Reading our Times is back – and this series we’re getting metaphysical.  

We're going to be talking about the building blocks of life, the universe and reality, with scientists, philosophers, theologians and poets. 

We’ll be talking to Clare Carlisle about transcendence and Susan Greenfield about consciousness. We’ll talk to Philip Ball about how life really works And to physicist Paul Davies about the quantum world. 

To philosophers Graham Harman and Philip Goff about the nature of reality and the reality of purpose. To poet Michael Symmons Roberts about music and time and to theologian Gilbert Markus about whether God is Nothing.

So if you like books, you like ideas, you like thinking – and you want to go deeper, join Nick Spencer for Reading our Times coming soon.