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BBC Radio 4

Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday

Episodes 27

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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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