The Narratologist

Some of the most popular narratives at any time are terrible. They are easily disproven, discredited, disrupted. They are, in a word, thin.

Real facts about UK immigration. They're not what you think.

Small boats keep arriving from across the English Channel. But what are the facts? And what do they mean?

An entire community was wiped out in 1921. The cause was someone stumbling. It's unbelievable, but humans, spurred by the force of narrative, are capable of doing unbelievable things.

Can Israel commit genocide? Is that something we can allow in your imaginations? How do we live in a world where we remember the Holocaust yet understand the present?

How can we lose if we win? What does winning even mean? A journey back 83 years can help us to understand..

Luck doesn't exist. Not the way we think it does. Most luck is an illusion. So, what is really happening?

If there's one thing that keeps catching me off guard in life, it's how little I know. There is ALWAYS more to learn. Even about things I've been doing for years. Like teaching, which I've been doing for 18. And composing, which I've been doing for over 30.

So much more...

There are mugs you can get in the UK that all say some variation of "Keep Calm and Carry On". But what if - maybe - we shouldn't keep on? What if we should freak out?

If there are times worth freaking out over, how do we decide as a society that the time is now? And is the time, you know... now?

What makes groups of people do bad things? It's not as complicated as you might think. And it's not about being bad, or immoral. It's actually about having a strong sense of justice. And it's how doing bad things affects our brains and our bodies.

Listen to find out more.