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Jul 2024
1h 10m

24: Help! What’s my purpose in life?

Novara Media
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Moya and Ash butt heads over the lure of individualism and living a political life. Plus: Moya enters her busy-body era with a new segment, Missed Connections! Tell us about the brief encounters you just can’t shake, and we will hunt them down and make them bae.

Email us your missed connections with as much detail as you can recall, and send those – and your dilemmas – to ifispeak@novaramedia.com

Come and see If I Speak live at the London Podcast Festival on 15 September! Tickets available from Kings Place now.

Music by Matt Huxley.

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