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Cary Grant
Matthew Sweet and guests imagine an evening in the film star's company.
Shakespeare for the People
Adrian Lester and Prof Ewan Fernie talk to Islam Issa about Birmingham's first folio.
Alternative Realities
Shahidha Bari explores the impact of life-changing experiences and the fourth dimension.
Science Fiction and ecological thinking
Hetta Howes, Amy Butt and Caroline Edwards ask if science fiction is the new realism.
What's so great about EM Forster
Deborah Levy and Laurence Scott talk to Shahidha Bari about novelist EM Forster's work.
Deep Time and Human History
Lewis Dartnell, Gaia Vince and David Farrier join Rana Mitter to talk the deepest history.
Belonging
Philip Dodd talks to actor Christopher Eccleston and historian Ruth Dudley Edwards.
Religion and ordinary lives
Tom Charlton looks for evidence of belief from samplers to children's scribbles in bibles.
Knees
Dance to prayer, servants to Kings, knees ups to being on our knees. With Matthew Sweet
Wordsworth
Professors Sally Bushell and Simon Bainbridge talk to New Generation Thinker Sarah Jackson