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Turkey: Past and Present
Sara Khan: The Battle within Islam
Chibundu Onuzo and Martin Sixsmith on corruption and family drama
Maps, Music and Medieval Manuscripts
Scientific Discoveries: from the mind to the cosmos
The Bolshoi and Culture Wars
Popular Protest and Patriotism
AIDS Activism and Surviving a Plague
Rewriting the Past: from Empire to ivory
Island Mentality
Virtue and Vice
Alan Bennett
Microbes, Genes and Human Endeavour
Soldiering on: the British Army, Lenin and Putin
Radical Liverpool
Political Drama: Robert Harris and Margaret Hodge
Love, Loss and Scandal
Food: From Bread Riots to Obesity
A Theory of Everything?
New Artistic Director of the ENO, Daniel Kramer
Genes: Our medical inheritance
Hay Festival: Spooks, war and genocide
Lost and Found: Ancient Egypt to Modern Art
World on the Move
Technology in Education
Cross-dressing and masculinity with Grayson Perry
Anish Kapoor on Light and Dark
Reporting War and Conflict
Loneliness and Inner Voices
Greece and the Eurozone with Yanis Varoufakis
Existentialism and Ways of Seeing
Is Faster Better?
The Easter Rising: 100 Years On
Scotland
Nature or Nurture?
Future Economies
Who Owns Culture?
Mind and Body
Language and Reinvention
Migration and Citizenship
Alaa Al Aswany on Egypt
Russia: Tsars to Putin
Shakespeare's Late Plays - recorded at the Globe's Playhouse
Space Survival and Exploration
Cultural Lifespans
Reforming Saudi Arabia
Augustine, Desire, Doing good
Jonathan Coe on Satire
France Special
Claudia Rankine at the Free Thinking Festival
Embracing Failure and Uncertainty
Social Class and Cultural Capital
Power and Corruption with Stephen Frears and Mary Beard
Kissinger
Jonathan Franzen
Celts and Romans
Edmund de Waal on Porcelain
Harmony and Balance
Alan Watts and the Way of Translation
Architecture and power - from Stalinist structures to model villages
The Value of Art with Grayson Perry and Hannah Rothschild
Illness: Psychosomatic and Physical
Saul Bellow and Finding a Voice
Hay Festival
Joseph Stiglitz and Steve Hilton on Inequality
Values from Ancient Greece to Contemporary Harlem
Vikram Seth
Violence
Life Underwater
David Sloan Wilson on Altruism
The Amazons
Lewis Carroll and the Story of Alice.
Susan Pinker on the benefits of face-to-face contact
Shame, with Jon Ronson
The Mathematical Mind with Cedric Villani
From Fringe to Frontline?
Joseph Nye on Soft Power
Life in Suburbia
The Rise of Islamic State
Organising the Mind
Surveillance and Self-censorship
The Tudors
Sense of Place
Hedonism
Reinventing Inventions
Arabian Nights
Evolution and Extinction
Science Fiction
Self-Portrayal
A Good Death
The Language of Money
Revolution
Napoleon
Crime Stories and Ghost Stories
Naomi Klein on climate change and growth
Karen Armstrong on War and Religion
Hilary Mantel
Tom Sutcliffe discusses family secrets and Scottish royalty
The Science of the Mind
Joyce DiDonato and Julie Bindel on Women Behaving Badly