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Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday

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The NHS at 75
Kirsty Wark with Kevin Fong, Isabel Hardman, Phil Whitaker and Andrew Seaton
03 Jul 2023,41 mins
Materials that shape our world
Tom Sutcliffe with Ed Conway, Aarathi Prasad and Jamie Fraser.
26 Jun 2023,41 mins
Sums, stories and musical scores
Kirsty Wark with Eugenia Cheng, Sarah Hart and Emily Howard.
19 Jun 2023,42 mins
Hacking and cybercrime
Tom Sutcliffe with Scott Shapiro, Alice Hutchings and Jenny Radcliffe.
12 Jun 2023,42 mins
Allergies and the Microbiome
Adam Rutherford with Theresa MacPhail, James Kinross and Johnny Drain.
05 Jun 2023,41 mins
Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Rosen and Natalie Haynes.
29 May 2023,41 mins
Birds and moths
Kirsty Wark with Tim Blackburn, Cheryl Tipp and Mark Cocker
22 May 2023,41 mins
Virtuous bankers?
Adam Rutherford with Anne Murphy, Edward Chancellor and David Fishwick.
15 May 2023,41 mins
Monster artist/monstrous art?
Tom Sutcliffe with Claire Dederer, Devika Ponnambalam and Michael Bond.
08 May 2023,42 mins
Life behind the iron curtain
Adam Rutherford with Karl Schlögel, Katja Hoyer and Adam Curtis
01 May 2023,42 mins
Ancient trees
Kirsty Wark with Peter Wohlleben, Jill Butler and Carolyne Larrington.
24 Apr 2023,41 mins
A place called home
Tom Sutcliffe with Kieran Yates, Natasha Carthew, Christine Whitehead and Alice Brownfield
17 Apr 2023,41 mins
Ai Weiwei and design values
Adam Rutherford with Ai Weiwei, Roma Agrawal and Bent Flyvbjerg
10 Apr 2023,42 mins
Mastering a new skill
Tom Sutcliffe with Adam Gopnik, Hannah Critchlow and Rebecca Struthers.
03 Apr 2023,41 mins
Climate - past, present and future
Kirsty Wark with Peter Frankopan, Jane Francis and Jessie Greengrass.
27 Mar 2023,41 mins
Humanism - what is it good for?
Adam Rutherford with Sarah Bakewell, Julian Baggini and Leila Aboulela
20 Mar 2023,41 mins
George Eliot and married life
Tom Sutcliffe with Clare Carlisle, Claudia Rankine and David Eldridge
13 Mar 2023,41 mins
The Iraq War – 20 years on
Kirsty Wark with Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Emma Sky and Gordon Corera.
06 Mar 2023,42 mins
Democratic capitalism – marriage on the rocks
Tom Sutcliffe with Bernie Sanders, Martin Wolf and Kate Raworth.
27 Feb 2023,42 mins
Ancient knowledge
Adam Rutherford with Carlo Rovelli, Ann Yee and Kapka Kassabova.
20 Feb 2023,41 mins
The food we eat
Kimberley Wilson, Louise Gray and Rebecca O'Connell with Tom Sutcliffe
13 Feb 2023,41 mins
Power, violence and witches
Kirsty Wark with Zinnie Harris, Marion Gibson and Jo Ingabire Moys.
06 Feb 2023,42 mins
The Victims of War
Tom Sutcliffe with Dan Stone, Catherine Merridale and Bernard Wasserstein.
30 Jan 2023,42 mins
Videogames – from fantasy to reality
Adam Rutherford with Sandra Youkhana, Adrian Hon and Louise Blain
23 Jan 2023,41 mins
The view from Latin America
Kirsty Wark with Caroline Dodds Pennock, Adrian Locke and Iokiñe Rodríguez Fernandez.
16 Jan 2023,41 mins
Where are you from?
Tom Sutcliffe with Kenan Malik, Francesca Sobande and Don Paterson.
09 Jan 2023,41 mins
Awesome
Tom Sutcliffe with Dacher Keltner, Anna Lapwood and Felix Flicker
26 Dec 2022,42 mins
Dance Pioneers
Kirsty Wark with Wayne McGregor, Cassa Pancho and Jennifer Homans.
19 Dec 2022,42 mins
Listening in the dark
Adam Rutherford with Johan Eklöf, Kate Summerscale, Simon McBurney and Geraint Rees
12 Dec 2022,42 mins
Returning to the moon
Tom Sutcliffe with Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Oliver Morton and Luke Jerram.
05 Dec 2022,41 mins