How Do We Liberate People From Bad Ideas?
Rivkah Brown meets adrienne maree brown
One of America’s most energetic thinkers poses a crucial conundrum for all progressives.
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36: Should Being a Girlboss Earn Me a Break From Cleaning?
Ash and Moya wonder why women still shoulder the burden of housework and give advice to a listener dealing with a cheating ex.
Welcome to the Age of ‘Disaster Nationalism’
Richard Hames meets Richard Seymour
How far-right movements place the blame for real catastrophes on invented enemies.
35: Help! My Scatty Friends Can’t Meet My Standards
Moya has a theory about Main Character Syndrome while a listener asks how to cope with her impossibly high standards.
Understanding Hezbollah, Israel’s ‘Best Enemy’
Richard Hames meets Elia Ayoub
Elia Ayoub explains why Hezbollah is pivotal to the politics of the Middle East.
34: How Mean Can You Be to Other People’s Kids?
Ash and Moya lament the rise of trick or treating and consider how to interact with annoying children.
Trip 46: Death
Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn
Of all the unseen forces that shape human society, could death be the most powerful? The ACFM crew face the inevitable.
When Does a Crowd Become a Mob?
Eleanor Penny meets Dan Hancox
Received wisdom tells us that large groups of people are generally up to no good – but this is a convenient fantasy for the powers that be, explains the author of Multitudes: How Crowds Made the Modern World.
33: What Makes You Embarrassed to Be Leftwing?
Moya and Ash turn the weapon on themselves with a Mystery Question about the lows of being on the left.
This Is How the British State Is Trying to Crush the Palestine Movement
Richard Hames is joined by Simon Childs
For the past year, the British state has been waging its own war on the Palestine solidarity movement, attempting to silence protest while colluding with the Israeli war machine. Novara FM investigates.
32: What Makes a House a Home?
Inspired by Moya’s big move, Ash wonders how to achieve domestic bliss. Plus, a listener whose friend is infatuated with her lecturer.
Our New Cyberboss Overlords
Chal Ravens meets Craig Gent
Amazon, Uber and Deliveroo all depend on the power of algorithms to organise and control their employees. Can workers beat the cyberboss?
31: Why Isn’t My Best Friend Excited About My Wedding?
Has modern life killed off spontaneity in everything from dating to holidays?
30: Unbothered, Moisturised, Happy – and Ready for a Relationship?
Moya Lothian-McLean and Ash Sarkar
Moya comes to a big realisation about dating, plus a new batch of your Missed Connections.
Microdose: The Joy of Fascism
Jeremy Gilbert, Nadia Idle and Keir Milburn
A month after racist riots engulfed Britain, the ACFM crew ask why the Labour party chose not align itself with opponents of fascism.
Mourn the Dead, Fight Like Hell for the Living
Eleanor Penny meets Sarah Jaffe
In an era suffused with loss and grief, for the dead and the yet to be born, how do we politicise our mourning? Critic Sarah Jaffe talks about her search for the ghosts of capitalism in her new book, From The Ashes.
29: Has Therapyspeak Improved Our Lives?
Ash Sarkar & Moya Lothian-McLean
Does knowing your attachment style make life any easier? Plus advice for a listener who fears losing touch with family.
Motherhood In and Against the State
Rivkah Brown Meets Helen Charman
The relationship between mothers and the state is never anything but awkward – and often paradoxical, even violent. The author of a new political history of motherhood explains why.