Festival 2018 - The One and the Many

There is no i in Team

MP Johnny Mercer, Theatre Director Elizabeth Newman and former footballer Paul Fletcher.

• 45 mins

Festival 2018 - The One and the Many

Has Social Media Cracked the Code to the Crowd?

Anne McElvoy discusses the impact of tech on the way we behave with guests.

• 45 mins

Festival 2018 - The One and the Many

Are We Afraid of Being Alone?

Sara Maitland, Lionel Shriver and John-Henry Clay explore solitude

• 44 mins

Festival 2018 - The One and the Many

Power to the People?

Anne McElvoy and others assess the influence of people power in Sage, Gateshead.

• 45 mins

Festival 2018 - The One and the Many

Gangs: The Usual Suspects

Symeon Brown, James Docherty and Alistair Fraser chaired by Matthew Sweet.

• 45 mins

Festival 2018 - The One and the Many

Rethinking Civilisations

David Olusoga, Kit Davies and Kenan Malik debate what civilisation means with Philip Dodd.

• 45 mins

Festival 2018 - The One and the Many

Can There Be Multiple Versions of Me?

With June Sarpong, Emma Frankland, Gavin Francis and Julian Baggini.

• 45 mins

Festival 2018 - The One and the Many

Mass Hysterics

Comedians Alexei Sayle, Jen Brister and Sanjeev Kohli join Matthew Sweet at Sage Gateshead

• 44 mins

Festival 2018 - The One and the Many

#Speaking Up

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Afua Hirsch and Tarjinder Wilkinson on activism and Britishness.

• 45 mins

Festival 2018 - The One and the Many

Building Bridges and Other Megastructures

Writer Erica Wagner, engineer Sean Wilkinson and architect Simon Roberts with Rana Mitter.

• 45 mins

Festival 2018 - The One and the Many

Introducing the New Generation Thinkers 2018

From piracy to vegetarianism, George Orwell to surrogacy, Newton's alchemy to C18 fitness.

• 45 mins

Festival 2018 - The One and the Many

What do we mean by 'Working Class Writing'?

Kit de Waal, Darren McGarvey, Adelle Stripe and Michael Chaplin with Shahidha Bari.

• 44 mins

Festival 2018 - The One and the Many

Death Comes to Us All

Richard Holloway, Kathryn Mannix and Kevin Toolis debate the end of life with Philip Dodd.

• 45 mins

British New Wave Films of the '60s

Matthew Sweet evaluates the legacy of the film company behind A Taste of Honey & The Knack

• 45 mins

Macbeth and Things Fall Apart

Jo Nesbø and Mark Ravenhill on the Scottish Play; Chinua Achebe's novel about leadership.

• 45 mins

Marilynne Robinson

The American novelist and essayist talks religion, fiction & US politics with Rana Mitter.

• 45 mins

The Politics of Fashion and Drag

Shahidha Bari talks to Jenny Gilbert about fashion & Scrumbly Koldewyn about The Cockettes

• 45 mins

Shakespeare, Creativity and the Role of the Writer

Warwickshire words in the Bard's verse + the real Cleopatra. And playwright Ella Hickson.

• 45 mins

Learning from Sweden

From IKEA to Bergman and ABBA - Matthew Sweet looks at Sweden's impact on Britain.

• 45 mins

Japan and Nature

The photographs of Mika Ninagawa and the new novel from Hideo Yokoyama, with Anne McElvoy.

• 45 mins

Landmark: Rashomon

David Peace and Natasha Pulley look at the writing of Akutagawa and the film by Kurosawa.

• 44 mins

Tokyo Idols and Urban life

Tomoyuki Hoshino, Suzanne Mooney, Mariko Nagai and Kyoko Miyake on representing city life.

• 45 mins

America: Inequality & Race

Jesmyn Ward, John Edgar Wideman and Sarah Churchwell talk to Christopher Harding.

• 45 mins

Marxism

Anne Applebaum, Gregory Claeys, Jane Humphries and Richard Seymour discuss Marxism now.

• 45 mins

Disrupted Childhood. Turkish Star Wars

Pauline Dakin compares notes with Sally Bayley about a childhood on the run and reading.

• 45 mins

Out of control?

Anne McElvoy looks at why we fight, with former army officer Dr Mike Martin.

• 45 mins

Charms: Madeline Miller; Zoe Gilbert; Kirsty Logan

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough on the renewal of myth, folk and fairy in modern writing.

• 44 mins

What is Speech?

Matthew Sweet and guests discuss talking and speech, including Trevor Cox.

• 45 mins

John Gray, Atheism and Post-structuralism

Matthew Sweet looks at French philosophy and spies and explores belief with John Gray.

• 45 mins

Designing the future

Shahidha Bari looks at Enid Marx, Rennie Mackintosh and Edward Bawden and visits the V&A.

• 45 mins