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
The Right Side of History
Etonian Lives Matter... but not as much as they used to.
On Rapid Home Delivery
On lost souls... and mobile phones
The Sea at Christmas
A Sense of Home
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy
But Does it Matterhorn?
More Questions Than Answers
Annoying
The Child Question
The Eve of Destruction
Car Hatred
Two Small Scandals
Not in My Movie
Talking about Integration
In Praise of Mathematics
Suffer the Children
Little Amal
The Limits of Reason
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The Modern West
Global News Podcast
Friday Night Comedy from BBC Radio 4
The Infinite Monkey Cage
You’re Dead to Me
Elis James and John Robins