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Howard Jacobson on why Israelis and Palestinians are "locked in an embrace of mutually exclusive optimisms". Show more

Welsh poet and playwright Gillian Clarke first saw a red kite in the Welsh mountains as a child, a bird which now has recovered and now Gillian regularly sees them over Reading. Show more

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Matthew Bannister on thinker Edward De Bono, businessman Paul Van Doren, banker Alastair Hanton, ballerina Violetta Elvin. Show more

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Carolyn Quinn's guests are the Conservative backbencher Miriam Cates; Labour Chair of the BEIS Select Committee, Darren Jones; Lib Dem Sarah Olney; plus the Spectator's Katy Balls. Show more

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