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Manufacturing and sustainability
Tom Sutcliffe with Tim Minshall, Bernie Bulkin and Fiona Dear.
03 Feb 2025,41 mins
Climate Crisis: truth, lies and compromise
Adam Rutherford with Mike Berners-Lee, Joe Murphy and Marianne Brown
27 Jan 2025,41 mins
Music and movement; mind and body
Tom Sutcliffe with Daniel Levitin, Nwando Ebizie and Sara Veale
20 Jan 2025,42 mins
Socrates, optimism and racism
Adam Rutherford with Agnes Callard, Sumit Paul-Choudhury and Keon West
13 Jan 2025,41 mins
Human intelligence and imagination
Tom Sutcliffe with Naomi Alderman, Michelle Aroney and Adam Zeman
30 Dec 2024,42 mins
Animals – up close and talking
Adam Rutherford with Simon Armitage, Amorina Kingdom and Christian Rutz.
23 Dec 2024,41 mins
Acoustics, music and architecture
Tom Sutcliffe with Fiona Smyth, Trevor Cox and Jess Gillam
16 Dec 2024,41 mins
Security threats and future prospects for Britain and the EU
Shahidha Bari talks to Sir Alex Younger, Armida van Rij and Ross Clark.
09 Dec 2024,41 mins
The story of British art - from cave paintings to landscapes
Tom Sutcliffe with Bendor Grosvenor, Susan Owens and Lucinda Rogers.
02 Dec 2024,41 mins
The high street
Adam Rutherford with Annie Gray, Vicky Payne and Angela Hui.
25 Nov 2024,41 mins
Rise and fall of the political fixer
Tom Sutcliffe with Peter Kosminsky, Lucy Hughes-Hallett and Stephen Bush.
18 Nov 2024,42 mins
Sex and Christianity
Amanda Vickery with Diarmaid MacCulloch, Helen King and Ruth Padel.
11 Nov 2024,42 mins
Ancient crafts: feathers, leather and thatch
Adam Rutherford with James Rebanks, Alice Robinson and Andrew Raffle.
04 Nov 2024,41 mins
Female ambition and control
Tom Sutcliffe with Jade Scott, Zinnie Harris and Stefan Stern.
28 Oct 2024,41 mins
A duty of care
Adam Rutherford with David Goodhart, Kathryn Faulke and Anna Coote.
21 Oct 2024,41 mins
From Sapiens to AI
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Yuval Noah Harari, Madhumita Murgia and Edith Hall
14 Oct 2024,42 mins
Oceans and the game of evolution
Amanda Vickery talks to Richard Powers, Peter Godfrey-Smith and Heather Koldewey.
07 Oct 2024,42 mins
Ancient India and China: from golden to silk roads
Adam Rutherford with William Dalrymple, Shanay Jhaveri and Susan Whitfield.
30 Sep 2024,42 mins
Chance and fortune
Tom Sutcliffe with David Spiegelhalter, Eliza Filby and Roddy Doyle
23 Sep 2024,41 mins
On Freedom
Tom Sutcliffe with Timothy Snyder, Oksana Maksymchuk and Lucy Ash
16 Sep 2024,41 mins
Weaving magic in words, clay and paper
Kirsty Wark with Kathleen Jamie, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Mark Hearld and Naomi Robertson
01 Jul 2024,41 mins
Animal communication
Tom Sutcliffe with Martin Wikelski, Kapka Kassabova and Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas
24 Jun 2024,42 mins
Politeness and civility
Adam Rutherford with Louise Mullany, John Gallagher, Susie Dent and Matt Forde.
17 Jun 2024,42 mins
‘Left behind’, but not forgotten
Tom Sutcliffe with Paul Collier, Joanna Kusiak and Matthew Xia.
10 Jun 2024,41 mins
Hay Festival: ancient wisdom and ecology
Adam Rutherford with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Hugh Warwick and Olivia Laing at Hay Festival
03 Jun 2024,42 mins
Reading the Bible
Kirsty Wark swaps Bible stories with Marilynne Robinson, Naomi Alderman and Malika Booker
27 May 2024,41 mins
Art: market, money and malfeasance
Tom Sutcliffe with Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Orlando Whitfield and Angelina Giovani
20 May 2024,42 mins
Bees – culture and survival
Tom Sutcliffe with Wolfgang Buttress, Claire Preston, Lars Chittka and Alison Benjamin
13 May 2024,41 mins
Protest and patriotism
Jackie Kay, Caroline Lucas and Simon Heffer with Adam Rutherford.
06 May 2024,41 mins
Alien life and gravity
Tom Sutcliffe with Lisa Kaltenegger, Claudia de Rham and Mark Fromhold
29 Apr 2024,41 mins