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June 22 · 42 min
Life Online: Power, Risk and Resistance
The dangers of life online, and how individuals and societies can fight back.
June 15 · 41 min
Working-Class Lives: Identity and Political Fractures
Nicola Wilding, Natasha Carthew and Daljit Nagra, with Adam Rutherford.
June 8 · 42 min
Scientific discovery and misunderstanding
Adam Rutherford talks discoveries with Andrea Wulf, Saira Hameed and Kathryn Paige Harden.
June 1 · 42 min
Searching for economic solutions
Jeremy Hunt, Mariana Mazzucato and Patrick Foulis join Tom Sutcliffe.
May 25 · 42 min
Mythmaking at Hay: from Medea to Rasputin
Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Antony Beevor, Natalie Haynes and Susan Neiman at Hay Festival.
May 18 · 42 min
Farming, food production and rural life
Adam Rutherford talks to Minette Batters, Dave Goulson and Melissa Harrison about farming.
May 11 · 40 min
German history
Samira Ahmed with writer Katja Hoyer, art historian John-Paul Stonard & writer Julia Boyd.
May 4 · 41 min
Laurie Anderson: Strange and Disorientating Landscapes
Naomi Alderman talks to Laurie Anderson, plus JG Ballard's writing and Nancy Holt's art.
April 27 · 42 min
Chemical Reactions
Tom Sutcliffe with chemist Ijeoma Uchegbu, science historian Kit Chapman & Mark Miodownik
April 20 · 41 min
Why Stuff Matters: Objects, Power and the Past
Mary Beard, Greg Doran and Sophia Adams talk to Adam Rutherford.
April 13 · 41 min
Challenges and solutions
John Kampfner, Natasha Walter and Nicolas Niarchos join Tom Sutcliffe
April 6 · 41 min
Zoos, sex and conservation
Adam Rutherford on the origins of zoos and sex.
March 30 · 41 min
Industrial action: from 1926 General Strike to today
Tom Sutcliffe looks back to the General Strike a century ago, and to the future of work.
March 23 · 41 min
Growing Up
Naomi Alderman with Booker prize-winner David Szalay, Penny Woolcock and Laura Tisdall.
March 16 · 41 min
Consciousness and Identity
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Pollan, Fay Bound-Alberti and Mary Costello.
March 9 · 41 min
Under the sea
Adam Rutherford discusses the sea with Julian Sancton, Joan Passey and Samanth Subramanian
March 2 · 41 min
Reading and storytelling
Tom Sutcliffe hears the case for literacy and literature.
February 23 · 41 min
Thinking about war
Sir Lawrence Freedman on strategy, art curator Rebecca Newell and historian Jane Rogoyska.
February 16 · 41 min
Breakage and repair
Tom Sutcliffe's guests include Booker Prize-winner George Saunders on his new novel, Vigil
February 9 · 41 min
Fun and games
Naomi Alderman with C Thi Nguyen, Keza MacDonald and Stephen Bush.

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