This week we launch a renewed Reed’s Between the Lines format with our brave intellectual guinea pig, Mr David Atkins, Senior Deputy Head. With almost no warning, he turns up armed with a fascinating, little-known corner of British political history from right on our doorstep: the Diggers of Cobham.

Was Cobham really the Bastille of the Home Counties? What can seventeenth-century proto-communists teach us about education today? And why do British revolutions so reliably fizzle before they spark?

Join us as we try out our new format — each week a guest brings the topic, we bring the curiosity. If you’ve got a story, obsession, or idea of your own and you’re in the neighbourhood, drop us a message: the only requirement is that you’re willing to come on the podcast and chat. See you there!