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Monday · 42 min
Napoleon’s marshals and President Trump’s civil servants
Who keeps institutions functioning when power, loyalty and trust break down?
October 12 · 41 min
Inheritance – from stories to genetics
Secrets, myths and ancient DNA reshape our understanding of the past and present
October 5 · 41 min
Jon Ronson: men unravelling
Men in crisis, women under scrutiny and monuments in decay.
September 28 · 42 min
Contains Strong Language Festival in Salford
Simon Armitage, Jade Cuttle and Trevor Cox talk epic adventures, mudlarking and acoustics.
September 21 · 42 min
Carlo Rovelli: complexity and value
Physicist Carlo Rovelli, poet Lavinia Greenlaw and playwright James Graham.
September 14 · 41 min
Living with uncertainty
Xand van Tulleken, Lani Watson and Daniel Mason on certainty and doubt.
September 7 · 42 min
Gordon Brown: The Future Starts with Us
Gordon Brown, Francis Fukuyama and Bronwen Maddox on democracy's future.
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.

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