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Art - plunder, power and prestige
Andrew Marr with Cynthia Saltzman, Francesco da Mosto and Charles Saumarez Smith.
03 May 2021,42 mins
Personal faith and the Church
Tom Sutcliffe with Chine McDonald, Giles Fraser and Jeet Thayil.
26 Apr 2021,41 mins
What if the Incas had colonised Europe?
Andrew Marr with Laurent Binet, Caroline Dodds Pennock and Christienna Fryar.
19 Apr 2021,41 mins
Nuclear destruction
Amol Rajan with Serhii Plokhy, Patricia Lewis and Sarah Rainsford
12 Apr 2021,42 mins
Defining mental illness
Andrew Marr with Suzanne O’Sullivan, Lucy Foulkes and Sally Holland
05 Apr 2021,42 mins
Trade deals and human rights – in Africa and China
Andrew Marr with Tom Tugendhat, Geetha Tharmaratnam and Michela Wrong.
29 Mar 2021,42 mins
Newton: science and worldly riches
Tom Sutcliffe with Edward St Aubyn, Patricia Fara and Chris van Tulleken.
22 Mar 2021,42 mins
Rights and responsibilities
Andrew Marr with Matthew d’Ancona, Minouche Shafik and Kenan Malik
15 Mar 2021,42 mins
Understanding Melancholy
Amol Rajan with Mary Ann Lund, Horatio Clare and Ahmed Hankir.
08 Mar 2021,42 mins
Monsters of the deep
Andrew Marr with Helen Scales, Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Kolbert
01 Mar 2021,41 mins
Family struggles - from Greek tragedy to The Troubles
Kirsty Wark with Sally Bayley, Kerri ní Dochartaigh and Lisa Dwan.
22 Feb 2021,42 mins
Living online and IRL
Andrew Marr with Patricia Lockwood, Roisin Kiberd and Matthew Syed.
15 Feb 2021,41 mins
Empire and class, shaping Britain
Tom Sutcliffe with Sathnam Sanghera, Selina Todd and Anthony Anaxagorou
08 Feb 2021,42 mins
The fall of Maxwell – the end of an era.
Andrew Marr with John Preston, Julia Langdon and Emily Bell.
01 Feb 2021,41 mins
Mariana Mazzucato on moonshot economics
Amol Rajan with Mariana Mazzucato, Vince Cable and Robert Verkaik
25 Jan 2021,42 mins
Francis Bacon revealed
Andrew Marr with Annalyn Swan, Russell T Davies and Mark-Anthony Turnage
18 Jan 2021,41 mins
Scotland and the Union
Andrew Marr with Ailsa Henderson, Ruth Wishart, Ben Jackson and Karin Bowie.
11 Jan 2021,41 mins
Nicholas Hytner
The award-winning theatre director Nicholas Hytner in conversation with Andrew Marr.
28 Dec 2020,42 mins
Thomas Becket and the rift between church and state
Andrew Marr with Laura Ashe, Christopher de Hamel and Andrew Hussey.
21 Dec 2020,41 mins
Inspiring awe – from the heavens to the oceans
Tom Sutcliffe with Stuart Clark, Rebecca Giggs and Antony Gormley.
14 Dec 2020,42 mins
Laughter
Andrew Marr with Sindhu Vee, John Mullan and Jonathan Silvertown.
07 Dec 2020,43 mins
Human ingenuity and shared inheritance
Amol Rajan with Simon Baron-Cohen, Rebecca Wragg Sykes and Susana Carvalho.
30 Nov 2020,42 mins
Derrida, Woolf, and the pleasure of reading
Andrew Marr with Bernhard Schlink, Alexandra Harris and Peter Salmon
23 Nov 2020,42 mins
Landscapes real and imagined
Daisy Johnson, Caleb Femi and Kevin Barry with Tom Sutcliffe.
16 Nov 2020,42 mins
Physics in all its glory
Roger Penrose, Carlo Rovelli and Helen Czerski with Andrew Marr
09 Nov 2020,42 mins
Great women of the classics
Kirsty Wark with Shadi Bartsch, Natalie Haynes and Letizia Treves
02 Nov 2020,42 mins
China and the global order
Andrew Marr with John Micklethwait, Katya Adler and Rana Mitter.
26 Oct 2020,42 mins
Fake news and data lies: how to win an election
Amol Rajan with Jill Lepore and Richard Evans.
19 Oct 2020,42 mins
Care and compassion
Andrew Marr with Madeleine Bunting, Jeremy Hunt and Helen Kingston.
12 Oct 2020,42 mins
Contested histories
Tom Sutcliffe with Olivette Otele, Kate Williams and Sudhir Hazareesingh
05 Oct 2020,41 mins