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  1. Socrates, optimism and racism

    Adam Rutherford with Agnes Callard, Sumit Paul-Choudhury and Keon West

  2. Human intelligence and imagination

    Tom Sutcliffe with Naomi Alderman, Michelle Aroney and Adam Zeman

  3. Animals 鈥� up close and talking

    Adam Rutherford with Simon Armitage, Amorina Kingdom and Christian Rutz.

  4. Acoustics, music and architecture

    Tom Sutcliffe with Fiona Smyth, Trevor Cox and Jess Gillam

  5. Security threats and future prospects for Britain and the EU

    Shahidha Bari talks to Sir Alex Younger, Armida van Rij and Ross Clark.

  6. The story of British art - from cave paintings to landscapes

    Tom Sutcliffe with Bendor Grosvenor, Susan Owens and Lucinda Rogers.

  7. The high street

    Adam Rutherford with Annie Gray, Vicky Payne and Angela Hui.

  8. Rise and fall of the political fixer

    Tom Sutcliffe with Peter Kosminsky, Lucy Hughes-Hallett and Stephen Bush.

  9. Sex and Christianity

    Amanda Vickery with Diarmaid MacCulloch, Helen King and Ruth Padel.

  10. Ancient crafts: feathers, leather and thatch

    Adam Rutherford with James Rebanks, Alice Robinson and Andrew Raffle.

  11. Female ambition and control

    Tom Sutcliffe with Jade Scott, Zinnie Harris and Stefan Stern.

  12. A duty of care

    Adam Rutherford with David Goodhart, Kathryn Faulke and Anna Coote.

  13. From Sapiens to AI

    Tom Sutcliffe talks to Yuval Noah Harari, Madhumita Murgia and Edith Hall

  14. Oceans and the game of evolution

    Amanda Vickery talks to Richard Powers, Peter Godfrey-Smith and Heather Koldewey.

  15. Ancient India and China: from golden to silk roads

    Adam Rutherford with William Dalrymple, Shanay Jhaveri and Susan Whitfield.

  16. Chance and fortune

    Tom Sutcliffe with David Spiegelhalter, Eliza Filby and Roddy Doyle

  17. On Freedom

    Tom Sutcliffe with Timothy Snyder, Oksana Maksymchuk and Lucy Ash

  18. Weaving magic in words, clay and paper

    Kirsty Wark with Kathleen Jamie, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Mark Hearld and Naomi Robertson

  19. Animal communication

    Tom Sutcliffe with Martin Wikelski, Kapka Kassabova and Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas

  20. Politeness and civility

    Adam Rutherford with Louise Mullany, John Gallagher, Susie Dent and Matt Forde.

  21. 鈥楲eft behind鈥�, but not forgotten

    Tom Sutcliffe with Paul Collier, Joanna Kusiak and Matthew Xia.

  22. Hay Festival: ancient wisdom and ecology

    Adam Rutherford with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Hugh Warwick and Olivia Laing at Hay Festival

  23. Reading the Bible

    Kirsty Wark swaps Bible stories with Marilynne Robinson, Naomi Alderman and Malika Booker

  24. Art: market, money and malfeasance

    Tom Sutcliffe with Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Orlando Whitfield and Angelina Giovani

  25. Bees 鈥� culture and survival

    Tom Sutcliffe with Wolfgang Buttress, Claire Preston, Lars Chittka and Alison Benjamin

  26. Protest and patriotism

    Jackie Kay, Caroline Lucas and Simon Heffer with Adam Rutherford.

  27. Alien life and gravity

    Tom Sutcliffe with Lisa Kaltenegger, Claudia de Rham and Mark Fromhold

  28. City living

    Adam Rutherford explores the city with Ben Power, Amanda Levete and Simon Kuper.

  29. Power to the people

    Tom Sutcliffe discusses democracy with Erica Benner, Alpa Shah and Bobby Duffy.

  30. Music and poetry

    Kirsty Wark discusses poetry and music with Alison Balsom, Graeme Lawson and John Burnside

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