I Read the News Today, Oh Boy - a podcast by BBC Radio 4

A junk shop, a wooden chest, and some old newspapers from 1941 get Sarah Dunant pondering how we can deal with a world turned upside down.

"The last time the world shook", Sarah writes, "there was an element of learned resilience". But today, she believes, most of us don't have the benefit of that.

Producer: Adele Armstrong

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