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Mysterious Plants
Kirsty Wark with Chris Thorogood, Kelsey Byers and William Milliken
Time passing: ageing, memory and nostalgia
Adam Rutherford with Venki Ramakrishnan, Charan Ranganath and Agnes Arnold-Forster
Intrigue and disinformation from the Russian Revolution to Ukraine invasion
Tom Sutcliffe with Andrey Kurkov, Peter Pomerantsev and Charlotte Jee.
Crossing borders and belonging
Adam Rutherford with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Helena Lee and Jessica J Lee.
The war between science and religion
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Taylor, Nick Spencer and Frances Flinter.
Music and poetry
Kirsty Wark discusses poetry and music with Alison Balsom, Graeme Lawson and John Burnside
Power to the people
Tom Sutcliffe discusses democracy with Erica Benner, Alpa Shah and Bobby Duffy.
City living
Adam Rutherford explores the city with Ben Power, Amanda Levete and Simon Kuper.
Alien life and gravity
Tom Sutcliffe with Lisa Kaltenegger, Claudia de Rham and Mark Fromhold
Protest and patriotism
Jackie Kay, Caroline Lucas and Simon Heffer with Adam Rutherford.
Bees – culture and survival
Tom Sutcliffe with Wolfgang Buttress, Claire Preston, Lars Chittka and Alison Benjamin
Art: market, money and malfeasance
Tom Sutcliffe with Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Orlando Whitfield and Angelina Giovani
Reading the Bible
Kirsty Wark swaps Bible stories with Marilynne Robinson, Naomi Alderman and Malika Booker
Hay Festival: ancient wisdom and ecology
Adam Rutherford with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Hugh Warwick and Olivia Laing at Hay Festival
‘Left behind’, but not forgotten
Tom Sutcliffe with Paul Collier, Joanna Kusiak and Matthew Xia.
Politeness and civility
Adam Rutherford with Louise Mullany, John Gallagher, Susie Dent and Matt Forde.
Animal communication
Tom Sutcliffe with Martin Wikelski, Kapka Kassabova and Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas
Weaving magic in words, clay and paper
Kirsty Wark with Kathleen Jamie, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Mark Hearld and Naomi Robertson
On Freedom
Tom Sutcliffe with Timothy Snyder, Oksana Maksymchuk and Lucy Ash
Chance and fortune
Tom Sutcliffe with David Spiegelhalter, Eliza Filby and Roddy Doyle
Ancient India and China: from golden to silk roads
Adam Rutherford with William Dalrymple, Shanay Jhaveri and Susan Whitfield.
Oceans and the game of evolution
Amanda Vickery talks to Richard Powers, Peter Godfrey-Smith and Heather Koldewey.
From Sapiens to AI
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Yuval Noah Harari, Madhumita Murgia and Edith Hall
A duty of care
Adam Rutherford with David Goodhart, Kathryn Faulke and Anna Coote.
Female ambition and control
Tom Sutcliffe with Jade Scott, Zinnie Harris and Stefan Stern.
Ancient crafts: feathers, leather and thatch
Adam Rutherford with James Rebanks, Alice Robinson and Andrew Raffle.
Sex and Christianity
Amanda Vickery with Diarmaid MacCulloch, Helen King and Ruth Padel.
Rise and fall of the political fixer
Tom Sutcliffe with Peter Kosminsky, Lucy Hughes-Hallett and Stephen Bush.
The high street
Adam Rutherford with Annie Gray, Vicky Payne and Angela Hui.
The story of British art - from cave paintings to landscapes
Tom Sutcliffe with Bendor Grosvenor, Susan Owens and Lucinda Rogers.
Security threats and future prospects for Britain and the EU
Shahidha Bari talks to Sir Alex Younger, Armida van Rij and Ross Clark.