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Contested histories
Tom Sutcliffe with Olivette Otele, Kate Williams and Sudhir Hazareesingh
05 Oct 2020,41 mins
Faith in the modern world
Marilynne Robinson and Rowan Williams with Andrew Marr.
28 Sep 2020,42 mins
Claudia Rankine and Margaret Atwood
Claudia Rankine and Margaret Atwood with Kirsty Wark.
21 Sep 2020,42 mins
The Radical Agenda
Andrew Marr with Owen Jones, Rachel Holmes and Danny Finkelstein.
14 Sep 2020,41 mins
Meritocracy and inequality
Michael Sandel, Elif Shafak and David Goodhart with Amol Rajan
07 Sep 2020,42 mins
Nature notes, from farming to fungi
Andrew Marr with James Rebanks, Melissa Harrison and Merlin Sheldrake
31 Aug 2020,42 mins
Brit Bennett on race, identity and protest
Tom Sutcliffe with Brit Bennett and Gary Younge
29 Jun 2020,28 mins
James Joyce
Edna O'Brien, Colm Tóibín and Mary Costello discuss James Joyce with Andrew Marr.
15 Jun 2020,28 mins
Our coercive politics
Amol Rajan with David Runciman and Ute Frevert.
08 Jun 2020,27 mins
The Future
Andrew Marr with Riel Miller and Meehan Crist.
01 Jun 2020,28 mins
Classics and class
Tom Sutcliffe with Edith Hall and Ansgar Allen
25 May 2020,28 mins
Richard Ford, writing from the edges
Andrew Marr with Richard Ford and Ruth Livesey
18 May 2020,28 mins
Art in an emergency
Tom Sutcliffe with Olivia Laing and James Meek
11 May 2020,28 mins
Globalisation
Andrew Marr with Valerie Hansen and Gideon Rachman.
04 May 2020,28 mins
Changing behaviour, from bystander to actor
Kirsty Wark with Catherine Sanderson and David Halpern.
27 Apr 2020,28 mins
Crisis in Europe from Notre-Dame to coronavirus
Andrew Marr with Agnès Poirier and Martyn Rady.
20 Apr 2020,28 mins
Nature worship
Andrew Marr with Sue Stuart-Smith and Jonathan Bate
13 Apr 2020,41 mins
The genetic gender gap
Kirsty Wark with Sharon Moalem and Gina Rippon.
06 Apr 2020,42 mins
Rebuilding conservatism in changing times
Nick Timothy and Danny Dorling with Amol Rajan
30 Mar 2020,41 mins
Famous and Infamous
Tom Sutcliffe with Greg Jenner, Catherine Fletcher and Caroline Corbeau-Parsons
23 Mar 2020,41 mins
Cultural icons from Shakespeare to Superman
Tom Sutcliffe with James Shapiro, Mark Kermode, Teresa Bejan and Don Paterson
16 Mar 2020,42 mins
Morality, money and power
Andrew Marr with Jonathan Sacks, Mervyn King and Kate Fall.
09 Mar 2020,42 mins
Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel talks to Andrew Marr
02 Mar 2020,42 mins
Leila Slimani on Sexual Politics
Amol Rajan with Leila Slimani, Olivia Fane, Sally Howard and Chris Haywood
24 Feb 2020,41 mins
Love of home
Andrew Marr with Dan Jackson, Kapka Kassabova, Colin Mayer and Emily Thomas
17 Feb 2020,42 mins
Dresden - 75 years on
Tom Sutcliffe with Sinclair McKay, Edmund de Waal, Stefanie Bolzen and Sasha Havlicek
10 Feb 2020,41 mins
Artistic influence: Beethoven, Rembrandt and MeToo
Andrew Marr with Sir Antonio Pappano, Dame Mary Beard and An Van Camp.
03 Feb 2020,41 mins
Grayson Perry - the early years
Grayson Perry, Hashi Mohamed and Theresa Lolo with Amol Rajan
27 Jan 2020,42 mins
Puritans and God-given government
Andrew Marr with Paul Lay, Lisa Mullen, Stephen Tomkins and Lindsay Newman
20 Jan 2020,41 mins
No work, rest and play
Tom Sutcliffe with Daniel Susskind, Suzi Gage, Anoosh Chakelian and Sir John Strang
13 Jan 2020,41 mins