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Lena Dunham: Famesick, with Dolly Alderton (Part Two)

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Lena Dunham: Famesick, with Dolly Alderton (Part One)

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The Age of Growth: Live in Partnership with IBM

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Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby on The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence (Part Two)

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Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby on The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence (Part One)

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How Does Chemistry Shape our World? With Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu

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Why Did Elite Cambridge Graduates Become Soviet Spies? Revisiting the Cambridge Five, with Antonia Senior

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How Will the Climate Crisis Reshape Global Politics? With Former Diplomat and Author, Arthur Snell

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Is There a Crisis of Overdiagnosis in Modern Medicine? With Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan

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How Has Translation Transformed Shakespeare? With Daniel Hahn

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Should You Be Talking To AI? with Jamie Bartlett

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Who Are Renoir’s Mystery Girls? With Catherine Ostler

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Stalin vs Trotsky: The Assassination That Changed History, with Josh Ireland

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Can Discomfort Be the Key to a Better Life? With Ken Rideout

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How and Why did Sexual Reproduction Evolve on our Planet? With Dr Lixing Sun

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Hungry for Life! An Evening with Prue Leith (Part Two)

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Hungry for Life! An Evening with Prue Leith (Part One)

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How deeply was the British Crown involved in the transatlantic slave trade? With author of The Crown’s Silence, Brooke Newman

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The Specialist | The Coin Worth More Than Its Weight in Gold, with Selby Kiffer and David Tripp

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Why Are Populists Winning? With Liam Byrne and Will Hutton

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How To Overcome Trauma, With Psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead (Part Two)

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How To Overcome Trauma, With Psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead (Part One)

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How Has Living With Animals Shaped Our Brains? With Michael Bond

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The Specialist | From Canvas to Canon: Joan Mitchell’s King of Spades, with Courtney Kremers

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Why Are Ancient Myths Resurfacing in Modern Britain? With Zakia Sewell

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Sex, Gender and Christianity: A 3,000 Year History, with Diarmaid MacCulloch and Mary Beard (Part Two)

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Sex, Gender and Christianity: A 3,000 Year History, with Diarmaid MacCulloch and Mary Beard (Part One)

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Is the Russia–Ukraine War a Failure of Strategy? With Lawrence Freedman

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What Is Really at Stake at the North Pole? With Neil Shea

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Sotheby's Talks | How Do Objects Achieve Iconic Status, with Grayson Perry and Xa Sturgis

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Fiona Hill: The World in 2026 (Part Two)

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Fiona Hill: The World in 2026 (Part One)

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How has American hubris shaped Iran? With Scott Anderson

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What Does It Take to Run Goldman Sachs During a Meltdown? With Former CEO Lloyd Blankfein

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CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Trump, Iran and the World in 2026 (Part Two)

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CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Trump, Iran and the World in 2026 (Part One)

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Fatima Bhutto on Grief, Survival, and the Life-Affirming Love of Canine Companions

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Are Lithium and Cobalt the New Oil? The Elements of Power, with Nicolas Niarchos

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The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson on Afghanistan: An American Catastrophe (Part Two)

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The New Yorker’s Jon Lee Anderson on Afghanistan: An American Catastrophe (Part One)

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The Specialist | Jackie O's Faux Pearls, with Frank Everett

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Could Silicon Valley Billionaires Cure Aging? With Aleks Krotoski

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Will AI Design New Organisms From Scratch? With Adrian Woolfson

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Is it Game Over for Keir Starmer? Martin Wolf for The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook 2026 (Part Two)

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Is it Game Over for Keir Starmer? Martin Wolf for The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook 2026 (Part One)

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Fascism, Exile, and Redefining Home in the 21st Century, with Ece Temelkuran

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Why Changing How You Breathe Can Transform Your Health, with James Nestor

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The Trillion Dollar Battle For Your Attention, with Peter Schmidt and D. Graham Burnett

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Sir Sajid Javid – Lessons From the Front Bench (Part Two)

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Sir Sajid Javid – Lessons From the Front Bench (Part One)

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Can Water Shape Our Future?

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Julian Barnes in conversation with Ian McEwan (Part Two)

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Julian Barnes in conversation with Ian McEwan (Part One)

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Why Can’t We Stop Money Laundering? With Oliver Bullough

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Is the Arctic the World’s Next War Zone? With Kenneth R. Rosen

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Implementing and scaling AI agents in business

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Happy Mind, Happy Life, with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

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Can Britain Become an AI Superpower? The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook (Part Two)

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Can Britain Become an AI Superpower? The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook (Part One)

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How To Take the Pressure Off and Live Well, with Claudia Hammond (Part Two)

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How To Take the Pressure Off and Live Well, with Claudia Hammond (Part One)

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Is Greece Becoming the New Borderland Between East and West? With Sean Matthews

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An Evening with Alan Davies (Part Two)

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An Evening with Alan Davies (Part One)

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How is Artificial Intelligence Transforming our Relationships? With James Muldoon

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Julia Ioffe and Clarissa Ward on Putin, Russia and the Women Fighting For A Better Future (Part Two)

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Julia Ioffe and Clarissa Ward on Putin, Russia and the Women Fighting For A Better Future (Part One)

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Jonathan Freedland on The Secret Rebels who Defied Hitler (Part Two)

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Jonathan Freedland on The Secret Rebels who Defied Hitler (Part One)

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The Remarkable True Story of The Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970’s, with Jason Burke (Part Two)

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The Remarkable True Story of The Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970’s, with Jason Burke (Part One)

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How Tech Platforms Threaten Our Future, With Former White House Advisor Tim Wu (Part Two)

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How Tech Platforms Threaten Our Future, With Former White House Advisor Tim Wu (Part One)

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How Philosophy Explains Our World, with Julian Baggini (Part Two)

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How Philosophy Explains Our World, with Julian Baggini (Part One)

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Michael Rosen on Hope, Happiness and Finding Joy in the Small Things (Part Two)

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Michael Rosen on Hope, Happiness and Finding Joy in the Small Things (Part One)

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Women’s Prize-winner Rachel Clarke in conversation with Rob Delaney (Part Two)

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Women’s Prize-winner Rachel Clarke in conversation with Rob Delaney (Part One)

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The Specialist | The Anonymous Altarpiece: Decoding a Renaissance Enigma, with Alex Bell

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Have We Finally Solved The Mystery of Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring? With Andrew Graham-Dixon

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Everything Starts With Water

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Putin, The Soviet Union and The Rise of Russian Imperialism, with Mikhail Zygar (Part Two)

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Putin, The Soviet Union and The Rise of Russian Imperialism, with Mikhail Zygar (Part One)

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The Intelligence Squared Economic Outlook with Jeremy Hunt

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Rory Stewart on Trump, Nationalism and The Value of Rural Life (Part Two)

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Rory Stewart on Trump, Nationalism and The Value of Rural Life (Part One)

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Is Alex Karp the Philosopher of Silicon Valley? With Michael Steinberger

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The Courage to Lead, with Sanna Marin, Former Prime Minister of Finland (Part Two)

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The Courage to Lead, with Sanna Marin, Former Prime Minister of Finland (Part One)

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Trump, Markets and The Greatest Crash in U.S. History, with Andrew Ross Sorkin (Part Two)

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Trump, Markets and The Greatest Crash in U.S. History, with Andrew Ross Sorkin (Part One)

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The Specialist | Virgil Abloh’s Reimagining of the Iconic Nike Air Force 1 for Louis Vuitton, with Brahm Wachter

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Why Do Authoritarians Want To Control The News? With Martin Moore

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What Does Test Cricket Reveal About the Legacy of Empire? With Tim Wigmore

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Does modern medicine need to drop the distinction between mental and physical health? With Professor Edward Bullmore

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Is Vivaldi Still the Soundtrack of the Seasons? With Dr Hannah French

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What Stories Are Written in The Rock Beneath Us? With Dr Anjana Khatwa

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Debate: Sanctions Don’t Work as a Tool of Foreign Policy

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How does a nation’s language shape its identity? Hannah Kent on her year in Iceland