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Norman
 Oct 3, 2019
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Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday


Episode Date
Rise and fall of the political fixer
Nov 18, 2024
Sex and Christianity
Nov 11, 2024
Ancient crafts: feathers, leather and thatch
Nov 04, 2024
Female ambition and control
Oct 28, 2024
A duty of care
Oct 21, 2024
From Sapiens to AI
Oct 14, 2024
Oceans and the game of evolution
Oct 07, 2024
Ancient India and China: from golden to silk roads
Sep 30, 2024
Chance and fortune
Sep 23, 2024
On Freedom
Sep 16, 2024
Weaving magic in words, clay and paper
Jul 01, 2024
Animal communication
Jun 24, 2024
Politeness and civility
Jun 17, 2024
‘Left behind’, but not forgotten
Jun 10, 2024
Hay Festival: ancient wisdom and ecology
Jun 03, 2024
Reading the Bible
May 27, 2024
Art: market, money and malfeasance
May 20, 2024
Bees – culture and survival
May 13, 2024
Protest and patriotism
May 06, 2024
Alien life and gravity
Apr 29, 2024
City living
Apr 22, 2024
Power to the people
Apr 15, 2024
Music and poetry
Apr 08, 2024
The war between science and religion
Apr 01, 2024
Crossing borders and belonging
Mar 25, 2024
Intrigue and disinformation from the Russian Revolution to Ukraine invasion
Mar 18, 2024
Time passing: ageing, memory and nostalgia
Mar 11, 2024
Mysterious Plants
Mar 04, 2024
Weighty issues
Feb 26, 2024
Arts: changing the world?
Feb 19, 2024
Global influences
Feb 12, 2024
Opium trade to synthetic opiates
Feb 05, 2024
Made out of glass
Jan 29, 2024
War crimes justice
Jan 22, 2024
Climate resolutions
Jan 15, 2024
A century of Labour
Jan 08, 2024
AI, states and corporations
Dec 18, 2023
Small states: global impact and survival
Dec 11, 2023
Playing games
Dec 04, 2023
Space – the human story
Nov 27, 2023
Monet and machine vision
Nov 20, 2023
Music – from page to performance
Nov 13, 2023
China – its poetry and economy
Nov 06, 2023
Soundtrack to life
Oct 30, 2023
Infected blood - from scandal to inquiry
Oct 23, 2023
Unruly bodies
Oct 16, 2023
Israel
Oct 09, 2023
The Iliad and the right to rule
Oct 02, 2023
Contains Strong Language Festival in Leeds
Sep 25, 2023
Homo Sapiens +/-
Sep 18, 2023
The NHS at 75
Jul 03, 2023
Materials that shape our world
Jun 26, 2023
Sums, stories and musical scores
Jun 19, 2023
Hacking and cybercrime
Jun 12, 2023
Allergies and the Microbiome
Jun 05, 2023
Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century
May 29, 2023
Birds and moths
May 22, 2023
Virtuous bankers?
May 15, 2023
Monster artist/monstrous art?
May 08, 2023
Life behind the iron curtain
May 01, 2023
Ancient trees
Apr 24, 2023
A place called home
Apr 17, 2023
Ai Weiwei and design values
Apr 10, 2023
Mastering a new skill
Apr 03, 2023
Climate - past, present and future
Mar 27, 2023
Humanism - what is it good for?
Mar 20, 2023
George Eliot and married life
Mar 13, 2023
The Iraq War – 20 years on
Mar 06, 2023
Democratic capitalism – marriage on the rocks
Feb 27, 2023
Ancient knowledge
Feb 20, 2023
The food we eat
Feb 13, 2023
Power, violence and witches
Feb 06, 2023
The Victims of War
Jan 30, 2023
Videogames – from fantasy to reality
Jan 23, 2023
The view from Latin America
Jan 16, 2023
Where are you from?
Jan 09, 2023
Awesome
Dec 26, 2022
Dance Pioneers
Dec 19, 2022
Listening in the dark
Dec 12, 2022
Returning to the moon
Dec 05, 2022
Faith: lost in translation?
Nov 28, 2022
Taking a stand
Nov 21, 2022
Perfect skin
Nov 14, 2022
The authentic taste of Britain
Nov 07, 2022
Building the Body, Opening the Heart
Oct 31, 2022
Zombies, exiles and monsters
Oct 24, 2022
Black Britain and beyond
Oct 17, 2022
Power plays and family dynamics
Oct 10, 2022
Political leadership and oversight
Oct 03, 2022
Bradford - Brave New World
Sep 26, 2022
Birmingham
Sep 12, 2022
Health, sickness and exploitation
Jun 27, 2022
Justice, war crimes and targeted killings
Jun 20, 2022
Social inequality - up close
Jun 13, 2022
A revolution in food and farming
Jun 06, 2022
Family drama at Hay Festival
May 30, 2022
Learning from apes, fish and wasps
May 23, 2022
The body clock and sleep
May 16, 2022
Marwa Al-Sabouni - Rebuilding with hope
May 09, 2022
Curiosity, ingenuity and experimentation
May 02, 2022
The age of the strongman leader
Apr 25, 2022
NoViolet Bulawayo on Glory
Apr 18, 2022
Love poetry; love books
Apr 11, 2022
Resistance
Apr 04, 2022
Liberalism in crisis
Mar 28, 2022
Welsh identities
Mar 21, 2022
Feathered friends
Mar 14, 2022
Creating art; reflecting life
Mar 07, 2022
Post-war/post-Covid
Feb 28, 2022
Wealth, influence and the global elite
Feb 21, 2022
Stonehenge, and conserving the future
Feb 14, 2022
The Georgians
Feb 07, 2022
Bullish masculinity
Jan 31, 2022
Modernism
Jan 24, 2022
Old battles, new warfare
Jan 17, 2022
Finding consolation and community in reading
Jan 10, 2022
Vaccinate, ventilate and breathe
Dec 27, 2021
A musical journey – from the mountains to the multi-storey
Dec 20, 2021
Living in the Matrix
Dec 13, 2021
Witches
Dec 06, 2021
Levelling up; halting decline
Nov 29, 2021
Christianity: Changing Fortunes
Nov 22, 2021
Ancient lives and legacies in Latin America
Nov 15, 2021
Internet influencers and generation gaps
Nov 08, 2021
Ai Weiwei on creative freedom
Nov 01, 2021
Working the land - Orwell and HG Wells
Oct 25, 2021
Rationality in an Irrational Age
Oct 18, 2021
Views from across the water
Oct 11, 2021
Images of power
Oct 04, 2021
Colm Tóibín on Thomas Mann
Sep 27, 2021
Climate activism: the next generation
Sep 20, 2021
Life in the first person
Sep 13, 2021
Ali Smith
Jun 28, 2021
Jackie Kay on Bessie Smith
Jun 21, 2021
London - villain and victim?
Jun 14, 2021
Lionel Shriver on life and death decisions
Jun 07, 2021
DH Lawrence: life and work
May 31, 2021
On Thin Ice: Glaciers, Geopolitics, and Nature's Goods
May 24, 2021
Daniel Kahneman on 'noisy' human judgement
May 17, 2021
The opioid crisis and erosion of trust
May 10, 2021
Art - plunder, power and prestige
May 03, 2021
Personal faith and the Church
Apr 26, 2021
What if the Incas had colonised Europe?
Apr 19, 2021
Nuclear destruction
Apr 12, 2021
Defining mental illness
Apr 05, 2021
Trade deals and human rights – in Africa and China
Mar 29, 2021
Newton: science and worldly riches
Mar 22, 2021
Rights and responsibilities
Mar 15, 2021
Understanding Melancholy
Mar 08, 2021
Monsters of the deep
Mar 01, 2021
Family struggles - from Greek tragedy to The Troubles
Feb 22, 2021
Living online and IRL
Feb 15, 2021
Empire and class, shaping Britain
Feb 08, 2021
The fall of Maxwell – the end of an era.
Feb 01, 2021
Mariana Mazzucato on moonshot economics
Jan 25, 2021
Francis Bacon revealed
Jan 18, 2021
Scotland and the Union
Jan 11, 2021
Nicholas Hytner
Dec 28, 2020
Thomas Becket and the rift between church and state
Dec 21, 2020
Inspiring awe – from the heavens to the oceans
Dec 14, 2020
Laughter
Dec 07, 2020
Human ingenuity and shared inheritance
Nov 30, 2020
Derrida, Woolf, and the pleasure of reading
Nov 23, 2020
Landscapes real and imagined
Nov 16, 2020
Physics in all its glory
Nov 09, 2020
Great women of the classics
Nov 02, 2020
China and the global order
Oct 26, 2020
Fake news and data lies: how to win an election
Oct 19, 2020
Care and compassion
Oct 12, 2020
Contested histories
Oct 05, 2020
Faith in the modern world
Sep 28, 2020
Claudia Rankine and Margaret Atwood
Sep 21, 2020
The Radical Agenda
Sep 14, 2020
Meritocracy and inequality
Sep 07, 2020
Nature notes, from farming to fungi
Aug 31, 2020
Brit Bennett on race, identity and protest
Jun 29, 2020
James Joyce
Jun 15, 2020
Our coercive politics
Jun 08, 2020
The Future
Jun 01, 2020
Classics and class
May 25, 2020
Richard Ford, writing from the edges
May 18, 2020
Art in an emergency
May 11, 2020
Globalisation
May 04, 2020
Changing behaviour, from bystander to actor
Apr 27, 2020
Crisis in Europe from Notre-Dame to coronavirus
Apr 20, 2020
Nature worship
Apr 13, 2020
The genetic gender gap
Apr 06, 2020
Rebuilding conservatism in changing times
Mar 30, 2020
Famous and Infamous
Mar 23, 2020
Cultural icons from Shakespeare to Superman
Mar 16, 2020
Morality, money and power
Mar 09, 2020
Hilary Mantel
Mar 02, 2020
Leila Slimani on Sexual Politics
Feb 24, 2020
Love of home
Feb 17, 2020
Dresden - 75 years on
Feb 10, 2020
Artistic influence: Beethoven, Rembrandt and MeToo
Feb 03, 2020
Grayson Perry - the early years
Jan 27, 2020
Puritans and God-given government
Jan 20, 2020
No work, rest and play
Jan 13, 2020
A house and a home
Jan 06, 2020
Westminster Abbey
Dec 23, 2019
Numbers, nightmares and nanotech
Dec 16, 2019
Living near water
Dec 09, 2019
India past and present
Dec 02, 2019
Love and unreason
Nov 25, 2019
Life, death and taxes
Nov 18, 2019
Animals and us
Nov 11, 2019
Nobel Prize winner Esther Duflo
Nov 04, 2019
The artist - warts and all
Oct 28, 2019
Breaking bread together
Oct 21, 2019
Global culture
Oct 14, 2019
Lenny Henry
Oct 07, 2019
Where is power now?
Sep 30, 2019
Antony Gormley: challenging conventions
Sep 23, 2019
Escaping the past
Sep 16, 2019
Epic quests and Greek myths
Jul 01, 2019
The power of poetry
Jun 24, 2019
Money - in your pocket and in the bank
Jun 17, 2019
Beyond the headlines
Jun 10, 2019
Jared Diamond on national crisis
Jun 03, 2019
Hay Festival
May 27, 2019
Medical controversies
May 20, 2019
Billy Bragg on anger and hope
May 13, 2019
Icons of English literature
May 06, 2019
Freedom: From Kierkegaard to Black Lives Matter
Apr 29, 2019
Life in the wilderness
Apr 22, 2019
Ian McEwan
Apr 15, 2019
Ageing visibly
Apr 08, 2019
Free Thinking Festival
Apr 01, 2019
Art for all
Mar 25, 2019
Understanding China
Mar 18, 2019
The battle against so-called Islamic State
Mar 11, 2019
Language and Culture
Mar 04, 2019
Populations and contested lands
Feb 25, 2019
The Eye of the Beholder
Feb 18, 2019
The mind unravelling
Feb 11, 2019
Who is watching you?
Feb 04, 2019
The health of science
Jan 28, 2019
Art, truth and power
Jan 21, 2019
Violence and Conflict
Jan 14, 2019
Searching for happiness
Jan 07, 2019
Ice and Snow
Dec 24, 2018
National myths with Neil MacGregor
Dec 17, 2018
Trees: a wood wide web
Dec 10, 2018
Power in Politics
Dec 03, 2018
How the World Thinks
Nov 26, 2018
Safe spaces and snowflakes
Nov 19, 2018
Poland: A hundred years of history
Nov 12, 2018
Reporting from the Front Line
Nov 05, 2018
That's not fair
Nov 05, 2018
Pirates
Oct 22, 2018
Identity Politics
Oct 15, 2018
What's Your Type?
Oct 08, 2018
Yuval Noah Harari
Oct 01, 2018
From Ubermensch to Superman
Sep 24, 2018
David Attenborough: Life on Earth and Beyond
Sep 17, 2018
The Reality of War
Sep 10, 2018
Storytelling at the Edinburgh Festivals
Aug 27, 2018
British culture and European influence
Jul 02, 2018
Shame, Status and Self-invention
Jun 25, 2018
Deserts and the Nuclear Age
Jun 18, 2018
Altered Minds
Jun 11, 2018
Arundhati Roy on castes and outcasts
Jun 04, 2018
Survival and Destruction
May 28, 2018
Dark Satanic Mills
May 21, 2018
Jordan Peterson: Rules for Life
May 14, 2018
The Death of Democracy
May 07, 2018
Mysteries of the Universe
Apr 30, 2018
Life Is a Dream
Apr 23, 2018
1968: Radicals and Riots
Apr 16, 2018
The Good Samaritan
Apr 09, 2018
Faith and Doubt
Apr 02, 2018
Love and Loss
Mar 26, 2018
In Praise of Passion
Mar 19, 2018
Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead
Mar 12, 2018
Art and Civilisations
Mar 05, 2018
Who Am I? The Brain and Personality
Feb 26, 2018
Fascism and the Enlightenment with Steven Pinker
Feb 19, 2018
Rise and Fall of the City
Feb 12, 2018
Money Makes the World Go Around
Feb 05, 2018
Mohsin Hamid on leaving home
Jan 29, 2018
The Power of Art
Jan 22, 2018
Peter Carey on legacies of the past
Jan 15, 2018
Votes for Women
Jan 08, 2018
Who governs Britain?
Dec 18, 2017
The power and beauty of objects.
Dec 11, 2017
Russia, religion and the Middle East
Dec 04, 2017
Finland at 100
Nov 27, 2017
Blood, guts and swearing robots
Nov 20, 2017
Anger and deprivation
Nov 13, 2017
Heart of Darkness: Conrad and Orwell
Nov 06, 2017
Animals: tamed, exploited and resurrected
Oct 30, 2017
Living with the Gods
Oct 23, 2017
The End of War?
Oct 16, 2017
Russian Revolution a hundred years on
Oct 09, 2017
Power, the People and the Party
Oct 02, 2017
Hard work and sweet slumber
Sep 25, 2017
Orhan Pamuk on competing myths
Sep 18, 2017
Les Misérables: novel of the century?
Aug 22, 2017
From Darwin to Big Data with Richard Dawkins
Jul 03, 2017
Power: Fleet Street and Whitehall
Jun 26, 2017
Health Inequality: TB, Trauma and Technology
Jun 19, 2017
Crossing the Boundaries of Gender, Race and Class
Jun 12, 2017
Inventing the Self: Fact and Fiction
Jun 05, 2017
Live from the Hay Festival
May 29, 2017
India's Rise?
May 22, 2017
Post-Truth and Revolution
May 15, 2017
Kate Tempest: Everyday Epic
May 08, 2017
Wendell Berry: The Natural World
May 02, 2017
Eliza Carthy and Nicholas Hytner: Art for All
Apr 24, 2017
The Age of Spectacle?
Apr 17, 2017
Christianity: Luther's Legacy
Apr 10, 2017
Dissecting Death
Apr 03, 2017
Sayeeda Warsi: Muslims in Britain
Mar 27, 2017
The Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead
Mar 20, 2017
Britain Divided: 1642-2016
Mar 13, 2017
Paul Auster and the American Dream
Mar 06, 2017
'Build That Wall': Barriers and Crossings
Feb 27, 2017
Sidney Nolan: Life and Work
Feb 20, 2017
Play and Creativity
Feb 13, 2017
Paul Abbott: finding comedy in the tragic
Feb 06, 2017
Turkey: Past and Present
Jan 30, 2017
Sara Khan: The Battle within Islam
Jan 16, 2017
Chibundu Onuzo and Martin Sixsmith on corruption and family drama
Jan 09, 2017
Maps, Music and Medieval Manuscripts
Dec 26, 2016
Scientific Discoveries: from the mind to the cosmos
Dec 19, 2016
The Bolshoi and Culture Wars
Dec 12, 2016
Popular Protest and Patriotism
Dec 05, 2016
AIDS Activism and Surviving a Plague
Nov 28, 2016
Rewriting the Past: from Empire to ivory
Nov 21, 2016
Island Mentality
Nov 14, 2016
Virtue and Vice
Nov 07, 2016
Alan Bennett
Oct 31, 2016
Microbes, Genes and Human Endeavour
Oct 24, 2016
Soldiering on: the British Army, Lenin and Putin
Oct 04, 2016
Radical Liverpool
Sep 26, 2016
Political Drama: Robert Harris and Margaret Hodge
Sep 19, 2016
Love, Loss and Scandal
Jul 04, 2016
Food: From Bread Riots to Obesity
Jun 27, 2016
A Theory of Everything?
Jun 20, 2016
New Artistic Director of the ENO, Daniel Kramer
Jun 13, 2016
Genes: Our medical inheritance
Jun 06, 2016
Hay Festival: Spooks, war and genocide
May 30, 2016
Lost and Found: Ancient Egypt to Modern Art
May 23, 2016
World on the Move
May 16, 2016
Technology in Education
May 09, 2016
Cross-dressing and masculinity with Grayson Perry
May 02, 2016
Anish Kapoor on Light and Dark
Apr 25, 2016
Reporting War and Conflict
Apr 18, 2016
Loneliness and Inner Voices
Apr 11, 2016
Greece and the Eurozone with Yanis Varoufakis
Apr 04, 2016
Existentialism and Ways of Seeing
Mar 28, 2016
Is Faster Better?
Mar 21, 2016
The Easter Rising: 100 Years On
Mar 14, 2016
Scotland
Mar 07, 2016
Nature or Nurture?
Feb 29, 2016
Future Economies
Feb 22, 2016
Who Owns Culture?
Feb 15, 2016
Mind and Body
Feb 08, 2016
Language and Reinvention
Feb 01, 2016
Migration and Citizenship
Jan 25, 2016
Alaa Al Aswany on Egypt
Jan 18, 2016
Russia: Tsars to Putin
Jan 11, 2016
Shakespeare's Late Plays - recorded at the Globe's Playhouse
Dec 28, 2015
Space Survival and Exploration
Dec 21, 2015
Cultural Lifespans
Dec 14, 2015
Reforming Saudi Arabia
Dec 07, 2015
Augustine, Desire, Doing good
Nov 30, 2015
Jonathan Coe on Satire
Nov 23, 2015
France Special
Nov 16, 2015
Claudia Rankine at the Free Thinking Festival
Nov 09, 2015
Embracing Failure and Uncertainty
Nov 02, 2015
Social Class and Cultural Capital
Oct 26, 2015
Power and Corruption with Stephen Frears and Mary Beard
Oct 19, 2015
Kissinger
Oct 12, 2015
Jonathan Franzen
Oct 05, 2015
Celts and Romans
Sep 28, 2015
Edmund de Waal on Porcelain
Sep 21, 2015
Harmony and Balance
Jul 06, 2015
Alan Watts and the Way of Translation
Jun 29, 2015
Architecture and power - from Stalinist structures to model villages
Jun 22, 2015
The Value of Art with Grayson Perry and Hannah Rothschild
Jun 15, 2015
Illness: Psychosomatic and Physical
Jun 08, 2015
Saul Bellow and Finding a Voice
Jun 01, 2015
Hay Festival
May 27, 2015
Joseph Stiglitz and Steve Hilton on Inequality
May 18, 2015
Values from Ancient Greece to Contemporary Harlem
May 11, 2015
Vikram Seth
May 04, 2015
Violence
Apr 27, 2015
Life Underwater
Apr 21, 2015
David Sloan Wilson on Altruism
Apr 13, 2015
The Amazons
Apr 06, 2015
Lewis Carroll and the Story of Alice.
Mar 30, 2015
Susan Pinker on the benefits of face-to-face contact
Mar 23, 2015
Shame, with Jon Ronson
Mar 16, 2015
The Mathematical Mind with Cedric Villani
Mar 09, 2015
From Fringe to Frontline?
Mar 02, 2015
Joseph Nye on Soft Power
Feb 16, 2015
Life in Suburbia
Feb 09, 2015
The Rise of Islamic State
Feb 02, 2015
Organising the Mind
Jan 26, 2015
Surveillance and Self-censorship
Jan 20, 2015
The Tudors
Jan 12, 2015
Sense of Place
Dec 29, 2014
Hedonism
Dec 22, 2014
Reinventing Inventions
Dec 15, 2014
Arabian Nights
Dec 08, 2014
Evolution and Extinction
Dec 01, 2014
Science Fiction
Nov 24, 2014
Self-Portrayal
Nov 17, 2014
A Good Death
Nov 10, 2014
The Language of Money
Nov 03, 2014
Revolution
Oct 27, 2014
Napoleon
Oct 20, 2014
Crime Stories and Ghost Stories
Oct 13, 2014
Naomi Klein on climate change and growth
Oct 06, 2014
Karen Armstrong on War and Religion
Sep 29, 2014
Hilary Mantel
Sep 22, 2014
Tom Sutcliffe discusses family secrets and Scottish royalty
Jul 07, 2014
The Science of the Mind
Jun 30, 2014
Joyce DiDonato and Julie Bindel on Women Behaving Badly
Jun 23, 2014
Pain and Prejudice
Jun 16, 2014
What Is the State For?
Jun 09, 2014
Rod Liddle on the selfish generation
Jun 02, 2014
Charleston Festival
May 23, 2014
Alien Invaders
May 19, 2014
The Myth of the Strong Leader?
May 12, 2014
Simon Armitage on Greek Tragedy
May 02, 2014
The Future of Capitalism
Apr 28, 2014
James Lovelock
Apr 21, 2014
Lucy Worsley on the Georgians
Apr 14, 2014
Police drama with playwright Roy Williams
Apr 07, 2014
AL Kennedy and David Sedaris on matters of the heart
Mar 31, 2014
Faisal I of Iraq and the making of the modern Middle East
Mar 24, 2014
Decision-making with Daniel Kahneman and Michael Ignatieff
Mar 17, 2014
Andrew Hussey on the legacy of France's Arab Empire
Mar 10, 2014
The Vikings and Seafaring
Mar 03, 2014
Adair Turner on the Politics of Finance
Feb 24, 2014
Vanessa Feltz and Susie Orbach on Confession
Feb 17, 2014
Irving Finkel on the Ark Tablet
Feb 10, 2014
Spying and Surveillance: The Snowden Files
Jan 29, 2014
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Jan 24, 2014
Neuroscience and Free Will
Jan 20, 2014
Unity and Disunity
Jan 09, 2014
Michael Gove on teaching history
Dec 30, 2013
Clive James
Dec 23, 2013
Josie Rourke on strategy and Coriolanus
Dec 12, 2013
The Building Blocks of Life and Intelligence
Dec 09, 2013
Landscape and Community
Dec 02, 2013
Bianca Jagger on human rights
Nov 25, 2013
Gandhi's Early Years
Nov 18, 2013
Andrew Marr on poet George Herbert
Nov 11, 2013
Fiona Shaw; Simon McBurney; Journeys Into the Unknown
Nov 04, 2013
The Kremlin: A fortress that has shaped a nation
Oct 28, 2013
Paul Collier on Immigration Controls
Oct 17, 2013
Grayson Perry on contemporary art
Oct 14, 2013
Victorian Revivalism
Oct 04, 2013
Greek myth and the Indian epic Ramayana
Sep 27, 2013
Jamal Edwards on 'digital natives'
Sep 23, 2013
Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Future
Sep 16, 2013
Population: Ten Billion
Jul 01, 2013
Zadie Smith on social mobility
Jun 24, 2013
Hari Kunzru and Dystopia
Jun 17, 2013
Putin's Russia
Jun 10, 2013
Fairy Tale Physics?
Jun 03, 2013
Eric Schmidt on the New Digital Age
May 27, 2013
Antonia Fraser: Democracy and Reform
May 20, 2013
Music and the mind: Carrie Cracknell
May 13, 2013
Michael Rosen at the Brighton Festival
May 06, 2013
Gavin Turk on the Value of Art
Apr 29, 2013
Bernardo Bertolucci
Apr 19, 2013
The Origin and Future of Life
Apr 15, 2013
'Home' and cultural identity with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Apr 08, 2013
Tom Sutcliffe talks to John Gray and Mary Beard
Apr 01, 2013
Mohsin Hamid talks about How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mar 25, 2013
Lisa Jardine talks to David Cannadine and Aleksandar Hemon
Mar 15, 2013
Ken Loach on post-war Britain
Mar 11, 2013
Feminism: Natasha Walter and Catherine Hakim
Mar 04, 2013
The Commonwealth - Don McKinnon and Kwasi Kwarteng
Feb 25, 2013
Mathematical modelling with Lisa Jardine
Feb 11, 2013
Al-Qaeda: Afghanistan to Mali
Feb 04, 2013
Political Writing: Joan Bakewell and Tim Montgomerie
Jan 28, 2013
History of Music - John Adams and Howard Goodall
Jan 21, 2013
Natural Capital: Tony Juniper
Jan 14, 2013
Family Secrets: Sarah Dunant and Deborah Cohen
Jan 09, 2013
The Human Voice: Rolando Villazon and Mark-Anthony Turnage
Dec 24, 2012
Science Special
Dec 17, 2012
Scotland - Ian Rankin and Alasdair Gray
Dec 10, 2012
Nuclear Iran - Shirley Williams and Geoffrey Robertson
Dec 03, 2012
Germany and the EU
Nov 26, 2012
Art and Design with Antony Gormley and Ron Arad
Nov 19, 2012
Award-winning film director Kevin Macdonald
Nov 12, 2012
Political Divide: Mary Robinson and Michael Ignatieff
Nov 05, 2012
Torture, terrorism and secrets
Oct 29, 2012
Modernism with Ali Smith and Kevin Jackson
Oct 22, 2012
Richard Ford on the US Elections
Oct 15, 2012
Diana Athill and Philip Hensher on the dying art of handwriting
Oct 08, 2012
Anne Applebaum on Eastern Europe
Oct 01, 2012
Grimm Tales with Philip Pullman
Sep 20, 2012
Salman Rushdie
Sep 17, 2012
National Identity with Maajid Nawaz and Sir Christopher Meyer.
Jul 02, 2012
The 'life unlived' with Adam Phillips and Helen Dunmore
Jun 25, 2012
Science and Politics: Professor David Nutt and David Blunkett
Jun 18, 2012
WWII with Antony Beevor and Max Hastings
Jun 11, 2012
Grayson Perry at the Charleston Festival
Jun 04, 2012
Thomas Heatherwick on design and architecture
May 28, 2012
Michael Sandel on Money and Morality
May 21, 2012
Spain in Crisis
May 11, 2012
The Digital Future
May 07, 2012
Creativity: Jonah Lehrer
Apr 30, 2012
Iain Banks and David Hare
Apr 20, 2012
China
Apr 16, 2012
Peter Carey on Start the Week
Apr 09, 2012
The 'death of socialism'?
Apr 02, 2012
Werner Herzog on Start the Week
Mar 26, 2012
Nobel Prize winning author, Nadine Gordimer
Mar 19, 2012
Writers on Families: Colm Tóibín and AS Byatt
Mar 12, 2012
Middle Age: David Bainbridge, Deborah Moggach, Simon Armitage and Claudia Hammond
Mar 05, 2012
Faith and Doubt: Richard Holloway, Karen Armstrong, Jonathan Safran Foer and Helen Edmundson
Feb 27, 2012
Ian Stewart, Peter Randall-Page, Mark Miodownik, Jane Rapley
Feb 20, 2012
Elizabethans: Max Hastings, Mary Beard, John Guy and Lola Young
Feb 13, 2012
Conservatism: Peter Hitchens, Margot James, Douglas Murray and Thomas Frank
Feb 06, 2012
Revolution: Wael Ghonim, Paul Mason and Mary King
Jan 30, 2012
Justice: with Simon Stephens, John Podmore, Shami Chakrabarti and Mike Hough
Jan 23, 2012
Financial Crisis: Philip Coggan, Angela Knight, Maurice Glasman and Detlev Schlichter
Jan 16, 2012
Austerity: Antony Gormley, David Kynaston and Anna Coote
Jan 09, 2012
David Hockney Special
Dec 26, 2011
The Spirit of Christmas: Claire Tomalin, Susan Hill and Canon Giles Fraser
Dec 19, 2011
12/12/2011
Dec 12, 2011
Philosophy: Bernard-Henri Levy, Mary Warnock and Roger Scruton
Dec 05, 2011
Political leadership: George Ayittey, Simon Heffer, Martin Wolf and Maha Azzam
Nov 28, 2011
The Arts and politics: Rory Bremner, Peter Kosminsky and Iwona Blazwick
Nov 21, 2011
Writing History with Peter Englund, Norman Davies, Boris Johnson and Alison Weir.
Nov 14, 2011
Australian culture with Thomas Keneally, Kate Grenville and Deborah Cheetham
Nov 10, 2011
31/10/2011
Oct 31, 2011
24/10/2011
Oct 24, 2011
God and science with the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Richard Dawkins and Lisa Randall
Oct 17, 2011
Empire with Jeremy Paxman and Richard Gott
Oct 10, 2011
Afghanistan and the British Secret Service with Rory Stewart, Frank Ledwidge and Gordon Corera
Oct 03, 2011
Simon Jenkins' History of England, and the National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke
Sep 26, 2011
19/09/2011
Sep 19, 2011
Vasily Grossman: his life and legacy
Sep 12, 2011
04/07/2011
Jul 04, 2011
27/06/2011
Jun 27, 2011
20/06/2011
Jun 20, 2011
13/06/2011
Jun 13, 2011
06/06/2011
Jun 06, 2011
30/05/2011
May 30, 2011
23/05/2011
May 23, 2011
16/05/2011
May 16, 2011
09/05/2011
May 09, 2011
02/05/2011
May 02, 2011
25/04/2011
Apr 25, 2011
18/04/2011
Apr 18, 2011
11/04/2011
Apr 11, 2011
04/04/2011
Apr 04, 2011
28/03/2011
Mar 28, 2011
21/03/2011
Mar 21, 2011
14/03/2011
Mar 14, 2011
07/03/2011
Mar 07, 2011
28/02/2011
Feb 28, 2011
21/02/2011
Feb 21, 2011
14/02/2011
Feb 14, 2011
07/02/2011
Feb 07, 2011
31/01/2011
Jan 31, 2011
24/01/2011
Jan 24, 2011
17/01/2011
Jan 17, 2011
10/01/2011
Jan 10, 2011
27/12/2010
Dec 27, 2010
20/12/2010
Dec 20, 2010
13/12/2010
Dec 13, 2010
06/12/2010
Dec 06, 2010
29/11/2010
Nov 29, 2010
22/11/2010
Nov 22, 2010
15/11/2010
Nov 15, 2010
08/11/2010
Nov 08, 2010
01/11/2010
Nov 01, 2010
25/10/2010
Oct 25, 2010
18/10/2010
Oct 18, 2010
11/10/2010
Oct 11, 2010
04/10/2010
Oct 04, 2010
27/09/2010
Sep 27, 2010
20/09/2010
Sep 20, 2010