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9 October, 2026 Latest

Top Takeaways from Is it time to switch off social media?

BBC cyber correspondent Joe Tidy chaired a discussion on whether the sensible response to social media is simply to leave it.

Top Takeaways from Is it time to switch off social media?
9 October, 2026 Latest

Top Takeaways from What did the 90s really do to us?

The conversation moved between politics, music, technology and nostalgia, and asked whether the 1990s deserve the reputation they have acquired.

Top Takeaways from What did the 90s really do to us?
8 October, 2026 Latest

Top Takeaways from Tasha Ghouri and Dame Evelyn Glennie

they talked about growing up in a world not built with them in mind, and about the difference between being accommodated and being included.

Top Takeaways from Tasha Ghouri and Dame Evelyn Glennie
8 October, 2026 Latest

Top Takeaways from Chris Packham, Dr Mya-Rose Craig and Juergen Maier CBE

The three approached it from activism, industry and public broadcasting respectively, and did not always agree on how much patience the situation could afford.

Top Takeaways from Chris Packham, Dr Mya-Rose Craig and Juergen Maier CBE
8 October, 2026 Insights

Five mornings, five conversations: LIFI26 on BBC Radio Leeds

Every morning of festival week, a different LIFI26 voice has joined Dixie on the BBC Radio Leeds Breakfast show to talk about the conversation happening at Leeds Playhouse that same night. Here's where to catch up.

Five mornings, five conversations: LIFI26 on BBC Radio Leeds
7 October, 2026 Latest

Top Takeaways from Elizabeth Day

Elizabeth Day, whose How to Fail podcast has spent the best part of a decade asking well known people what they got wrong, sat down with performance psychologist Jamil Qureshi to make the case that failure is not the opposite of success but a precondition for it.

Top Takeaways from Elizabeth Day
7 October, 2026 Latest

Top Takeaways from How do we talk about suicide?

BBC Scotland presenter Amy Irons chaired an evening that set out to talk plainly about a subject most of us tiptoe around.

Top Takeaways from How do we talk about suicide?
7 October, 2026 Latest

Top Takeaways from Louis Theroux

Louis Theroux opened LIFI26 in conversation with KISS Breakfast's Harriet Rose, reflecting on nearly three decades of documentaries about people most of us would cross the road to avoid.

Top Takeaways from Louis Theroux