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Pain and Prejudice
What Is the State For?
Rod Liddle on the selfish generation
Charleston Festival
Alien Invaders
The Myth of the Strong Leader?
Simon Armitage on Greek Tragedy
The Future of Capitalism
James Lovelock
Lucy Worsley on the Georgians
Police drama with playwright Roy Williams
AL Kennedy and David Sedaris on matters of the heart
Faisal I of Iraq and the making of the modern Middle East
Decision-making with Daniel Kahneman and Michael Ignatieff
Andrew Hussey on the legacy of France's Arab Empire
The Vikings and Seafaring
Adair Turner on the Politics of Finance
Vanessa Feltz and Susie Orbach on Confession
Irving Finkel on the Ark Tablet
Spying and Surveillance: The Snowden Files
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Neuroscience and Free Will
Unity and Disunity
Michael Gove on teaching history
Clive James
Josie Rourke on strategy and Coriolanus
The Building Blocks of Life and Intelligence
Landscape and Community
Bianca Jagger on human rights
Gandhi's Early Years
Andrew Marr on poet George Herbert
Fiona Shaw; Simon McBurney; Journeys Into the Unknown
The Kremlin: A fortress that has shaped a nation
Paul Collier on Immigration Controls
Grayson Perry on contemporary art
Victorian Revivalism
Greek myth and the Indian epic Ramayana
Jamal Edwards on 'digital natives'
Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Future
Population: Ten Billion
Zadie Smith on social mobility
Hari Kunzru and Dystopia
Putin's Russia
Fairy Tale Physics?
Eric Schmidt on the New Digital Age
Antonia Fraser: Democracy and Reform
Music and the mind: Carrie Cracknell
Michael Rosen at the Brighton Festival
Gavin Turk on the Value of Art
Bernardo Bertolucci
The Origin and Future of Life
'Home' and cultural identity with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Tom Sutcliffe talks to John Gray and Mary Beard
Mohsin Hamid talks about How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Lisa Jardine talks to David Cannadine and Aleksandar Hemon
Ken Loach on post-war Britain
Feminism: Natasha Walter and Catherine Hakim
The Commonwealth - Don McKinnon and Kwasi Kwarteng
Mathematical modelling with Lisa Jardine
Al-Qaeda: Afghanistan to Mali
Political Writing: Joan Bakewell and Tim Montgomerie
History of Music - John Adams and Howard Goodall
Natural Capital: Tony Juniper
Family Secrets: Sarah Dunant and Deborah Cohen
The Human Voice: Rolando Villazon and Mark-Anthony Turnage
Science Special
Scotland - Ian Rankin and Alasdair Gray
Nuclear Iran - Shirley Williams and Geoffrey Robertson
Germany and the EU
Art and Design with Antony Gormley and Ron Arad
Award-winning film director Kevin Macdonald
Political Divide: Mary Robinson and Michael Ignatieff
Torture, terrorism and secrets
Modernism with Ali Smith and Kevin Jackson
Richard Ford on the US Elections
Diana Athill and Philip Hensher on the dying art of handwriting
Anne Applebaum on Eastern Europe
Grimm Tales with Philip Pullman
Salman Rushdie
National Identity with Maajid Nawaz and Sir Christopher Meyer.
The 'life unlived' with Adam Phillips and Helen Dunmore
Science and Politics: Professor David Nutt and David Blunkett
WWII with Antony Beevor and Max Hastings
Grayson Perry at the Charleston Festival
Thomas Heatherwick on design and architecture
Michael Sandel on Money and Morality
Spain in Crisis
The Digital Future
Creativity: Jonah Lehrer
Iain Banks and David Hare
China
Peter Carey on Start the Week
The 'death of socialism'?
Werner Herzog on Start the Week
Nobel Prize winning author, Nadine Gordimer
Writers on Families: Colm Tóibín and AS Byatt
Middle Age: David Bainbridge, Deborah Moggach, Simon Armitage and Claudia Hammond
Faith and Doubt: Richard Holloway, Karen Armstrong, Jonathan Safran Foer and Helen Edmundson
Ian Stewart, Peter Randall-Page, Mark Miodownik, Jane Rapley
Elizabethans: Max Hastings, Mary Beard, John Guy and Lola Young