Adam Gopnik warns of our tendency to normalise evil behaviour. What may pass for entertainment in Mafia movies, must be seen through a different lens in real life.
"The risk of crime is not crime alone, but the abyss that opens at our feet when once we have decided that the rules that count for other people don't count for us."
Producer: Sheila Cook Sound: Peter Bosher Production coordinator: Liam Morrey Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
Down with political packages
The Myth of Inevitability
The happiest days of your life...
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Who are you looking at?
A Change of Tack
September Anxiety
On Ghost Cities
Nature Red in Tooth and Claw
Against Theory
To the Bathroom!
The Vultures of Culture
Leaving Florence
British Populism and Brexit
The Language of Leaving
My People
Distributing Status
A Knight in Shining Armour?
Refugee Tales
Simply a Writer
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Global News Podcast
The Infinite Monkey Cage
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
You’re Dead to Me
Elis James and John Robins