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Why I Changed My Mind

Dominic Lawson interviews people who have changed their mind on controversial matters.

Radio 4,16 episodes

Episodes

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Series 4
Waney Squier
Waney Squier reveals the price she paid for changing her mind about shaken-baby syndrome.
15 Aug 2018,15 mins
Series 4
Manwar Ali
Manwar Ali reveals why he changed from violent Islamist fighter to anti-radical campaigner
08 Aug 2018,15 mins
Series 4
Samantha Kane
Sam Kane reveals why she has changed gender three times in the last twenty years.
01 Aug 2018,15 mins
Series 4
Gisela Stuart
Gisela Stuart reveals why she changed her mind on the EU and led the campaign for Brexit.
25 Jul 2018,15 mins
Series 3
Martin Padfield
A former Scientologist for 28 years tells why he quit what some see as a dangerous cult.
08 Nov 2017,15 mins
Series 3
Bill Browder
How Bill Browder's change of mind has made him Vladimir Putin's great enemy.
01 Nov 2017,15 mins
Series 3
Katharine Birbalsingh
Katharine Birbalsingh reveals why she declared Britain's state education system broken.
25 Oct 2017,15 mins
Series 3
Lord Carey
Former archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey explains his change of mind on assisted dying.
18 Oct 2017,15 mins
Series 2
Trevor Phillips
Dominic Lawson asks Trevor Phillips why he abandoned support for multiculturalism.
24 Apr 2016,30 mins
Series 2
Prof Edzard Ernst
Dominic Lawson asks Prof Edzard Ernst why he abandoned his belief in homeopathy.
27 Apr 2016,15 mins
Series 2
Prof Deirdre McCloskey
Dominic Lawson asks Prof Deirdre McCloskey why she changed politics, faith and gender.
11 May 2016,15 mins
Series 2
Sir Stephen Wall
Dominic Lawson asks Sir Stephen Wall why he abandoned his Catholic faith.
24 Apr 2016,15 mins
Series 2
Peter Hitchens
Dominic Lawson asks Peter Hitchens about his transition from Trotskyism to conservatism.
25 May 2016,15 mins
Series 1
Mark Lynas
Dominic Lawson asks the environmentalist Mark Lynas why he now supports GM crops.
04 Feb 2015,15 mins
Series 1
Tim Montgomerie
Dominic Lawson asks Tim Montgomerie why he now supports same-sex marriage.
11 Feb 2015,15 mins
Series 1
Sean O'Callaghan
Dominic Lawson asks Sean O'Callaghan about why he became an informer within the IRA.
18 Feb 2015,15 mins