This week we discuss how and why mental health has become a growing political issue. What are the differences in the way the political parties approach this problem? Is it something that unites or divides people across generations and classes? And what can politicians do to help us cope? Plus we talk about whether politics itself has become a more stressful job than it used to be. With Helen Thompson and Chris Brooke.
Conspiracy Theories and the Second Debate
Dilemmas of Brexit
The First Debate
Yuval Noah Harari
TALKING POLITICS
The Chilcot Report with Glen Rangwala
S02-EP15 It's Brexit! One week on.
The UK decides: it's Brexit!
S02-EP14 Indiana decides: it's Trump!
S02-EP 13 Paul Cartledge on democracy ancient and modern: what can we learn from Greeks?
S02-EP12 Anand Menon on how to sort fact from fiction in the EU referendum debate.
S02 - EP11 - John Judis on 'the emerging Democratic majority' and the perils of predicting where America might be heading.
S02-EP10 Jim Naughtie with his tales from the primary campaign trail
S02-EP09 Leading US polling analyst Sean Trende on what Trumpism really means for American democracy.
S02-EP08 Jeremy Cliffe of the Economist on Brexit, the future of the UK and the fate of David Cameron.
S02-EP07 Xenia Wickett on America's place in the world and what the world makes of this extraordinary election.
S02-EP06 David McWilliams on Ireland, talking bail-outs and the blame game.
S02-EP05 - Gary Gerstle on police power and paranoia in US politics, plus we talk Uganda.
S02-EP04 - Athene Donald on women in science, scientists in politics and why Britain needs to stay in Europe.
S02-EP03 - Bill Janeway on Silicon Valley, inequality and presidential politics in the age of Google.
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