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    Nuclear destruction

    Amol Rajan with Serhii Plokhy, Patricia Lewis and Sarah Rainsford

  2. Defining mental illness

    Andrew Marr with Suzanne O’Sullivan, Lucy Foulkes and Sally Holland

  3. Trade deals and human rights – in Africa and China

    Andrew Marr with Tom Tugendhat, Geetha Tharmaratnam and Michela Wrong.

  4. Newton: science and worldly riches

    Tom Sutcliffe with Edward St Aubyn, Patricia Fara and Chris van Tulleken.

  5. Rights and responsibilities

    Andrew Marr with Matthew d’Ancona, Minouche Shafik and Kenan Malik

  6. Understanding Melancholy

    Amol Rajan with Mary Ann Lund, Horatio Clare and Ahmed Hankir.

  7. Monsters of the deep

    Andrew Marr with Helen Scales, Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Kolbert

  8. Family struggles - from Greek tragedy to The Troubles

    Kirsty Wark with Sally Bayley, Kerri nΓ­ Dochartaigh and Lisa Dwan.

  9. Living online and IRL

    Andrew Marr with Patricia Lockwood, Roisin Kiberd and Matthew Syed.

  10. Empire and class, shaping Britain

    Tom Sutcliffe with Sathnam Sanghera, Selina Todd and Anthony Anaxagorou

  11. The fall of Maxwell – the end of an era.

    Andrew Marr with John Preston, Julia Langdon and Emily Bell.

  12. Mariana Mazzucato on moonshot economics

    Amol Rajan with Mariana Mazzucato, Vince Cable and Robert Verkaik

  13. Francis Bacon revealed

    Andrew Marr with Annalyn Swan, Russell T Davies and Mark-Anthony Turnage

  14. Scotland and the Union

    Andrew Marr with Ailsa Henderson, Ruth Wishart, Ben Jackson and Karin Bowie.

  15. Nicholas Hytner

    The award-winning theatre director Nicholas Hytner in conversation with Andrew Marr.

  16. Thomas Becket and the rift between church and state

    Andrew Marr with Laura Ashe, Christopher de Hamel and Andrew Hussey.

  17. Inspiring awe – from the heavens to the oceans

    Tom Sutcliffe with Stuart Clark, Rebecca Giggs and Antony Gormley.

  18. Laughter

    Andrew Marr with Sindhu Vee, John Mullan and Jonathan Silvertown.

  19. Human ingenuity and shared inheritance

    Amol Rajan with Simon Baron-Cohen, Rebecca Wragg Sykes and Susana Carvalho.

  20. Derrida, Woolf, and the pleasure of reading

    Andrew Marr with Bernhard Schlink, Alexandra Harris and Peter Salmon

  21. Landscapes real and imagined

    Daisy Johnson, Caleb Femi and Kevin Barry with Tom Sutcliffe.

  22. Physics in all its glory

    Roger Penrose, Carlo Rovelli and Helen Czerski with Andrew Marr

  23. Great women of the classics

    Kirsty Wark with Shadi Bartsch, Natalie Haynes and Letizia Treves

  24. China and the global order

    Andrew Marr with John Micklethwait, Katya Adler and Rana Mitter.

  25. Fake news and data lies: how to win an election

    Amol Rajan with Jill Lepore and Richard Evans.

  26. Care and compassion

    Andrew Marr with Madeleine Bunting, Jeremy Hunt and Helen Kingston.

  27. Contested histories

    Tom Sutcliffe with Olivette Otele, Kate Williams and Sudhir Hazareesingh

  28. Faith in the modern world

    Marilynne Robinson and Rowan Williams with Andrew Marr.

  29. Claudia Rankine and Margaret Atwood

    Claudia Rankine and Margaret Atwood with Kirsty Wark.

  30. The Radical Agenda

    Andrew Marr with Owen Jones, Rachel Holmes and Danny Finkelstein.

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