1. How Reading Made Our Brains
2. How Reading Made Our Feelings
3. How Reading Made Our Politics
1. The Pursuit of Happiness
2. A More Perfect Union
3. Establishing Justice
4. Life and Liberty
Trailer
1. The Monroe Doctrine
2. The Truman Doctrine
3. The Nixon Doctrine
4. The Reagan Doctrine
5. The Bush Doctrine
Introducing The Trip
2. When the drugs take hold
3. Stranger things
4. Looking for a cure
5. Message in a bottle
6. Critical periods
7. Fascination and taboo
8. A tipping point?
9. Sacred plants for sale
10. Unknown unknowns
1. The Railwayman
2. Mutually assured exaggeration
3. That can’t be right
4. Well Done Geoffrey
5. Worry About the Detail Later
6. The Only Friend that Mattered
5 March 2026
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The story of how reading made us and what might happen if we stop - with James Marriott.
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