Peace talks for the culture wars.
In an era of polarisation, propaganda and pile-ons, AntiSocial offers an alternative: understanding, facts, and respect. Each week, Adam Fleming takes on a topic that's generating conflict on social media, blogs, talk shows and phone-ins and helps you work out what the arguments are really about.
The battle against antisocial behaviour. "Share the journey, not the noise" - so says the government as it has launched new measures to prevent noise and antisocial behaviour on public transport. It's the latest in a long line of policies by governments of all hues against nuisance behaviours.
Is antisocial behaviour getting worse? Or are we becoming less tolerant? And do government policies to tackle it actually work?
Adam Fleming explores all this.
Presenter: Adam Fleming
Producers: John Murphy, Annabel Deas and Ellie House
Studio Manager: Jack Wilfan
Editor: Penny Murphy
20 Oct 2026
What will today's data say about us in the future?
We're drowning in data but what will be saved and what will be lost? And how will future researchers and historians remember us? Adam Fleming speaks to Professor Katrin Weller who leads one of Europe's biggest research data archives at the Leibnitz Institute for social sciences in Germany.
16 Oct 2026
Who writes our history?
Are there enough women writing history and being written about? The broadcaster Sandi Toksvig has announced she is launching an alternative to Wikipedia after claiming the site is "deeply biased". Along with the University of Cambridge, she hopes that her Mappa Mundi project will be an “interactive digital atlas where we can find a home for the vast amount of knowledge that is currently sidelined or deleted”.
Adam Fleming explores who writes history and how the present will be remembered in the future.
Presenter: Adam Fleming
Producers: John Murphy, Lucy Sheppard, Annabel Deas.
Studio Manager: Andrew Mills
Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison
Editor: Penny Murphy
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