Are there forms of power that can exert authority and achieve good things without domination? How about culture and its fabled 'soft power'? And we haven't even got started on its other big meaning, meaning energy ...

In 2024, FlipSide went head to head with various forms of power, brilliantly assisted by half a dozen wonderful guests from the worlds of performance, music, comedy, biography, place writing and investigative journalism. Whether it's about not taking sides at Sizewell with Will Atkins or taking the mickey out of government with Rosie Holt, inviting us to intrigue in the Stuart court with Lucy Hughes-Hallett or investigating government betrayals with Amelia Gentleman, you heard it at FlipSide, alongside composing for change with Errollyn Wallen and acting the activist with Toby Jones. 

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