Politics on the Couch
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Description
Politics on the Couch looks at the way our minds respond to politics and the way politicians mess with our minds. In each episode award-winning political columnist Rafael Behr is joined by a distinguished expert drawn from the world of politics, psychology or philosophy. The show will appeal to any listener interested in taking a deep dive into how psychology drives everyone's political thought and behaviour.
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Episodes (38)
Trapped! Democracy's struggle to cope with modern life and what we can do to help – a conversation with Professor Ben Ansell.
Kindness - a conversation about political empathy, its power and its limits, with Claudia Hammond
Contrarianism, social media and the future of culture wars - a conversation with Atlantic writer Helen Lewis
Populism, democracy and the parliamentary battle over Brexit
Party People - a stroll around the grassroots of democracy
The French Connection - myth and misunderstanding across the Channel
'The world's a stage' - politics and storytelling with James Graham
Procrastination - the politics of putting off hard choices and why it's so bad for democracy
'Putinophilia' - how America's radical right fell for a Kremlin strongman, a conversation with Anne Applebaum
'Bregret' - how is Britain coping with a Brexit that nobody loves?