After returning from a short break, Joe is joined by philosophy professor Robert Stern (University of Sheffield), to explore notions of hope in the 2009 film, The Road.

Robert's related reading:

• Béatrice Han-Pile & Robert Stern, ‘Is Hope a Secular Virtue? Hope as the Virtue of the Possible'
• Béatrice Han-Pile, Robert Stern & Judith Wolfe, 'In Our Time: Hope'

Music by Nathan Moseley.