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

Wages for Housework – then and now

Shahidha Bari with Emily Callaci, Rosie Campbell and Victoria Smith

• 41 mins

Writing and rewriting history

Tom Sutcliffe with Tom Holland, Moudhy Al-Rashid and Gus Casely-Hayford.

• 42 mins

Community and industrial decline

Adam Rutherford with Sam Wetherell, Yu Jie and Jack Thorne.

• 41 mins

The Great Auk meets Victorian explorers, and zombie ponds

Tom Sutcliffe with Tim Birkhead, Kaliane Bradley and Mark Nowers.

• 41 mins

How political ideology affects the brain

Adam Rutherford with Leor Zmigrod, Iain Dale and John Rees.

• 41 mins

Lockdown and the Covid generation

Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the impact and legacy of Covid lockdown

• 42 mins

Abdulrazak Gurnah on family and resistance

Abdulrazak Gurnah, Samantha Ellis and Jason Allen-Paisant with Shahidha Bari.

• 41 mins

Delusions of grandeur and freedom of speech

Tom Sutcliffe with Grayson Perry, Lionel Shriver and Fara Dabhoiwala

• 41 mins

Untangling fact from fiction

Adam Rutherford with Phil Tinline, Rosie Holt and Adam Kucharski.

• 41 mins

Impunity and fighting for justice

Tom Sutcliffe talks to Philippe Sands, Kenneth Roth and Lina Sinjab

• 41 mins