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Sideways
Sideways
BBC Radio 4

Best-selling author Matthew Syed explores the ideas that shape our lives with stories of seeing the world differently.

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Episodes

66. One is a Whole

We all know the power of a great love story. In films, literature, television - a “happy ending” is shorthand... more

28 Aug 2024 · 28 minutes
65. Divergent Histories

In the 1960s and 70s, Maisie Barrett and Noel Gordon were two black British children wrongly labelled as “educationally subnormal”.... more

21 Aug 2024 · 28 minutes
64. The Masks We Wear

As a teenager, Raven Saunders dreamt of playing basketball, but their physique led them down a different path. Exceptional strength... more

14 Aug 2024 · 29 minutes
63. The Art of Unfinishing

Jen Simonic and Masey Kaplan have bonded over a mutual love for knitting for decades.In 2022, the pair of avid... more

07 Aug 2024 · 28 minutes
A New Frontier: 4. With the Gods

When astronauts journeyed to the moon in the early 1970s, few were paying attention to the psychological impact of the... more

31 Jul 2024 · 28 minutes
A New Frontier: 3. Life on Mars

Matthew Syed continues his four-part mini-series from Sideways examining the ethics of space exploration in a rapidly expanding era of... more

24 Jul 2024 · 28 minutes
A New Frontier: 2. For All Humankind?

Matthew Syed continues his four-part mini series exploring the ethics of space exploration, by returning to the origins of the... more

17 Jul 2024 · 29 minutes
A New Frontier: 1. A Message to Ourselves

In this special series from Sideways, called A New Frontier, Matthew Syed explores the most out of this world ethical... more

10 Jul 2024 · 28 minutes
Introducing – A New Frontier

Travel into the cosmos for a four-part series about the ethics of space exploration. Matthew Syed invites you to enter... more

03 Jul 2024 · 2 minutes
62. Lost and Found

In 1984, on the eve of the Winter Olympics, Joe Boylan gets lost in a blizzard on an Austrian mountainside.... more

27 Mar 2024 · 28 minutes
61. Brain Strain

In 1972, at the liberal Vassar College in New York, 18-year-old Rick Shenkman stood out for his unwavering support of... more

20 Mar 2024 · 29 minutes
60. For the love of maths

As a child, Kate Ertmann starred in commercials, in soap operas and on Broadway. But acting wasn’t her first love... more

13 Mar 2024 · 29 minutes
59. What's Your Name?

What's your name? You might think you know, but in this episode of Sideways, Matthew Syed discovers the answer could... more

06 Mar 2024 · 29 minutes
58. The Keeper of Lost Memories

In 2020, David Gutenmacher began to buy old photographs and videos that he came across in second hand shops. He... more

28 Feb 2024 · 29 minutes
57. Grudge Match

Lee and Drew have been like brothers ever since adolescence. So when Drew betrays Lee in the heat of a... more

21 Feb 2024 · 28 minutes
Sideways: Season nine - coming soon...

Matthew Syed kicks off the new season of Sideways with a story of one of the most brutal grudges ever... more

15 Feb 2024 · 1 minute
56. A Cinderella Story

On a summer's day in 1974, Norwegian actor Knut Risan steps up to the mic for a voiceover job. It's... more

06 Dec 2023 · 28 minutes
55. Perfectly Mediocre

Cornell University is known for it's elite a cappella scene. It was even the inspiration for the hit film Pitch... more

29 Nov 2023 · 28 minutes
54. Copy Cat

David Henty had a talent for art from a young age. He grew up poring over Hogarth drawings. For a... more

22 Nov 2023 · 28 minutes
53. Stories of a Father

Violinist and composer Diana Yukawa lost her father, Akihisa Yukawa, in the Japan Air Lines Flight 123 plane crash of... more

15 Nov 2023 · 28 minutes
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Violinist and composer Diana Yukawa lost her father, Akihisa Yukawa, in the Japan Air Lines Flight 123 plane crash of August 1985.... more