We celebrate the ocassion of our 40th podcast with some moving and hilarious chat about baptism, the Pope, Six Degrees of Separation, dieting, Ed Balls, and sperm!

Plus: The Big Interview: Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, author of In Her Own Sweet Time tells us, among other things, how that sperm donation you made in 1995 might be calling you up and asking you to take him to a football match.