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Edmund de Waal on Porcelain
Andrew Marr talks to Edmund de Waal, Tim Marlow, Annie Freud and Mark Miodownik.
21 Sep 2015,43 mins
Harmony and Balance
Mary Ann Sieghart with Frank Wilczek, Shobana Jeyasingh, Matt Parker and Gerald Finley.
06 Jul 2015,43 mins
Alan Watts and the Way of Translation
Andrew Marr with Tim Lott, Mark Vernon, Maureen Freely and Marc Rees.
29 Jun 2015,43 mins
Architecture and power - from Stalinist structures to model villages
Tom Sutcliffe with Doug Aitken, Owen Hatherley, Jacqueline Yallop and Graham Morrison.
22 Jun 2015,43 mins
The Value of Art with Grayson Perry and Hannah Rothschild
Andrew Marr with Grayson Perry, Hannah Rothschild, Xavier Bray and Patrick Mark.
15 Jun 2015,43 mins
Illness: Psychosomatic and Physical
Tom Sutcliffe discusses health and wellbeing with guests.
08 Jun 2015,43 mins
Saul Bellow and Finding a Voice
Andrew Marr with guests Zachary Leader, Speech DeBelle, Robert Icke and Linda Grant.
01 Jun 2015,43 mins
Hay Festival
Tom Sutcliffe with Yuval Noah Harari, Beth Shapiro, Colm Toibin and Owen Sheers.
25 May 2015,43 mins
Joseph Stiglitz and Steve Hilton on Inequality
Andrew Marr with Joseph Stiglitz, Masha Gessen and Steve Hilton.
18 May 2015,43 mins
Values from Ancient Greece to Contemporary Harlem
Mariella Frostrup talks to Hamid Dabashi, Edith Hall, Douglas Murray and Glenn Ligon.
11 May 2015,43 mins
Vikram Seth
Tom Sutcliffe with Vikram Seth, Olivia Laing, Nick Groom and Nick Davies.
04 May 2015,43 mins
Violence
Anne McElvoy with Richard Bessel, Diana Preston, Helen Benedict and June Oscar.
27 Apr 2015,43 mins
Life Underwater
Tom Sutcliffe with Andrew Motion, Helen Scales, Nick Lane and Luke Rendell.
20 Apr 2015,43 mins
David Sloan Wilson on Altruism
Tom Sutcliffe with Lydia Cacho, David Sloan Wilson, William MacAskill and Tansy Davies.
13 Apr 2015,43 mins
The Amazons
Tom Sutcliffe with Sarah Hall, Adrienne Mayor and John Gray.
06 Apr 2015,43 mins
Lewis Carroll and the Story of Alice.
Andrew Marr with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Gillian Beer, Katherine Rundell, Damien Kempf.
30 Mar 2015,43 mins
Susan Pinker on the benefits of face-to-face contact
Anne McElvoy with Susan Pinker, Nicholas Lovell, Sam Riviere and Daniel Dennett.
23 Mar 2015,43 mins
Shame, with Jon Ronson
Tom Sutcliffe with Jennifer Jacquet, Jon Ronson, Peter Stanford and Michael Buffong.
16 Mar 2015,43 mins
The Mathematical Mind with Cedric Villani
Tom Sutcliffe with Cedric Villani, Vicky Neale, Zia Haider Rahman and Morgan Matthews.
09 Mar 2015,43 mins
From Fringe to Frontline?
Tom Sutcliffe with Robert Ford, Catherine de Vries, Srdja Popovic and John Fulljames.
02 Mar 2015,43 mins
Joseph Nye on Soft Power
Andrew Marr talks to Peter Pomerantsev, Anne Robbins and Joseph Nye.
16 Feb 2015,43 mins
Life in Suburbia
Anne McElvoy with Adam Thirlwell, Nick Hubble, Richard McGuire and Hannah Starkey.
09 Feb 2015,43 mins
The Rise of Islamic State
Tom Sutcliffe with Patrick Cockburn, Leena Hoffmann, Katherine Brown and Gerard Russell.
02 Feb 2015,43 mins
Organising the Mind
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss creativity and the organised mind.
26 Jan 2015,43 mins
Surveillance and Self-censorship
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss surveillance and self-censorship.
19 Jan 2015,43 mins
The Tudors
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the Tudors.
12 Jan 2015,43 mins
Sense of Place
Andrew Marr and guests discuss why some places mean so much more to us than others.
29 Dec 2014,43 mins
Hedonism
Tom Sutcliffe discusses hedonism with Greg Doran, Julia Twigg, Zoe Cormier and Kurt Lampe.
22 Dec 2014,43 mins
Reinventing Inventions
Tom Sutcliffe with Danielle George, Armand Leroi, John Barrow and Misbah Arif on invention
15 Dec 2014,43 mins
Arabian Nights
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss literature and art in the Arabic world.
08 Dec 2014,43 mins