2013 Festival

Controlling Moods and Minds: Depression and Smart Drugs

A debate about depression, decision-making and the morality of medical treatments.

• 45 mins

2013 Festival

Teaching the Teachers: The Future of Education

Lecture in which Professor Sugata Mitra talks about teaching ourselves using computers.

• 45 mins

2013 Festival

An Interview with John Waters

Filmmaker John Waters talks to Samira Ahmed about Hairspray, hitchhiking and Baltimore.

• 45 mins

2013 Festival

Controlling the Countryside

Fiona Reynolds and Simon Thurley discuss planning and power pressures on rural areas.

• 45 mins

2013 Festival

Who's Got Hold of Children's Imaginations?

Authors Patrick Ness and Professor Charles Fernyhough discuss children's imaginations.

• 45 mins

2013 Festival

Boneless, Bloodaxe and Hairy Breeches: What Did the Vikings Ever Do for Us?

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the power battles between Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings.

• 15 mins

2013 Festival

The Real Game of Thrones: Power in 15th-Century England

Sarah Peverley explores shifts in royal power during the Wars of the Roses.

• 15 mins

2013 Festival

False Conception: Female Sexuality in Victorian England

New Generation Thinker Fern Riddell discusses women's rights activist Annie Besant.

• 15 mins

2013 Festival

Breeding the Mongrel: Language Wars in Early Modern England

John Gallagher on how 16th and 17th-century global travellers shaped English speech.

• 15 mins

2013 Festival

In Search of Ecstasy

Jules Evans explores rationalists' suspicions about states of high elation.

• 15 mins

2013 Festival

Wombs on Legs? Science Fiction and the Control of Reproduction

Sarah Dillon explores roles for women in science fiction and asks if the genre is sexist.

• 15 mins

2013 Festival

Autobiographical Memory and Contemporary Fiction

Alice Hall explores the effect of blogs, YouTube and phone apps on telling life stories.

• 15 mins

2013 Festival

Science and Sensibility

Gregory Tate asks what controls humans: rational thought or unconscious emotion.

• 15 mins

2013 Festival

Cutting Tradition

Rebecca Steinfeld investigates the place of religious traditions involving genital cutting

• 15 mins

2013 Festival

Therapy Versus Prayer

Christopher Harding explores religion and counselling in Japan and the UK.

• 15 mins

2013 Festival

Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

A discussion asking if maps can reveal too much and how they direct our thinking.

• 45 mins

2013 Festival

Are Audiences Killing Culture?

Matthew Sweet presents a debate asking if the arts are leading or following public taste.

• 45 mins

2013 Festival

What's Eating You?

Authors Lionel Shriver and Val Curtis ask if we are too obsessed with food and body image.

• 45 mins

2013 Festival

Whose Strife Is It Anyway?

Who has the right to depict the experiences of the powerless? Rana Mitter chairs a debate.

• 45 mins

2013 Festival

Penny Woolcock

Director Penny Woolcock talks to Samira Ahmed about working in opera and film.

• 45 mins

European Cities on the Brink of War

AS Byatt, Alexandra Harris, Neil Brand and Philipp Blom on culture in Europe pre-WWI.

• 45 mins

Breaking Free: Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities

William Boyd, Margaret Drabble and Matthew Sweet discuss Musil's The Man Without Qualities

• 45 mins

Landmark: George Dangerfield's The Strange Death of Liberal England

Philip Dodd and guests discuss George Dangerfield's The Strange Death of Liberal England.

• 45 mins

TS Eliot Prize, Rebecca Lenkiewicz on The Oresteia

Sinéad Morrissey on winning the TS Eliot poetry prize; Rebecca Lenkiewicz on The Oresteia.

• 45 mins

Girls, Daniel Alarcon, The Constitution

Presented by Samira Ahmed. With the TV series Girls, Daniel Alarcon and the constitution.

• 45 mins

Oscar Nominations, Steve McQueen, Slavery Narratives

Director Steve McQueen talks to Matthew Sweet talks about his new film 12 Years a Slave.

• 45 mins

Suicide; black British actors; Roma; audio games

Matthew Sweet explores the sound of gaming and the way we talk about suicide.

• 45 mins

Japanese History, Chinese Democracy

Rana Mitter talks to Zhang Weiwei, one of China's leading public intellectuals.

• 45 mins

Simon Russell Beale; Derek Jarman

Simon Russell Beale talks about playing King Lear; an appraisal of Derek Jarman's career.

• 45 mins

Martin Creed, Feminism in Theatre, Pete Seeger

Matthew Sweet discusses the work of artist Martin Creed and debates feminism in theatre.

• 45 mins