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Caitlin Moran on How to Be Hopeful
Episode 591
Friday, 30 October, 2026
It can be hard to imagine a better future when the present feels so uncertain. From climate anxiety and political polarisation to endless bad news and online arguments, it’s easy to feel that the world is getting worse – and that there’s little we can do about it. So how do we find our way back to hope? Bestselling author, journalist and broadcaster Caitlin Moran joins us for a Between the Lines conversation about her new book, How to Be Hopeful – a funny, candid and deeply personal exploration of what it means to choose hope when the world gives us plenty of reasons not to.After reaching what she calls “peak despair”, Moran set herself a challenge: could she stay in the same house, the same neighbourhood and the same messy modern world, and still find a way to make things better?Rather than trying to escape it all, she embarked on a year-long experiment in everyday action. She stepped back from the noise of social media and rolling news, reconnected with her community, picked litter, donated blood, rewilded her garden and began asking where our modern anxiety comes from – and what we can actually do about it.How to Be Hopeful is the story of what happened next, and of Moran’s discovery that hope isn’t simply something we wait to feel. It can be something we practise – through attention, connection, community and small acts that make a difference.Join Caitlin Moran live at the Royal Society of Arts for a timely conversation about finding hope – and acting on it – when the future feels uncertain. With her trademark wit and honesty, she asks a deceptively simple question: what might it mean not just to feel hopeful, but to do hopeful? Speaker: Caitlin Moran, Journalist and BroadcasterChair: Zoe Williams, Journalist and Author Donate to the RSA: https://thersa.co/3ZyPOEaBecome an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueembFollow RSA on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thersaorg/Like RSA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theRSAorg/Listen to RSA Events podcasts: https://bit.ly/35EyQYUJoin our Fellowship: https://www.thersa.org/fellowship/join
