Continuing our series of working lives from around the world, a baker from Mali lets us into his place of …
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A Working Day – Dressmaker, Ghana
Continuing our series on films about working life around the world: a dressmaker from Ghana allows us into her shop. …
On Being Hated
Being disliked by others is one of the most unavoidable but unpleasant realities: learning to cope without panic belongs at …
Alain de Botton on Romanticism
The ideology of Romanticism has been fatal to our chances of long-term happiness in modern relationships. Here, School of Life …
Sexual Non-Liberation
We pride ourselves on living in a sexually liberated age. But we haven’t in fact begun to know how to …
What is an Existential Crisis?
People often speak of going through an ‘existential crisis’; but what do they really mean by the term? And when …
PHILOSOPHY – Blaise Pascal
The French 17th century philosopher Blaise Pascal is one of the world’s great pessimists- with an unusual power to cheer …
LITERATURE – Gustave Flaubert
The great French 19th century novelist Gustave Flaubert understood tragedy, France, the bourgeoisie and laughter. If you like our films, …