The Turn in the Road

Let’s try this, as an opening claim: to be homeward bound is to have turned aside, to have left the big path, the one big path that was meant to lead to the future; no longer to be in service to its promises, and to ask what else is worth doing with the time we may have left.

The Great Humbling S4E6: ‘Nice to meet you’
by Ed Gillespie & Dougald Hine
July 26, 2022
After twenty-nine episodes recorded through screens and cameras, Ed and Dougald find themselves meeting for the first time and sit down for a conversation beside the mill pond in Loddon,Continue reading “The Great Humbling S4E6: ‘Nice to meet you’”
The Great Humbling S4E5: ‘Belief’
by Dougald Hine
June 1, 2022
Dougald poses a big question for this episode: what do we believe in? Ed responds playfully and paradoxically with ‘self-delusion’, citing Robert Trivers work on self-deceit that includes gay pornographyContinue reading “The Great Humbling S4E5: ‘Belief’”
The Great Humbling S4E4: ‘Are we going to talk about Ukraine?’
by Ed Gillespie & Dougald Hine
March 22, 2022
We started this podcast in the early weeks of the pandemic, talking about the stories circling around it. A crisis had come out of the corner of almost everyone’s field of vision and became, within weeks, the only thing in the news. Two years on, something similar has happened, so we arrived at this episode wondering whether or not to talk about Ukraine.

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