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

Christianity and British society

Shahidha Bari with Bishop of Newcastle Helen-Ann Hartley, Bijan Omrani and Lamorna Ash.

• 42 mins

Advocating for nature

Tom Sutcliffe with Robert Macfarlane, Monica Feria-Tinta and Patrick Galbraith.

• 41 mins

Smell – the underrated sense

Adam Rutherford with Jonas Olofsson, Ally Louks and Alan Chalmers.

• 42 mins

History: private, personal and political

Tom Sutcliffe talks to Tiffany Jenkins, Geoff Dyer and Lanre Bakare.

• 41 mins

Mathematics, Symbiosis and Japanese art

Adam Rutherford discusses art, maths and creativity with Marcus du Sautoy.

• 42 mins

Hay Festival: exposing the secrets of rubbish

Tom Sutcliffe at Hay Festival, with Chloe Duckworth, Sarah Gabbott and Saabira Chaudhuri

• 42 mins

The uses and abuses of the atom

Shahidha Bari talks to Frank Close, Tim Gregory and Baroness Natalie Bennett.

• 41 mins

Hidden spaces and dangerous places

Tom Sutcliffe talks to Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Danny Dorling and Adele Zeynep Walton.

• 41 mins

The Idea of Genius

Adam Rutherford talks to Helen Lewis, Francesca Wade and Dean Van Nguyen

• 41 mins