How do our fictional narratives interact with our real, lived experiences?

In our Inside CHF podcast, we invite you to engage with a big question, one that’s related to events and trends around you, at home or in your workplace.

In this podcast we’re exploring the basis of some of more powerful convictions–what we think about ourselves, others or our collective history.

Sometimes these beliefs are complicated by fictions–ones we create or discover we’re complicit in. To help stimulate your thinking, we share a few bite-size recordings from CHF’s media archive, including historian Helen Macdonald, author-turned-screenwriter Margot Lee Shetterly, and political scientist Eric Oliver.

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