At home with John Sergeant

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• Episode 1 – staying at home – a strange kind of heroism
• Episode 2 – the impact of social distancing on Ealing
• Episode 3 – the gift of talking to strangers
• Episode 4 – recollections of a young Boris Johnson
• Episode 5 – language – inadequate and reductive or a crucial weapon?
• Episode 6 – from blue tits in the garden to the leader of the free world
• Episode 7 – how does communication determine what we think and do?
• Episode 8 – stories to tell – a chance encounter with Winston Churchill
• Episode 9 – the New Normal – how are we meant to behave as we emerge from hibernation?
• Episode 10 – the lessons of time – predicting the future based on the past
• Episode 11 – as lockdown eases, John reflects on his experiences as a travel journalist
• Episode 12 – how can you tell when a politician is confused? When they’re talking about the coronavirus
• Episode 13 – cometh the hour, cometh the internet
• Episode 14 – the only thing we have to fear...
• Episode 15 – the eerie experience of venturing out after lockdown
• Episode 16 – maritime poems and sagas of the sea
• Episode 17 – Cornish smugglers, pirates and the exile of Napoleon