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

Politeness and civility

Adam Rutherford with Louise Mullany, John Gallagher, Susie Dent and Matt Forde.

• 42 mins

Animal communication

Tom Sutcliffe with Martin Wikelski, Kapka Kassabova and Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas

• 42 mins

Weaving magic in words, clay and paper

Kirsty Wark with Kathleen Jamie, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Mark Hearld and Naomi Robertson

• 41 mins

On Freedom

Tom Sutcliffe with Timothy Snyder, Oksana Maksymchuk and Lucy Ash

• 41 mins

Chance and fortune

Tom Sutcliffe with David Spiegelhalter, Eliza Filby and Roddy Doyle

• 41 mins

Ancient India and China: from golden to silk roads

Adam Rutherford with William Dalrymple, Shanay Jhaveri and Susan Whitfield.

• 42 mins

Oceans and the game of evolution

Amanda Vickery talks to Richard Powers, Peter Godfrey-Smith and Heather Koldewey.

• 42 mins

From Sapiens to AI

Tom Sutcliffe talks to Yuval Noah Harari, Madhumita Murgia and Edith Hall

• 42 mins

A duty of care

Adam Rutherford with David Goodhart, Kathryn Faulke and Anna Coote.

• 41 mins

Female ambition and control

Tom Sutcliffe with Jade Scott, Zinnie Harris and Stefan Stern.

• 41 mins

Ancient crafts: feathers, leather and thatch

Adam Rutherford with James Rebanks, Alice Robinson and Andrew Raffle.

• 41 mins

Sex and Christianity

Amanda Vickery with Diarmaid MacCulloch, Helen King and Ruth Padel.

• 42 mins

Rise and fall of the political fixer

Tom Sutcliffe with Peter Kosminsky, Lucy Hughes-Hallett and Stephen Bush.

• 42 mins

The high street

Adam Rutherford with Annie Gray, Vicky Payne and Angela Hui.

• 41 mins

The story of British art - from cave paintings to landscapes

Tom Sutcliffe with Bendor Grosvenor, Susan Owens and Lucinda Rogers.

• 41 mins

Security threats and future prospects for Britain and the EU

Shahidha Bari talks to Sir Alex Younger, Armida van Rij and Ross Clark.

• 41 mins

Acoustics, music and architecture

Tom Sutcliffe with Fiona Smyth, Trevor Cox and Jess Gillam

• 41 mins

Animals – up close and talking

Adam Rutherford with Simon Armitage, Amorina Kingdom and Christian Rutz.

• 41 mins

Human intelligence and imagination

Tom Sutcliffe with Naomi Alderman, Michelle Aroney and Adam Zeman

• 42 mins

Socrates, optimism and racism

Adam Rutherford with Agnes Callard, Sumit Paul-Choudhury and Keon West

• 41 mins

Music and movement; mind and body

Tom Sutcliffe with Daniel Levitin, Nwando Ebizie and Sara Veale

• 42 mins

Climate Crisis: truth, lies and compromise

Adam Rutherford with Mike Berners-Lee, Joe Murphy and Marianne Brown

• 41 mins

Manufacturing and sustainability

Tom Sutcliffe with Tim Minshall, Bernie Bulkin and Fiona Dear.

• 41 mins