Episodes

  • ACFM Trip 58: Boredom

    ACFM Trip 58: Boredom
    Mar 29 2026
    When was the last time you were bored? Nadia, Jem and Keir wonder if ennui is a feeling that belongs in the past – and what a boredom-free life might be missing. Is compulsive scrolling a modern symptom of boredom? Why are spiritual practices often based around tedious repetition? Do bored workers make better organisers? What […]
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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • ACFM Microdose: The Green Party

    ACFM Microdose: The Green Party
    Mar 8 2026
    [Audio error updated! Please refresh or re-download if correct episode isn’t playing.] Have the Greens got what it takes to become the main political vehicle of the radical left? Following their Trip episode on Ecology, the ACFM crew take a closer look at Zack Polanski’s party as it nudges past Labour in the polls. From […]
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    1 hr and 58 mins
  • ACFM Trip 57: Ecology

    ACFM Trip 57: Ecology
    Feb 22 2026
    Are humans distinct from nature? Are there natural limits to inequality? Can you have action without effort? Do bacteria have agency? Jem, Nadia and Keir find themselves dwarfed by the concept of ecology in this planetary-scale episode, which touches on cybernetics, systems thinking, ecofeminism and actor-network theory. Their ACFM guide to ecological thinking includes ideas […]
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    2 hrs and 9 mins
  • ACFM Microdose: The ‘Radical Realists’ of Mainstream, Labour’s New Faction

    ACFM Microdose: The ‘Radical Realists’ of Mainstream, Labour’s New Faction
    Dec 21 2025
    After a Trip episode about the meaning of mainstream, this time the gang go deeper into ‘Mainstream’ – that is, the new soft-left faction inside Labour. Yes, a festive episode about the inner workings of a political party! Don’t say we don’t spoil you. Jem, Nadia and Keir explain the emergence of Mainstream’s ‘radical realists’ […]
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    1 hr and 34 mins
  • ACFM Trip 56: The Mainstream

    ACFM Trip 56: The Mainstream
    Dec 7 2025
    Jem, Nadia and Keir debate the meaning of ‘mainstream’ – something none of them could ever possibly be, of course. Is ‘woke’ the new mainstream? Can there be a mainstream if we don’t all have access to the same culture? Is Tommy Robinson shifting the Overton Window? Why is nonconformity associated with coolness? And who engineers […]
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    1 hr and 54 mins
  • ACFM Microdose: What’s Going On With Your Party?

    ACFM Microdose: What’s Going On With Your Party?
    Nov 2 2025
    After last week’s episode on Parties, this time ACFM exposes the predicament facing Your Party, the new leftwing faction led by Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn. What expectations do leftwing voters have for Your Party? Does the Corbyn faction distrust the membership? Is Zarah a politician or a poster? And does ‘Yorp’ stand a chance […]
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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • ACFM Trip 55: Parties

    ACFM Trip 55: Parties
    Oct 19 2025
    Amid the bumpy launch of a new left-wing party and the rise of the Greens and Reform, the ACFM crew turn their attention to parties. Do we still need them? Do parties work by drawing people together, or by excluding the uninvited? And should a political party have anything in common with a dance party? […]
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    1 hr and 51 mins
  • ACFM Microdose: Sci-Fi

    ACFM Microdose: Sci-Fi
    Sep 28 2025
    After last week’s ACFM Trip to the Future, Jem and Keir reconvene to talk about science fiction. Is sci-fi a reaction to the “time-space compression” of the present? Is it inherently progressive? How did dystopian and paranoids visions of the future come to dominate sci-fi? Was Arthur C. Clarke an early acid communist? Find all […]
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    1 hr and 59 mins