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Art for all
Tom Sutcliffe with Karl Ove Knausgaard, Fiona MacCarthy, Tamsin Wimhurst and Alison Brown.
25 Mar 2019,42 mins
Understanding China
Andrew Marr with Xinran, Julia Lovell, David KS Tse and Roel Sterckx.
18 Mar 2019,42 mins
The battle against so-called Islamic State
Kirsty Wark with David Nott, Azad Cudi, Joana Cook and Claire Foster-Gilbert
11 Mar 2019,41 mins
Language and Culture
Andrew Marr with Jhumpa Lahiri, April De Angelis, Katrin Kohl and Marcus du Sautoy
04 Mar 2019,41 mins
Populations and contested lands
Amol Rajan with Paul Morland, Julia Blackburn and Diarmaid Ferriter.
25 Feb 2019,42 mins
The Eye of the Beholder
Andrew Marr with Jill Burke, Elizabeth Goldring, Tom Stuart and Martin Sherman.
18 Feb 2019,42 mins
The mind unravelling
Kirsty Wark with Randolph Nesse, AK Benjamin and George Szirtes.
11 Feb 2019,42 mins
Who is watching you?
Shoshana Zuboff, John Thornhill and Ece Temelkuran with Andrew Marr.
04 Feb 2019,42 mins
The health of science
Tom Sutcliffe with Sir Robert Lechler, Jo Dunkley, Bernie Bulkin and Elizabeth Pisani.
28 Jan 2019,42 mins
Art, truth and power
Andrew Marr with Fiona Benson, Louise Pullen, Stephen Bayley and Liam Bright.
21 Jan 2019,42 mins
Violence and Conflict
John Lanchester, Patricia Lewis, Richard Wrangham and Eleanor Robson with Amol Rajan
14 Jan 2019,42 mins
Searching for happiness
Andrew Marr with Paul Dolan, Linda Geddes, Laura Freeman and Edward Bullmore.
07 Jan 2019,42 mins
Ice and Snow
Andrew Marr with Michelle Paver, Ben Saunders, Mark Miodownik and Nancy Campbell.
24 Dec 2018,42 mins
National myths with Neil MacGregor
Neil MacGregor, Christopher Harding and Kajsa Norman with Kirsty Wark.
17 Dec 2018,42 mins
Trees: a wood wide web
Andrew Marr with Peter Wohlleben, Kathleen Jamie, Ruth Pavey and Gary Fuller.
10 Dec 2018,42 mins
Power in Politics
Tom Sutcliffe with Isabel Hardman, James Graham, Diarmaid MacCulloch and Steven Fielding.
03 Dec 2018,42 mins
How the World Thinks
Julian Baggini, Ann Wroe, Amit Chaudhuri and Paulette Randall with Andrew Marr
26 Nov 2018,42 mins
Safe spaces and snowflakes
Jonathan Haidt, Olivia Sudjic, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Mark Ravenhill with Amol Rajan
19 Nov 2018,42 mins
Poland: A hundred years of history
Amol Rajan with Witold Szablowski, Roxanna Panufnik, Michal Murawski and Adam Zamoyski.
12 Nov 2018,42 mins
Reporting from the Front Line
Andrew Marr with Lindsey Hilsum, Eve Pollard, Anabel Hernandez and Gillian Clarke
05 Nov 2018,42 mins
That's not fair
Helena Kennedy, Paul Collier, David Willetts and Tiffany Watt Smith with Andrew Marr.
29 Oct 2018,42 mins
Pirates
Kirsty Wark with Michael Scott Moore, Anna Beer, Veerle Nouwens and Will Newton.
22 Oct 2018,42 mins
Identity Politics
Francis Fukuyama, Josie Rourke, Roseanne Chantiluke and Eric Kaufmann with Andrew Marr.
15 Oct 2018,42 mins
What's Your Type?
Tom Sutcliffe with Robert Plomin, Merve Emre and Naomi Eisenstadt
08 Oct 2018,42 mins
Yuval Noah Harari
The author of Sapiens and Homo Deus in conversation with Andrew Marr
01 Oct 2018,42 mins
From Ubermensch to Superman
William Boyd, Sue Prideaux, Adena Jacobs and Peter Biskind with Amol Rajan.
24 Sep 2018,43 mins
David Attenborough: Life on Earth and Beyond
David Attenborough, Martin Rees, Philippa Mason and Michael Quetting with Andrew Marr.
17 Sep 2018,43 mins
The Reality of War
Andrew Marr with Max Hastings, Helen Parr, Richard Dannatt and Deborah Haynes.
10 Sep 2018,43 mins
Storytelling at the Edinburgh Festivals
Andrew Marr with Pat Barker, Sjon, James Robertson and Karine Polwart.
27 Aug 2018,43 mins
British culture and European influence
Andrew Marr with Munira Mirza, Laura Tunbridge and Paul Kildea.
02 Jul 2018,43 mins