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The End of the Line

Published: Nov. 25, 2022, 9 p.m.

Adam Gopnik, recently recovered from his first bout of Covid, explores the profound impact of the pandemic on our whole belief system.

'Covid acted as a kind of universal solvent,' Adam writes, 'dissolving pretty much everyone's expectations of what could happen in the world'.

He looks in particular at the concept of \u2018trusting the science\u2019 and argues that \u2018science is not a transaction of faith but of accumulated confidence\u2019.

Producer: Adele Armstrong \nSound: Peter Bosher \nProduction coordinator: Iona Hammond\nEditor: Richard Fenton-Smith