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Stonehenge, and conserving the future
Adam Rutherford with Neil Wilkin, Rebecca Nesbit and Thomas Halliday.
14 Feb 2022,42 mins
The Georgians
Tom Sutcliffe with Penelope Corfield, Tristram Hunt and Philip McCann.
07 Feb 2022,42 mins
Bullish masculinity
Helen Lewis with Fiona Benson, Ivan Jablonka, Nina Power and Angelica Malin.
31 Jan 2022,41 mins
Modernism
Kirsty Wark with Matthew Sweet, Charlotte Sleigh, Soweto Kinch and Suzanne Hobson.
24 Jan 2022,41 mins
Old battles, new warfare
Adam Rutherford with Mark Galeotti, Cécile Fabre and Kirsty Graham.
17 Jan 2022,41 mins
Finding consolation and community in reading
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Ignatieff, Christopher Prendergast and Toby Brothers.
10 Jan 2022,42 mins
Vaccinate, ventilate and breathe
Andrew Marr with Catherine Noakes, Teresa Lambe and James Nestor.
27 Dec 2021,41 mins
A musical journey – from the mountains to the multi-storey
Andrew Marr with Steven Isserlis, Benjamin Appl and Kate Whitley.
20 Dec 2021,41 mins
Living in the Matrix
Tom Sutcliffe with Naomi Alderman, David J Chalmers and Philippa Garety.
13 Dec 2021,42 mins
Witches
Andrew Marr with Kathryn Hunter, Claire Askew and Malcolm Gaskill.
06 Dec 2021,41 mins
Levelling up; halting decline
Kirsty Wark with Marit Kapla, Paul Batchelor and Paul Swinney.
29 Nov 2021,42 mins
Christianity: Changing Fortunes
Andrew Marr with Janine di Giovanni, Elle Hardy and Tricia Hillas.
22 Nov 2021,42 mins
Ancient lives and legacies in Latin America
Tom Sutcliffe with Mario Vargas Llosa, Jago Cooper and Natalia Sobrevilla Perea
15 Nov 2021,42 mins
Internet influencers and generation gaps
Andrew Marr with Olivia Yallop, Sarah Ogilvie and Bobby Duffy.
08 Nov 2021,42 mins
Ai Weiwei on creative freedom
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Ai Weiwei, Lea Ypi and Kirill Gerstein.
01 Nov 2021,42 mins
Working the land - Orwell and HG Wells
Andrew Marr with Rebecca Solnit, Claire Tomalin and Peter Hetherington
25 Oct 2021,42 mins
Rationality in an Irrational Age
Amol Rajan talks about rationality with Steven Pinker, Amia Srinivasan and Irving Finkel.
18 Oct 2021,42 mins
Views from across the water
Andrew Marr with Clare Jackson, Benedicte Paviot and Fintan O’Toole.
11 Oct 2021,42 mins
Images of power
Kirsty Wark with Mary Beard, Andrew Roberts and Ayesha Hazarika
04 Oct 2021,42 mins
Colm Tóibín on Thomas Mann
Andrew Marr talks to Colm Tóibín, Karen Leeder and Jesse Armstrong
27 Sep 2021,42 mins
Climate activism: the next generation
Richard Powers, Mya-Rose Craig and Simon Mundy talk to Andrew Marr
20 Sep 2021,42 mins
Life in the first person
Oliver Mears, Tiffany Watt Smith and Anil Seth talk to Tom Sutcliffe.
13 Sep 2021,41 mins
Ali Smith
Ali Smith in conversation with Andrew Marr
28 Jun 2021,41 mins
Jackie Kay on Bessie Smith
Kirsty Wark with Jackie Kay, Rosemary Hill and Michael Armitage
21 Jun 2021,42 mins
London - villain and victim?
Andrew Marr with Iestyn Davies, Jennifer Kavanagh and Jack Brown
14 Jun 2021,41 mins
Lionel Shriver on life and death decisions
Tom Sutcliffe with Lionel Shriver, David Jarrett and Jack Thorne.
07 Jun 2021,41 mins
DH Lawrence: life and work
Andrew Marr with Frances Wilson, Salman Rushdie and Simon Armitage
31 May 2021,42 mins
On Thin Ice: Glaciers, Geopolitics, and Nature's Goods
Kirsty Wark with Jemma Wadham, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson and Dwayne Ryan Menezes.
24 May 2021,42 mins
Daniel Kahneman on 'noisy' human judgement
Andrew Marr with Daniel Kahneman, Gillian Tett and Ann Cairns.
17 May 2021,42 mins
The opioid crisis and erosion of trust
Amol Rajan with Patrick Radden Keefe, Zoe Williams and Heidi Larson
10 May 2021,42 mins