In this first episode of a new season, we let novelist and podcaster Caroline O'Donoghue loose on TV's favourite family, dissecting what made them work so well for so long and wrestling with their legacy - both as complex, nuanced and often contradictory individual characters, and as a collective cultural force. 

Caroline is the author of four published novels including the immensely popular and excellent 'All Our Hidden Gifts' series - the second instalment of which is tearing up shelves in bookshops around the world right now. Buy and read those books, and listen to her bring her fathomless insight and insider perspective to the cartoon family that changed the way we think about cartoons, television, and life - The Simpsons.