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Shame, Status and Self-invention
Amol Rajan with Tina Brown, Didier Eribon, Miranda France and Timothy Sheader.
25 Jun 2018,43 mins
Deserts and the Nuclear Age
Andrew Marr with William Atkins, Jane Kinninmont and Fred Pearce.
18 Jun 2018,43 mins
Altered Minds
Kirsty Wark with Michael Pollan, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Tammy Burmeister and Andrew Motion.
11 Jun 2018,43 mins
Arundhati Roy on castes and outcasts
Arundhati Roy, Hattie Naylor, Damian Le Bas and Daniel Finkelstein with Andrew Marr.
04 Jun 2018,43 mins
Survival and Destruction
Antony Beevor, Emily Wilson, David Christian and Jonathan D Quick at Hay Festival.
28 May 2018,43 mins
Dark Satanic Mills
Amol Rajan with Mariana Mazzucato, Joshua Freeman, Rowan Moore and Jane Commane.
21 May 2018,43 mins
Jordan Peterson: Rules for Life
Jordan Peterson, Louise O'Neill, Hashi Mohamed and Lawrence Wright with Tom Sutcliffe.
14 May 2018,43 mins
The Death of Democracy
Amol Rajan with Anne Applebaum, David Runciman and Nic Cheeseman.
07 May 2018,43 mins
Mysteries of the Universe
Carlo Rovelli, Carole Mundell, Helen Scales and Laura Walker with Andrew Marr.
30 Apr 2018,43 mins
Life Is a Dream
Tom Sutcliffe with Jesmyn Ward, Kim Brandstrup, Edith Hall and John Gray.
23 Apr 2018,43 mins
1968: Radicals and Riots
Andrew Marr with Sophie Pedder, Agnes Poirier, Richard Vinen and Roger Scruton.
16 Apr 2018,43 mins
The Good Samaritan
Andrew Marr with Chris Hughes, Caroline Slocock, Nick Spencer and Ian Goldin.
09 Apr 2018,43 mins
Faith and Doubt
Amol Rajan with Naomi Alderman, Richard Holloway, Laurie Stras and Malcolm Guite.
02 Apr 2018,43 mins
Love and Loss
Andrew Marr with Sue Black, Kit de Waal, Mark-Anthony Turnage and Jack Hartnell.
26 Mar 2018,43 mins
In Praise of Passion
Andrew Marr with Bettany Hughes, John Lewis-Stempel, Rachel Hewitt and Stephen Walsh.
19 Mar 2018,43 mins
Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead
Kirsty Wark with Lionel Shriver, Linda Yueh, Bev Skeggs and Sean O'Brien.
12 Mar 2018,43 mins
Art and Civilisations
Andrew Marr with Mary Beard, Simon Schama, David Olusoga and Tacita Dean.
05 Mar 2018,43 mins
Who Am I? The Brain and Personality
Tom Sutcliffe with Jules Montague, Anthony David, Nick Chater and Stephen Beresford.
26 Feb 2018,43 mins
Fascism and the Enlightenment with Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker, Rob Riemen and Tali Sharot discuss fascism and humanism with Andrew Marr.
19 Feb 2018,43 mins
Rise and Fall of the City
Amol Rajan with Richard Sennett, David Farr, Roma Agrawal and Edward Burman.
12 Feb 2018,43 mins
Money Makes the World Go Around
Andrew Marr with Diane Coyle, Dharshini David, Anna Ledwich and Jon Kalman Stefansson.
05 Feb 2018,43 mins
Mohsin Hamid on leaving home
Mohsin Hamid, Carol Bohmer, Robert Hastie and Bruno Macaes with Kirsty Wark.
29 Jan 2018,43 mins
The Power of Art
Andrew Marr with Andrew Graham-Dixon, Leanda de Lisle, Kelly Chorpening and Don Thompson.
22 Jan 2018,43 mins
Peter Carey on legacies of the past
Tom Sutcliffe with author Peter Carey, broadcaster Afua Hirsch and journalist Geert Mak.
15 Jan 2018,43 mins
Votes for Women
Andrew Marr with Jane Robinson, Christopher Finlay, Peter Kennard and Fiona Sampson.
08 Jan 2018,43 mins
Who governs Britain?
Andrew Marr with Lord Neuberger, Barbara Hosking, Robert Harris and Tim Bale.
18 Dec 2017,43 mins
The power and beauty of objects.
Jessie Burton, Jonathan Haskel, Marion Rankine and Andrew Nahum with Tom Sutcliffe.
11 Dec 2017,43 mins
Russia, religion and the Middle East
Masha Gessen, Dominic Rubin, Liwaa Yazji and Roy Allison with Andrew Marr.
04 Dec 2017,43 mins
Finland at 100
Amol Rajan with Sakari Oramo, Sointu Fritze, Horatio Clare and Martin Sandbu.
27 Nov 2017,43 mins
Blood, guts and swearing robots
Andrew Marr with Lindsey Fitzharris, Lesley Colvin, Beth Singler and Emma Byrne.
20 Nov 2017,43 mins