China – its poetry and economy

Tom Sutcliffe with Noo Saro-Wiwa, Michael Wood and George Magnus

• 41 mins

Music – from page to performance

Adam Rutherford with Errollyn Wallen, Laurence Cummings and Emma Smith.

• 40 mins

Monet and machine vision

Tom Sutcliffe with Jackie Wullschläger, Mat Collishaw and Jill Walker Rettberg

• 42 mins

Space – the human story

Kirsty Wark with astronaut Tim Peake, writer Samantha Harvey and physicist Roberto Trotta.

• 41 mins

Playing games

Tom Sutcliffe with Marcus du Sautoy, Anthony Bale, Jane Draycott and GT Karber

• 42 mins

Small states: global impact and survival

Adam Rutherford with Armen Sarkissian, Margaret MacMillan and Lyse Doucet

• 41 mins

AI, states and corporations

Tom Sutcliffe with Mike Wooldridge, Naomi Alderman and David Runciman.

• 41 mins

A century of Labour

Tom Sutcliffe with Jon Cruddas, Jane Green and Jonathan White.

• 41 mins

Climate resolutions

Kirsty Wark with Hannah Ritchie, Akshat Rathi and Michael Meredith.

• 41 mins

War crimes justice

Tom Sutcliffe with Gary J Bass, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Christopher Stephen.

• 42 mins

Made out of glass

Adam Rutherford with Jasmine Allen, Ayako Tani, John Parker and Claire Corkhill.

• 42 mins

Opium trade to synthetic opiates

Tom Sutcliffe with Amitav Ghosh, Richard Brittan and Fiona Measham.

• 42 mins

Global influences

Kirsty Wark with Josephine Quinn, Carolina Rangel de Lima and Christopher Harding.

• 42 mins

Arts: changing the world?

Tom Sutcliffe with Ellen E Jones, Hew Locke and Noora Niasari

• 41 mins

Weighty issues

Tom Sutcliffe with Naveed Sattar, Stephanie Yeboah and Henry Dimbleby

• 41 mins

Mysterious Plants

Kirsty Wark with Chris Thorogood, Kelsey Byers and William Milliken

• 41 mins

Time passing: ageing, memory and nostalgia

Adam Rutherford with Venki Ramakrishnan, Charan Ranganath and Agnes Arnold-Forster

• 41 mins

Intrigue and disinformation from the Russian Revolution to Ukraine invasion

Tom Sutcliffe with Andrey Kurkov, Peter Pomerantsev and Charlotte Jee.

• 41 mins

Crossing borders and belonging

Adam Rutherford with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Helena Lee and Jessica J Lee.

• 41 mins

The war between science and religion

Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Taylor, Nick Spencer and Frances Flinter.

• 42 mins

Music and poetry

Kirsty Wark discusses poetry and music with Alison Balsom, Graeme Lawson and John Burnside

• 41 mins

Power to the people

Tom Sutcliffe discusses democracy with Erica Benner, Alpa Shah and Bobby Duffy.

• 41 mins

City living

Adam Rutherford explores the city with Ben Power, Amanda Levete and Simon Kuper.

• 41 mins

Alien life and gravity

Tom Sutcliffe with Lisa Kaltenegger, Claudia de Rham and Mark Fromhold

• 41 mins

Protest and patriotism

Jackie Kay, Caroline Lucas and Simon Heffer with Adam Rutherford.

• 41 mins

Bees – culture and survival

Tom Sutcliffe with Wolfgang Buttress, Claire Preston, Lars Chittka and Alison Benjamin

• 41 mins

Art: market, money and malfeasance

Tom Sutcliffe with Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Orlando Whitfield and Angelina Giovani

• 42 mins

Reading the Bible

Kirsty Wark swaps Bible stories with Marilynne Robinson, Naomi Alderman and Malika Booker

• 41 mins

Hay Festival: ancient wisdom and ecology

Adam Rutherford with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Hugh Warwick and Olivia Laing at Hay Festival

• 42 mins

‘Left behind’, but not forgotten

Tom Sutcliffe with Paul Collier, Joanna Kusiak and Matthew Xia.

• 41 mins