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Norman
Oct 3, 2019
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Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
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Alien life and gravity
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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City living
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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Power to the people
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Music and poetry
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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The war between science and religion
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Apr 01, 2024 |
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Crossing borders and belonging
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Intrigue and disinformation from the Russian Revolution to Ukraine invasion
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Time passing: ageing, memory and nostalgia
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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Mysterious Plants
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Weighty issues
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Arts: changing the world?
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Global influences
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Opium trade to synthetic opiates
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Made out of glass
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Jan 29, 2024 |
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War crimes justice
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Climate resolutions
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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A century of Labour
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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AI, states and corporations
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Dec 18, 2023 |
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Small states: global impact and survival
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Playing games
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Dec 04, 2023 |
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Space – the human story
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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Monet and machine vision
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Music – from page to performance
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Nov 13, 2023 |
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China – its poetry and economy
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Soundtrack to life
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Infected blood - from scandal to inquiry
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Unruly bodies
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Israel
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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The Iliad and the right to rule
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Contains Strong Language Festival in Leeds
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Homo Sapiens +/-
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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The NHS at 75
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Materials that shape our world
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Sums, stories and musical scores
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Hacking and cybercrime
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Allergies and the Microbiome
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century
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May 29, 2023 |
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Birds and moths
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May 22, 2023 |
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Virtuous bankers?
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May 15, 2023 |
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Monster artist/monstrous art?
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May 08, 2023 |
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Life behind the iron curtain
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May 01, 2023 |
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Ancient trees
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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A place called home
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Ai Weiwei and design values
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Mastering a new skill
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Climate - past, present and future
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Humanism - what is it good for?
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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George Eliot and married life
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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The Iraq War – 20 years on
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Democratic capitalism – marriage on the rocks
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Ancient knowledge
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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The food we eat
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Power, violence and witches
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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The Victims of War
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Videogames – from fantasy to reality
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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The view from Latin America
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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Where are you from?
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Awesome
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Dance Pioneers
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Listening in the dark
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Dec 12, 2022 |
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Returning to the moon
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Faith: lost in translation?
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Taking a stand
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Perfect skin
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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The authentic taste of Britain
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Building the Body, Opening the Heart
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Zombies, exiles and monsters
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Black Britain and beyond
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Power plays and family dynamics
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Political leadership and oversight
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Bradford - Brave New World
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Birmingham
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Health, sickness and exploitation
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Justice, war crimes and targeted killings
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Social inequality - up close
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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A revolution in food and farming
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Family drama at Hay Festival
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May 30, 2022 |
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Learning from apes, fish and wasps
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May 23, 2022 |
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The body clock and sleep
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May 16, 2022 |
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Marwa Al-Sabouni - Rebuilding with hope
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May 09, 2022 |
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Curiosity, ingenuity and experimentation
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May 02, 2022 |
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The age of the strongman leader
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Apr 25, 2022 |
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NoViolet Bulawayo on Glory
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Apr 18, 2022 |
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Love poetry; love books
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Apr 11, 2022 |
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Resistance
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Apr 04, 2022 |
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Liberalism in crisis
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Mar 28, 2022 |
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Welsh identities
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Mar 21, 2022 |
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Feathered friends
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Mar 14, 2022 |
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Creating art; reflecting life
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Mar 07, 2022 |
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Post-war/post-Covid
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Wealth, influence and the global elite
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Stonehenge, and conserving the future
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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The Georgians
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Bullish masculinity
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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Modernism
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Jan 24, 2022 |
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Old battles, new warfare
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Finding consolation and community in reading
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Jan 10, 2022 |
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Vaccinate, ventilate and breathe
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Dec 27, 2021 |
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A musical journey – from the mountains to the multi-storey
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Dec 20, 2021 |
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Living in the Matrix
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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Witches
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Levelling up; halting decline
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Christianity: Changing Fortunes
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Nov 22, 2021 |
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Ancient lives and legacies in Latin America
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Internet influencers and generation gaps
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Nov 08, 2021 |
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Ai Weiwei on creative freedom
|
Nov 01, 2021 |
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Working the land - Orwell and HG Wells
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Rationality in an Irrational Age
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Oct 18, 2021 |
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Views from across the water
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Oct 11, 2021 |
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Images of power
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Colm Tóibín on Thomas Mann
|
Sep 27, 2021 |
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Climate activism: the next generation
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Sep 20, 2021 |
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Life in the first person
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Ali Smith
|
Jun 28, 2021 |
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Jackie Kay on Bessie Smith
|
Jun 21, 2021 |
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London - villain and victim?
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Lionel Shriver on life and death decisions
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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DH Lawrence: life and work
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May 31, 2021 |
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On Thin Ice: Glaciers, Geopolitics, and Nature's Goods
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May 24, 2021 |
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Daniel Kahneman on 'noisy' human judgement
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May 17, 2021 |
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The opioid crisis and erosion of trust
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May 10, 2021 |
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Art - plunder, power and prestige
|
May 03, 2021 |
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Personal faith and the Church
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Apr 26, 2021 |
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What if the Incas had colonised Europe?
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Nuclear destruction
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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Defining mental illness
|
Apr 05, 2021 |
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Trade deals and human rights – in Africa and China
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Newton: science and worldly riches
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Rights and responsibilities
|
Mar 15, 2021 |
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Understanding Melancholy
|
Mar 08, 2021 |
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Monsters of the deep
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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Family struggles - from Greek tragedy to The Troubles
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Feb 22, 2021 |
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Living online and IRL
|
Feb 15, 2021 |
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Empire and class, shaping Britain
|
Feb 08, 2021 |
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The fall of Maxwell – the end of an era.
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Feb 01, 2021 |
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Mariana Mazzucato on moonshot economics
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Francis Bacon revealed
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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Scotland and the Union
|
Jan 11, 2021 |
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Nicholas Hytner
|
Dec 28, 2020 |
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Thomas Becket and the rift between church and state
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Inspiring awe – from the heavens to the oceans
|
Dec 14, 2020 |
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Laughter
|
Dec 07, 2020 |
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Human ingenuity and shared inheritance
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Derrida, Woolf, and the pleasure of reading
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Landscapes real and imagined
|
Nov 16, 2020 |
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Physics in all its glory
|
Nov 09, 2020 |
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Great women of the classics
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Nov 02, 2020 |
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China and the global order
|
Oct 26, 2020 |
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Fake news and data lies: how to win an election
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Oct 19, 2020 |
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Care and compassion
|
Oct 12, 2020 |
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Contested histories
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Oct 05, 2020 |
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Faith in the modern world
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Sep 28, 2020 |
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Claudia Rankine and Margaret Atwood
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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The Radical Agenda
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Sep 14, 2020 |
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Meritocracy and inequality
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Nature notes, from farming to fungi
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Brit Bennett on race, identity and protest
|
Jun 29, 2020 |
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James Joyce
|
Jun 15, 2020 |
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Our coercive politics
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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The Future
|
Jun 01, 2020 |
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Classics and class
|
May 25, 2020 |
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Richard Ford, writing from the edges
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May 18, 2020 |
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Art in an emergency
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May 11, 2020 |
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Globalisation
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May 04, 2020 |
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Changing behaviour, from bystander to actor
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Crisis in Europe from Notre-Dame to coronavirus
|
Apr 20, 2020 |
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Nature worship
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Apr 13, 2020 |
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The genetic gender gap
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Rebuilding conservatism in changing times
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Famous and Infamous
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Mar 23, 2020 |
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Cultural icons from Shakespeare to Superman
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Morality, money and power
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Mar 09, 2020 |
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Hilary Mantel
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Mar 02, 2020 |
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Leila Slimani on Sexual Politics
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Love of home
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Feb 17, 2020 |
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Dresden - 75 years on
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Feb 10, 2020 |
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Artistic influence: Beethoven, Rembrandt and MeToo
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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Grayson Perry - the early years
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Jan 27, 2020 |
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Puritans and God-given government
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Jan 20, 2020 |
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No work, rest and play
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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A house and a home
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Jan 06, 2020 |
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Westminster Abbey
|
Dec 23, 2019 |
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Numbers, nightmares and nanotech
|
Dec 16, 2019 |
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Living near water
|
Dec 09, 2019 |
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India past and present
|
Dec 02, 2019 |
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Love and unreason
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Nov 25, 2019 |
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Life, death and taxes
|
Nov 18, 2019 |
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Animals and us
|
Nov 11, 2019 |
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Nobel Prize winner Esther Duflo
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Nov 04, 2019 |
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The artist - warts and all
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Oct 28, 2019 |
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Breaking bread together
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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Global culture
|
Oct 14, 2019 |
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Lenny Henry
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Oct 07, 2019 |
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Where is power now?
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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Antony Gormley: challenging conventions
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Sep 23, 2019 |
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Escaping the past
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Sep 16, 2019 |
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Epic quests and Greek myths
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Jul 01, 2019 |
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The power of poetry
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Jun 24, 2019 |
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Money - in your pocket and in the bank
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Jun 17, 2019 |
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Beyond the headlines
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Jun 10, 2019 |
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Jared Diamond on national crisis
|
Jun 03, 2019 |
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Hay Festival
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May 27, 2019 |
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Medical controversies
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May 20, 2019 |
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Billy Bragg on anger and hope
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May 13, 2019 |
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Icons of English literature
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May 06, 2019 |
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Freedom: From Kierkegaard to Black Lives Matter
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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Life in the wilderness
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Apr 22, 2019 |
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Ian McEwan
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Apr 15, 2019 |
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Ageing visibly
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Apr 08, 2019 |
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Free Thinking Festival
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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Art for all
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Mar 25, 2019 |
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Understanding China
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Mar 18, 2019 |
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The battle against so-called Islamic State
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Mar 11, 2019 |
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Language and Culture
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Mar 04, 2019 |
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Populations and contested lands
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Feb 25, 2019 |
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The Eye of the Beholder
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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The mind unravelling
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Feb 11, 2019 |
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Who is watching you?
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Feb 04, 2019 |
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The health of science
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Jan 28, 2019 |
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Art, truth and power
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Jan 21, 2019 |
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Violence and Conflict
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Jan 14, 2019 |
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Searching for happiness
|
Jan 07, 2019 |
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Ice and Snow
|
Dec 24, 2018 |
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National myths with Neil MacGregor
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Dec 17, 2018 |
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Trees: a wood wide web
|
Dec 10, 2018 |
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Power in Politics
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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How the World Thinks
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Nov 26, 2018 |
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Safe spaces and snowflakes
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Nov 19, 2018 |
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Poland: A hundred years of history
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Nov 12, 2018 |
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Reporting from the Front Line
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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That's not fair
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Nov 05, 2018 |
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Pirates
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Oct 22, 2018 |
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Identity Politics
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Oct 15, 2018 |
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What's Your Type?
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Oct 08, 2018 |
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Yuval Noah Harari
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Oct 01, 2018 |
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From Ubermensch to Superman
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Sep 24, 2018 |
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David Attenborough: Life on Earth and Beyond
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Sep 17, 2018 |
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The Reality of War
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Sep 10, 2018 |
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Storytelling at the Edinburgh Festivals
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Aug 27, 2018 |
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British culture and European influence
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Jul 02, 2018 |
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Shame, Status and Self-invention
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Jun 25, 2018 |
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Deserts and the Nuclear Age
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Jun 18, 2018 |
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Altered Minds
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Jun 11, 2018 |
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Arundhati Roy on castes and outcasts
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Jun 04, 2018 |
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Survival and Destruction
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May 28, 2018 |
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Dark Satanic Mills
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May 21, 2018 |
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Jordan Peterson: Rules for Life
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May 14, 2018 |
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The Death of Democracy
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May 07, 2018 |
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Mysteries of the Universe
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Apr 30, 2018 |
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Life Is a Dream
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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1968: Radicals and Riots
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Apr 16, 2018 |
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The Good Samaritan
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Apr 09, 2018 |
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Faith and Doubt
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Apr 02, 2018 |
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Love and Loss
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Mar 26, 2018 |
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In Praise of Passion
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Mar 19, 2018 |
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Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead
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Mar 12, 2018 |
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Art and Civilisations
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Mar 05, 2018 |
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Who Am I? The Brain and Personality
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Feb 26, 2018 |
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Fascism and the Enlightenment with Steven Pinker
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Feb 19, 2018 |
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Rise and Fall of the City
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Feb 12, 2018 |
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Money Makes the World Go Around
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Feb 05, 2018 |
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Mohsin Hamid on leaving home
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Jan 29, 2018 |
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The Power of Art
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Jan 22, 2018 |
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Peter Carey on legacies of the past
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Jan 15, 2018 |
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Votes for Women
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Jan 08, 2018 |
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Who governs Britain?
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Dec 18, 2017 |
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The power and beauty of objects.
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Dec 11, 2017 |
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Russia, religion and the Middle East
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Dec 04, 2017 |
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Finland at 100
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Nov 27, 2017 |
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Blood, guts and swearing robots
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Nov 20, 2017 |
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Anger and deprivation
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Nov 13, 2017 |
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Heart of Darkness: Conrad and Orwell
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Nov 06, 2017 |
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Animals: tamed, exploited and resurrected
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Oct 30, 2017 |
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Living with the Gods
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Oct 23, 2017 |
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The End of War?
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Oct 16, 2017 |
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Russian Revolution a hundred years on
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Oct 09, 2017 |
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Power, the People and the Party
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Oct 02, 2017 |
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Hard work and sweet slumber
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Sep 25, 2017 |
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Orhan Pamuk on competing myths
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Sep 18, 2017 |
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Les Misérables: novel of the century?
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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From Darwin to Big Data with Richard Dawkins
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Jul 03, 2017 |
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Power: Fleet Street and Whitehall
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Jun 26, 2017 |
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Health Inequality: TB, Trauma and Technology
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Jun 19, 2017 |
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Crossing the Boundaries of Gender, Race and Class
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Jun 12, 2017 |
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Inventing the Self: Fact and Fiction
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Jun 05, 2017 |
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Live from the Hay Festival
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May 29, 2017 |
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India's Rise?
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May 22, 2017 |
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Post-Truth and Revolution
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May 15, 2017 |
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Kate Tempest: Everyday Epic
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May 08, 2017 |
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Wendell Berry: The Natural World
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May 02, 2017 |
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Eliza Carthy and Nicholas Hytner: Art for All
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Apr 24, 2017 |
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The Age of Spectacle?
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Apr 17, 2017 |
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Christianity: Luther's Legacy
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Apr 10, 2017 |
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Dissecting Death
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Apr 03, 2017 |
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Sayeeda Warsi: Muslims in Britain
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Mar 27, 2017 |
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The Free Thinking Festival at Sage Gateshead
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Mar 20, 2017 |
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Britain Divided: 1642-2016
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Mar 13, 2017 |
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Paul Auster and the American Dream
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Mar 06, 2017 |
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'Build That Wall': Barriers and Crossings
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Feb 27, 2017 |
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Sidney Nolan: Life and Work
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Feb 20, 2017 |
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Play and Creativity
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Feb 13, 2017 |
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Paul Abbott: finding comedy in the tragic
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Feb 06, 2017 |
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Turkey: Past and Present
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Jan 30, 2017 |
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Sara Khan: The Battle within Islam
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Jan 16, 2017 |
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Chibundu Onuzo and Martin Sixsmith on corruption and family drama
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Jan 09, 2017 |
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Maps, Music and Medieval Manuscripts
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Dec 26, 2016 |
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Scientific Discoveries: from the mind to the cosmos
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Dec 19, 2016 |
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The Bolshoi and Culture Wars
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Dec 12, 2016 |
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Popular Protest and Patriotism
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Dec 05, 2016 |
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AIDS Activism and Surviving a Plague
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Nov 28, 2016 |
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Rewriting the Past: from Empire to ivory
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Nov 21, 2016 |
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Island Mentality
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Nov 14, 2016 |
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Virtue and Vice
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Nov 07, 2016 |
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Alan Bennett
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Oct 31, 2016 |
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Microbes, Genes and Human Endeavour
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Oct 24, 2016 |
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Soldiering on: the British Army, Lenin and Putin
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Oct 04, 2016 |
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Radical Liverpool
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Sep 26, 2016 |
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Political Drama: Robert Harris and Margaret Hodge
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Sep 19, 2016 |
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Love, Loss and Scandal
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Jul 04, 2016 |
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Food: From Bread Riots to Obesity
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Jun 27, 2016 |
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A Theory of Everything?
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Jun 20, 2016 |
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New Artistic Director of the ENO, Daniel Kramer
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Jun 13, 2016 |
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Genes: Our medical inheritance
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Jun 06, 2016 |
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Hay Festival: Spooks, war and genocide
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May 30, 2016 |
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Lost and Found: Ancient Egypt to Modern Art
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May 23, 2016 |
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World on the Move
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May 16, 2016 |
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Technology in Education
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May 09, 2016 |
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Cross-dressing and masculinity with Grayson Perry
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May 02, 2016 |
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Anish Kapoor on Light and Dark
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Apr 25, 2016 |
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Reporting War and Conflict
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Apr 18, 2016 |
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Loneliness and Inner Voices
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Apr 11, 2016 |
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Greece and the Eurozone with Yanis Varoufakis
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Apr 04, 2016 |
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Existentialism and Ways of Seeing
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Mar 28, 2016 |
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Is Faster Better?
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Mar 21, 2016 |
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The Easter Rising: 100 Years On
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Mar 14, 2016 |
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Scotland
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Mar 07, 2016 |
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Nature or Nurture?
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Feb 29, 2016 |
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Future Economies
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Feb 22, 2016 |
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Who Owns Culture?
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Feb 15, 2016 |
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Mind and Body
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Feb 08, 2016 |
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Language and Reinvention
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Feb 01, 2016 |
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Migration and Citizenship
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Jan 25, 2016 |
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Alaa Al Aswany on Egypt
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Jan 18, 2016 |
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Russia: Tsars to Putin
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Jan 11, 2016 |
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Shakespeare's Late Plays - recorded at the Globe's Playhouse
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Dec 28, 2015 |
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Space Survival and Exploration
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Dec 21, 2015 |
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Cultural Lifespans
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Dec 14, 2015 |
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Reforming Saudi Arabia
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Dec 07, 2015 |
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Augustine, Desire, Doing good
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Nov 30, 2015 |
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Jonathan Coe on Satire
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Nov 23, 2015 |
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France Special
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Nov 16, 2015 |
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Claudia Rankine at the Free Thinking Festival
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Nov 09, 2015 |
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Embracing Failure and Uncertainty
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Nov 02, 2015 |
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Social Class and Cultural Capital
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Oct 26, 2015 |
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Power and Corruption with Stephen Frears and Mary Beard
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Oct 19, 2015 |
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Kissinger
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Oct 12, 2015 |
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Jonathan Franzen
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Oct 05, 2015 |
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Celts and Romans
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Sep 28, 2015 |
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Edmund de Waal on Porcelain
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Sep 21, 2015 |
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Harmony and Balance
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Jul 06, 2015 |
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Alan Watts and the Way of Translation
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Jun 29, 2015 |
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Architecture and power - from Stalinist structures to model villages
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Jun 22, 2015 |
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The Value of Art with Grayson Perry and Hannah Rothschild
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Jun 15, 2015 |
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Illness: Psychosomatic and Physical
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Jun 08, 2015 |
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Saul Bellow and Finding a Voice
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Jun 01, 2015 |
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Hay Festival
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May 27, 2015 |
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Joseph Stiglitz and Steve Hilton on Inequality
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May 18, 2015 |
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Values from Ancient Greece to Contemporary Harlem
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May 11, 2015 |
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Vikram Seth
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May 04, 2015 |
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Violence
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Apr 27, 2015 |
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Life Underwater
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Apr 21, 2015 |
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David Sloan Wilson on Altruism
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Apr 13, 2015 |
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The Amazons
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Apr 06, 2015 |
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Lewis Carroll and the Story of Alice.
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Mar 30, 2015 |
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Susan Pinker on the benefits of face-to-face contact
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Mar 23, 2015 |
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Shame, with Jon Ronson
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Mar 16, 2015 |
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The Mathematical Mind with Cedric Villani
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Mar 09, 2015 |
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From Fringe to Frontline?
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Mar 02, 2015 |
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Joseph Nye on Soft Power
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Feb 16, 2015 |
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Life in Suburbia
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Feb 09, 2015 |
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The Rise of Islamic State
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Feb 02, 2015 |
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Organising the Mind
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Jan 26, 2015 |
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Surveillance and Self-censorship
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Jan 20, 2015 |
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The Tudors
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Jan 12, 2015 |
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Sense of Place
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Dec 29, 2014 |
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Hedonism
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Dec 22, 2014 |
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Reinventing Inventions
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Dec 15, 2014 |
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Arabian Nights
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Dec 08, 2014 |
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Evolution and Extinction
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Dec 01, 2014 |
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Science Fiction
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Nov 24, 2014 |
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Self-Portrayal
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Nov 17, 2014 |
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A Good Death
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Nov 10, 2014 |
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The Language of Money
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Nov 03, 2014 |
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Revolution
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Oct 27, 2014 |
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Napoleon
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Oct 20, 2014 |
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Crime Stories and Ghost Stories
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Oct 13, 2014 |
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Naomi Klein on climate change and growth
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Oct 06, 2014 |
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Karen Armstrong on War and Religion
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Sep 29, 2014 |
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Hilary Mantel
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Sep 22, 2014 |
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Tom Sutcliffe discusses family secrets and Scottish royalty
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Jul 07, 2014 |
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The Science of the Mind
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Jun 30, 2014 |
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Joyce DiDonato and Julie Bindel on Women Behaving Badly
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Jun 23, 2014 |
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Pain and Prejudice
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Jun 16, 2014 |
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What Is the State For?
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Jun 09, 2014 |
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Rod Liddle on the selfish generation
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Jun 02, 2014 |
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Charleston Festival
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May 23, 2014 |
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Alien Invaders
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May 19, 2014 |
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The Myth of the Strong Leader?
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May 12, 2014 |
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Simon Armitage on Greek Tragedy
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May 02, 2014 |
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The Future of Capitalism
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Apr 28, 2014 |
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James Lovelock
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Apr 21, 2014 |
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Lucy Worsley on the Georgians
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Apr 14, 2014 |
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Police drama with playwright Roy Williams
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Apr 07, 2014 |
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AL Kennedy and David Sedaris on matters of the heart
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Mar 31, 2014 |
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Faisal I of Iraq and the making of the modern Middle East
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Mar 24, 2014 |
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Decision-making with Daniel Kahneman and Michael Ignatieff
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Mar 17, 2014 |
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Andrew Hussey on the legacy of France's Arab Empire
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Mar 10, 2014 |
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The Vikings and Seafaring
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Mar 03, 2014 |
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Adair Turner on the Politics of Finance
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Feb 24, 2014 |
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Vanessa Feltz and Susie Orbach on Confession
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Feb 17, 2014 |
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Irving Finkel on the Ark Tablet
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Feb 10, 2014 |
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Spying and Surveillance: The Snowden Files
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Jan 29, 2014 |
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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
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Jan 24, 2014 |
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Neuroscience and Free Will
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Jan 20, 2014 |
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Unity and Disunity
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Jan 09, 2014 |
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Michael Gove on teaching history
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Dec 30, 2013 |
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Clive James
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Dec 23, 2013 |
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Josie Rourke on strategy and Coriolanus
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Dec 12, 2013 |
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The Building Blocks of Life and Intelligence
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Dec 09, 2013 |
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Landscape and Community
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Dec 02, 2013 |
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Bianca Jagger on human rights
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Nov 25, 2013 |
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Gandhi's Early Years
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Nov 18, 2013 |
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Andrew Marr on poet George Herbert
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Nov 11, 2013 |
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Fiona Shaw; Simon McBurney; Journeys Into the Unknown
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Nov 04, 2013 |
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The Kremlin: A fortress that has shaped a nation
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Oct 28, 2013 |
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Paul Collier on Immigration Controls
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Oct 17, 2013 |
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Grayson Perry on contemporary art
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Oct 14, 2013 |
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Victorian Revivalism
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Oct 04, 2013 |
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Greek myth and the Indian epic Ramayana
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Sep 27, 2013 |
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Jamal Edwards on 'digital natives'
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Sep 23, 2013 |
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Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Future
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Sep 16, 2013 |
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Population: Ten Billion
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Jul 01, 2013 |
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Zadie Smith on social mobility
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Jun 24, 2013 |
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Hari Kunzru and Dystopia
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Jun 17, 2013 |
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Putin's Russia
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Jun 10, 2013 |
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Fairy Tale Physics?
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Jun 03, 2013 |
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Eric Schmidt on the New Digital Age
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May 27, 2013 |
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Antonia Fraser: Democracy and Reform
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May 20, 2013 |
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Music and the mind: Carrie Cracknell
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May 13, 2013 |
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Michael Rosen at the Brighton Festival
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May 06, 2013 |
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Gavin Turk on the Value of Art
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Apr 29, 2013 |
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Bernardo Bertolucci
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Apr 19, 2013 |
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The Origin and Future of Life
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Apr 15, 2013 |
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'Home' and cultural identity with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Apr 08, 2013 |
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Tom Sutcliffe talks to John Gray and Mary Beard
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Apr 01, 2013 |
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Mohsin Hamid talks about How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
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Mar 25, 2013 |
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Lisa Jardine talks to David Cannadine and Aleksandar Hemon
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Mar 15, 2013 |
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Ken Loach on post-war Britain
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Mar 11, 2013 |
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Feminism: Natasha Walter and Catherine Hakim
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Mar 04, 2013 |
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The Commonwealth - Don McKinnon and Kwasi Kwarteng
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Feb 25, 2013 |
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Mathematical modelling with Lisa Jardine
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Feb 11, 2013 |
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Al-Qaeda: Afghanistan to Mali
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Feb 04, 2013 |
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Political Writing: Joan Bakewell and Tim Montgomerie
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Jan 28, 2013 |
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History of Music - John Adams and Howard Goodall
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Jan 21, 2013 |
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Natural Capital: Tony Juniper
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Jan 14, 2013 |
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Family Secrets: Sarah Dunant and Deborah Cohen
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Jan 09, 2013 |
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The Human Voice: Rolando Villazon and Mark-Anthony Turnage
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Dec 24, 2012 |
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Science Special
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Dec 17, 2012 |
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Scotland - Ian Rankin and Alasdair Gray
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Dec 10, 2012 |
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Nuclear Iran - Shirley Williams and Geoffrey Robertson
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Dec 03, 2012 |
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Germany and the EU
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Nov 26, 2012 |
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Art and Design with Antony Gormley and Ron Arad
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Nov 19, 2012 |
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Award-winning film director Kevin Macdonald
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Nov 12, 2012 |
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Political Divide: Mary Robinson and Michael Ignatieff
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Nov 05, 2012 |
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Torture, terrorism and secrets
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Oct 29, 2012 |
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Modernism with Ali Smith and Kevin Jackson
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Oct 22, 2012 |
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Richard Ford on the US Elections
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Oct 15, 2012 |
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Diana Athill and Philip Hensher on the dying art of handwriting
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Oct 08, 2012 |
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Anne Applebaum on Eastern Europe
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Oct 01, 2012 |
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Grimm Tales with Philip Pullman
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Sep 20, 2012 |
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Salman Rushdie
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Sep 17, 2012 |
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National Identity with Maajid Nawaz and Sir Christopher Meyer.
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Jul 02, 2012 |
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The 'life unlived' with Adam Phillips and Helen Dunmore
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Jun 25, 2012 |
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Science and Politics: Professor David Nutt and David Blunkett
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Jun 18, 2012 |
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WWII with Antony Beevor and Max Hastings
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Jun 11, 2012 |
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Grayson Perry at the Charleston Festival
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Jun 04, 2012 |
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Thomas Heatherwick on design and architecture
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May 28, 2012 |
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Michael Sandel on Money and Morality
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May 21, 2012 |
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Spain in Crisis
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May 11, 2012 |
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The Digital Future
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May 07, 2012 |
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Creativity: Jonah Lehrer
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Apr 30, 2012 |
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Iain Banks and David Hare
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Apr 20, 2012 |
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China
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Apr 16, 2012 |
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Peter Carey on Start the Week
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Apr 09, 2012 |
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The 'death of socialism'?
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Apr 02, 2012 |
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Werner Herzog on Start the Week
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Mar 26, 2012 |
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Nobel Prize winning author, Nadine Gordimer
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Mar 19, 2012 |
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Writers on Families: Colm Tóibín and AS Byatt
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Mar 12, 2012 |
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Middle Age: David Bainbridge, Deborah Moggach, Simon Armitage and Claudia Hammond
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Mar 05, 2012 |
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Faith and Doubt: Richard Holloway, Karen Armstrong, Jonathan Safran Foer and Helen Edmundson
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Feb 27, 2012 |
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Ian Stewart, Peter Randall-Page, Mark Miodownik, Jane Rapley
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Feb 20, 2012 |
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Elizabethans: Max Hastings, Mary Beard, John Guy and Lola Young
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Feb 13, 2012 |
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Conservatism: Peter Hitchens, Margot James, Douglas Murray and Thomas Frank
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Feb 06, 2012 |
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Revolution: Wael Ghonim, Paul Mason and Mary King
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Jan 30, 2012 |
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Justice: with Simon Stephens, John Podmore, Shami Chakrabarti and Mike Hough
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Jan 23, 2012 |
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Financial Crisis: Philip Coggan, Angela Knight, Maurice Glasman and Detlev Schlichter
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Jan 16, 2012 |
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Austerity: Antony Gormley, David Kynaston and Anna Coote
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Jan 09, 2012 |
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David Hockney Special
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Dec 26, 2011 |
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The Spirit of Christmas: Claire Tomalin, Susan Hill and Canon Giles Fraser
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Dec 19, 2011 |
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12/12/2011
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Dec 12, 2011 |
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Philosophy: Bernard-Henri Levy, Mary Warnock and Roger Scruton
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Dec 05, 2011 |
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Political leadership: George Ayittey, Simon Heffer, Martin Wolf and Maha Azzam
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Nov 28, 2011 |
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The Arts and politics: Rory Bremner, Peter Kosminsky and Iwona Blazwick
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Nov 21, 2011 |
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Writing History with Peter Englund, Norman Davies, Boris Johnson and Alison Weir.
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Nov 14, 2011 |
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Australian culture with Thomas Keneally, Kate Grenville and Deborah Cheetham
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Nov 10, 2011 |
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31/10/2011
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Oct 31, 2011 |
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24/10/2011
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Oct 24, 2011 |
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God and science with the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Richard Dawkins and Lisa Randall
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Oct 17, 2011 |
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Empire with Jeremy Paxman and Richard Gott
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Oct 10, 2011 |
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Afghanistan and the British Secret Service with Rory Stewart, Frank Ledwidge and Gordon Corera
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Oct 03, 2011 |
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Simon Jenkins' History of England, and the National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke
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Sep 26, 2011 |
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19/09/2011
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Sep 19, 2011 |
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Vasily Grossman: his life and legacy
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Sep 12, 2011 |
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04/07/2011
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Jul 04, 2011 |
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27/06/2011
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Jun 27, 2011 |
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20/06/2011
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Jun 20, 2011 |
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13/06/2011
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Jun 13, 2011 |
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06/06/2011
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Jun 06, 2011 |
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30/05/2011
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May 30, 2011 |
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23/05/2011
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May 23, 2011 |
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16/05/2011
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May 16, 2011 |
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09/05/2011
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May 09, 2011 |
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02/05/2011
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May 02, 2011 |
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25/04/2011
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Apr 25, 2011 |
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18/04/2011
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Apr 18, 2011 |
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11/04/2011
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Apr 11, 2011 |
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04/04/2011
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Apr 04, 2011 |
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28/03/2011
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Mar 28, 2011 |
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21/03/2011
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Mar 21, 2011 |
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14/03/2011
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Mar 14, 2011 |
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07/03/2011
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Mar 07, 2011 |
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28/02/2011
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Feb 28, 2011 |
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21/02/2011
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Feb 21, 2011 |
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14/02/2011
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Feb 14, 2011 |
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07/02/2011
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Feb 07, 2011 |
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31/01/2011
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Jan 31, 2011 |
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24/01/2011
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Jan 24, 2011 |
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17/01/2011
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Jan 17, 2011 |
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10/01/2011
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Jan 10, 2011 |
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27/12/2010
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Dec 27, 2010 |
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20/12/2010
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Dec 20, 2010 |
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13/12/2010
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Dec 13, 2010 |
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06/12/2010
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Dec 06, 2010 |
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29/11/2010
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Nov 29, 2010 |
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22/11/2010
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Nov 22, 2010 |
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15/11/2010
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Nov 15, 2010 |
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08/11/2010
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Nov 08, 2010 |
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01/11/2010
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Nov 01, 2010 |
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25/10/2010
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Oct 25, 2010 |
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18/10/2010
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Oct 18, 2010 |
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11/10/2010
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Oct 11, 2010 |
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04/10/2010
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Oct 04, 2010 |
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27/09/2010
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Sep 27, 2010 |
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20/09/2010
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