This week, Charles Foster explores how psychedelic drugs are changing lives; and Alan Jenkins on the lure of the open seas.

'Ten Trips: The new reality of psychedelics', by Andy Mitchell

'Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a

guide from the expert', by David Nutt

'I feel love: MDMA and the quest for connection in a fractured world',

by Rachel Nuwer

'Psychonauts: Drugs and the making of the modern mind', by Mike Jay

'Sailing Alone: A history', by Richard J King

Produced by Charlotte Pardy

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This week David talks to the political scientist Mike Kenny about the possible fate of the United Kingdom. What makes the UK such an unusual political arrangement? How has it managed to hold together through war, economic decline, Brexit, Covid? What still threatens to break it apart?

Mike Kenny’s new book is Fractured Union: Politics, Sovereignty and the Fight to Save the UK

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