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    Shame, Status and Self-invention

    Amol Rajan with Tina Brown, Didier Eribon, Miranda France and Timothy Sheader.

  2. Deserts and the Nuclear Age

    Andrew Marr with William Atkins, Jane Kinninmont and Fred Pearce.

  3. Altered Minds

    Kirsty Wark with Michael Pollan, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Tammy Burmeister and Andrew Motion.

  4. Arundhati Roy on castes and outcasts

    Arundhati Roy, Hattie Naylor, Damian Le Bas and Daniel Finkelstein with Andrew Marr.

  5. Survival and Destruction

    Antony Beevor, Emily Wilson, David Christian and Jonathan D Quick at Hay Festival.

  6. Dark Satanic Mills

    Amol Rajan with Mariana Mazzucato, Joshua Freeman, Rowan Moore and Jane Commane.

  7. Jordan Peterson: Rules for Life

    Jordan Peterson, Louise O'Neill, Hashi Mohamed and Lawrence Wright with Tom Sutcliffe.

  8. The Death of Democracy

    Amol Rajan with Anne Applebaum, David Runciman and Nic Cheeseman.

  9. Mysteries of the Universe

    Carlo Rovelli, Carole Mundell, Helen Scales and Laura Walker with Andrew Marr.

  10. Life Is a Dream

    Tom Sutcliffe with Jesmyn Ward, Kim Brandstrup, Edith Hall and John Gray.

  11. 1968: Radicals and Riots

    Andrew Marr with Sophie Pedder, Agnes Poirier, Richard Vinen and Roger Scruton.

  12. The Good Samaritan

    Andrew Marr with Chris Hughes, Caroline Slocock, Nick Spencer and Ian Goldin.

  13. Faith and Doubt

    Amol Rajan with Naomi Alderman, Richard Holloway, Laurie Stras and Malcolm Guite.

  14. Love and Loss

    Andrew Marr with Sue Black, Kit de Waal, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Jack Hartnell.

  15. In Praise of Passion

    Andrew Marr with Bettany Hughes, John Lewis-Stempel, Rachel Hewitt and Stephen Walsh.

  16. Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead

    Kirsty Wark with Lionel Shriver, Linda Yueh, Bev Skeggs and Sean O'Brien.

  17. Art and Civilisations

    Andrew Marr with Mary Beard, Simon Schama, David Olusoga and Tacita Dean.

  18. Who Am I? The Brain and Personality

    Tom Sutcliffe with Jules Montague, Anthony David, Nick Chater and Stephen Beresford.

  19. Fascism and the Enlightenment with Steven Pinker

    Steven Pinker, Rob Riemen and Tali Sharot discuss fascism and humanism with Andrew Marr.

  20. Rise and Fall of the City

    Amol Rajan with Richard Sennett, David Farr, Roma Agrawal and Edward Burman.

  21. Money Makes the World Go Around

    Andrew Marr with Diane Coyle, Dharshini David, Anna Ledwich and Jon Kalman Stefansson.

  22. Mohsin Hamid on leaving home

    Mohsin Hamid, Carol Bohmer, Robert Hastie and Bruno Macaes with Kirsty Wark.

  23. The Power of Art

    Andrew Marr with Andrew Graham-Dixon, Leanda de Lisle, Kelly Chorpening and Don Thompson.

  24. Peter Carey on legacies of the past

    Tom Sutcliffe with author Peter Carey, broadcaster Afua Hirsch and journalist Geert Mak.

  25. Votes for Women

    Andrew Marr with Jane Robinson, Christopher Finlay, Peter Kennard and Fiona Sampson.

  26. Who governs Britain?

    Andrew Marr with Lord Neuberger, Barbara Hosking, Robert Harris and Tim Bale.

  27. The power and beauty of objects.

    Jessie Burton, Jonathan Haskel, Marion Rankine and Andrew Nahum with Tom Sutcliffe.

  28. Russia, religion and the Middle East

    Masha Gessen, Dominic Rubin, Liwaa Yazji and Roy Allison with Andrew Marr.

  29. Finland at 100

    Amol Rajan with Sakari Oramo, Sointu Fritze, Horatio Clare and Martin Sandbu.

  30. Blood, guts and swearing robots

    Andrew Marr with Lindsey Fitzharris, Lesley Colvin, Beth Singler and Emma Byrne.

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