This week, Kate Hext on women who have run or climbed their way through the world, despite efforts to stop them; and Alice Robb thinks about how - and why - we tell stories through dance.

'In Her Nature: How Women Break Boundaries in the Great Outdoors', by Rachel Hewitt

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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This week David talks to American historian Gary Gerstle about the shape-shifting journey of the US Republican Party, from the Civil War to the battles of today. How did the party of the North become the party of the South? When did the war party lose its appetite for war? Why does an organisation born out of anti-Catholicism now see its mission as to get Catholics onto the Supreme Court? And what could finally break the party apart?

Gary Gerstle’s latest book is The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order.

For more on the Great Abortion Switcheroo of the 1970s.

Listen again to David’s episode on Hume and American default.

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