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    Paul Abbott: finding comedy in the tragic

    Andrew Marr with Paul Abbott, Edouard Louis, Gwen Adshead and Paul Farley.

  2. Turkey: Past and Present

    Amol Rajan discusses Turkey with Elif Shafak, Kaya Genç, Fadi Hakura and Bettany Hughes.

  3. Les Misérables: novel of the century?

    Andrew Marr with David Bellos, Dinah Birch, Simon Callow and Barbara Hannigan.

  4. Sara Khan: The Battle within Islam

    Tom Sutcliffe with Graeme Wood, Ziauddin Sardar, Sara Khan and Loretta Napoleoni.

  5. Chibundu Onuzo and Martin Sixsmith on corruption and family drama

    Andrew Marr with Martin Sixsmith, Chibundu Onuzo, Laurence Cockcroft and Oladipo Agboluaje

  6. Maps, Music and Medieval Manuscripts

    Andrew Marr with Christopher de Hamel, Lucie Skeaping and Edward Brooke-Hitching.

  7. Scientific Discoveries: from the mind to the cosmos

    Andrew Marr with Brian Cox, Saiful Islam, Andrea Wulf and Michael Lewis.

  8. The Bolshoi and Culture Wars

    Tom Sutcliffe with Simon Morrison, Ismene Brown, Edith Devaney and Nigel Cliff.

  9. Popular Protest and Patriotism

    Kirsty Wark with John Rees, Josie Rourke, Rachel Reeves and James Frayne.

  10. AIDS Activism and Surviving a Plague

    Tom Sutcliffe with Peter Staley, Anne Johnson, Peter Horby and Louise Welsh.

  11. Rewriting the Past: from Empire to ivory

    Andrew Marr with Ian Cobain, Edna Adan Ismail, Valerie Amos and Keith Somerville.

  12. Island Mentality

    Amol Rajan talks to Nicholas Crane, Madeleine Bunting, David Olusoga and Imtiaz Dharker.

  13. Virtue and Vice

    Andrew Marr with William Kentridge, Lucy Bailey, Susie Orbach and Simon Goldhill.

  14. Alan Bennett

    Andrew Marr talks to the writer Alan Bennett.

  15. Microbes, Genes and Human Endeavour

    Andrew Marr with Ed Yong, Adam Rutherford, Jonathan Maitland and Felicity Aston.

  16. Identity Politics in New York

    New York: Colson Whitehead, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Heather Mac Donald and Jim Zirin.

  17. The Tempest Reimagined, with Margaret Atwood and Harriet Walter

    Andrew Marr with Margaret Atwood, Harriet Walter, Richard Holmes and Letizia Treves.

  18. Soldiering on: the British Army, Lenin and Putin

    Tom Sutcliffe with Richard Dannatt, Ben Macintyre, Catherine Merridale and John Lough.

  19. Radical Liverpool

    Andrew Marr with Phil Redmond, Gary Younge, John Belchem and Kajsa Norman in Liverpool.

  20. Political Drama: Robert Harris and Margaret Hodge

    Andrew Marr with Robert Harris, Margaret Hodge, John Armitt and Philip Webster.

  21. Love, Loss and Scandal

    Andrew Marr talks to Carrie Cracknell, Michel Faber, Peter Parker and John Preston.

  22. Food: From Bread Riots to Obesity

    Andrew Marr with Bee Wilson, William Sitwell and Jane Harrigan.

  23. A Theory of Everything?

    Tom Sutcliffe with Marcus du Sautoy, Roger Penrose, Suzie Sheehy and Joanna Kavenna.

  24. New Artistic Director of the ENO, Daniel Kramer

    Andrew Marr with Daniel Kramer, Roger Scruton, Franny Moyle and Julia Peyton-Jones.

  25. Genes: Our medical inheritance

    Andrew Marr with Siddhartha Mukherjee, Giles Yeo, Aarathi Prasad and Emily Mayhew.

  26. Hay Festival: Spooks, war and genocide

    Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Hayden, Philippe Sands, Janine di Giovanni and Harry Parker.

  27. Lost and Found: Ancient Egypt to Modern Art

    Simon Armitage, Cornelia Parker, Cyprian Broodbank and Aurelia Masson-Berghoff.

  28. World on the Move

    Andrew Marr talks to Frank Dikotter, Sir Hew Strachan, Patience Agbabi and Tahmima Anam.

  29. Technology in Education

    Andrew Marr on education with Sugata Mitra, Neil Selwyn, Tony Little and Lynsey Hanley.

  30. Cross-dressing and masculinity with Grayson Perry

    Grayson Perry, Emma Rice, Alice Coote and Kelley Swain with Mary Ann Sieghart.

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