"Landscape made us', writes Sara Wheeler, 'and now, in the dying phase of our divorce from our environment, we are unmaking the landscape'. Sara discusses the importance of place names in linking us to the land. Producer: Adele Armstrong

Tom Shakespeare explains why he can't get enough of University Challenge.Starter for ten, picture round and music round.....it's all here! But thirty-five years after he first appeared on the show, he asks if Britain is a better country. Producer: Adele Armstrong

AL Kennedy attempts to work out why, and how, everything these days seems to annoy us. But, she says, it's up to us to resist the work of 'the crisis engineers, political extremists and paid agents who turned up our emotional thermostat'. Producer: Adele Armstrong

Zoe Strimpel on the difficulty of deciding whether to have, or not have, children. She describes the 'paralysis of ambivalence'. But this ambivalence is surely, she writes, 'a natural response to the idea of setting in train the most unknowable outcome on earth'.Producer: Adele Armstrong

Sarah Dunant argues that if we can't agree on wearing masks in a crowded space, this doesn't bode well for our ability to adapt to the monumental changes we'll soon have to make to avert the climate crisis. She reports from the Italian city of Mantova where she finds a rather un-Italian attitude to all of this. Producer: Adele Armstrong

Will Self argues that the car is anything but a source of freedom. While drivers think it gives them the ability to go anywhere, in truth 'they're shackled to a grotesque and Sisyphean go-round: they have to make the money, to pay for the car, to sit in the traffic jam, to make the money to pay for the car'.Producer: Adele Armstrong

"Who owns a story?" asks Adam Gopnik. "The storyteller? The subject? Or do all stories in some sense own themselves?" Adam explores the drama being played out in the US in two stories of feuding writers, caught up in the ethics of artistic appropriation. Producer: Adele Armstrong

"In the 1880s," writes Sara Wheeler, "the scientific community began to recognise and categorise neurodiversity." We've come a long way since then, she says. But there's a long way to go. And as neurological research presses on, she argues that we, as a society, must try to keep up with its findings. Producer: Adele Armstrong

David Goodhart discusses why integration is a permanent dilemma for multi-ethnic societies. And he wonders whether, "if there is no solution to the issues that it throws up, then not talking about it much might be a rational strategy".Or, he asks, is that too complacent?Producer: Adele Armstrong

"Tomorrow's world," writes Zia Haider Rahman, "will be shaped still more by finance, tech, and the minds of the mathematically disposed." He argues that we ignore maths at our peril. Producer: Adele Armstrong