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Christianity: Changing Fortunes
Ancient lives and legacies in Latin America
Internet influencers and generation gaps
Ai Weiwei on creative freedom
Working the land - Orwell and HG Wells
Rationality in an Irrational Age
Views from across the water
Images of power
Colm Tóibín on Thomas Mann
Climate activism: the next generation
Life in the first person
Ali Smith
Jackie Kay on Bessie Smith
London - villain and victim?
Lionel Shriver on life and death decisions
DH Lawrence: life and work
On Thin Ice: Glaciers, Geopolitics, and Nature's Goods
Daniel Kahneman on 'noisy' human judgement
The opioid crisis and erosion of trust
Art - plunder, power and prestige
Personal faith and the Church
What if the Incas had colonised Europe?
Nuclear destruction
Defining mental illness
Trade deals and human rights – in Africa and China
Newton: science and worldly riches
Rights and responsibilities
Understanding Melancholy
Monsters of the deep
Family struggles - from Greek tragedy to The Troubles
Living online and IRL
Empire and class, shaping Britain
The fall of Maxwell – the end of an era.
Mariana Mazzucato on moonshot economics
Francis Bacon revealed
Scotland and the Union
Nicholas Hytner
Thomas Becket and the rift between church and state
Inspiring awe – from the heavens to the oceans
Laughter
Human ingenuity and shared inheritance
Derrida, Woolf, and the pleasure of reading
Landscapes real and imagined
Physics in all its glory
Great women of the classics
China and the global order
Fake news and data lies: how to win an election
Care and compassion
Contested histories
Faith in the modern world
Claudia Rankine and Margaret Atwood
The Radical Agenda
Meritocracy and inequality
Nature notes, from farming to fungi
Brit Bennett on race, identity and protest
James Joyce
Our coercive politics
The Future
Classics and class
Richard Ford, writing from the edges
Art in an emergency
Globalisation
Changing behaviour, from bystander to actor
Crisis in Europe from Notre-Dame to coronavirus
Nature worship
The genetic gender gap
Rebuilding conservatism in changing times
Famous and Infamous
Cultural icons from Shakespeare to Superman
Morality, money and power
Hilary Mantel
Leila Slimani on Sexual Politics
Love of home
Dresden - 75 years on
Artistic influence: Beethoven, Rembrandt and MeToo
Grayson Perry - the early years
Puritans and God-given government
No work, rest and play
A house and a home
Westminster Abbey
Numbers, nightmares and nanotech
Living near water
India past and present
Love and unreason
Life, death and taxes
Animals and us
Nobel Prize winner Esther Duflo
The artist - warts and all
Breaking bread together
Global culture
Lenny Henry
Where is power now?
Antony Gormley: challenging conventions
Escaping the past
Epic quests and Greek myths
The power of poetry
Money - in your pocket and in the bank
Beyond the headlines
Jared Diamond on national crisis
Hay Festival