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Tell Me Why, 502 episodes. Page 5 of 6.

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Susan Neiman on learning from the Germans

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Charles Moore on Margaret Thatcher

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Jonathan Haidt on political speech

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The Uninhabitable Earth, with David Wallace-Wells

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Catherine Haddon and Adam Wagner on the Supreme Court

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Susan Sontag’s life, with Lisa Appignanesi

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Robert Shiller’s narrative economics

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Jolyon Maugham QC on Brexit

409

The Syrian war through the camera

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The Brexit fiasco past and present, with Peter Foster

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Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy, with Kate Kirkpatrick

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Conservatism after Brexit, with Tim Montgomerie

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#94: Brexit—last chance to stop a no-deal? With David Anderson and Meg Russell

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The battle over bread, with Dan Hancox

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Tony Blair’s foreign policy, with Steve Bloomfield

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Confronting inequality, with David Blanchflower and Angus Deaton

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Demystifying the food industry, with Marion Nestle

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Mental health with Nathan Filer

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Behind the generation wars, with Jennie Bristow

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Understanding the ugly building, with Timothy Hyde

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Bringing the Green New Deal home, with Ed Miliband

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The art of scripture, with Karen Armstrong

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Hay Festival special, with Steven Pinker, Elif Shafak and the Roundhouse Poetry Collective

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Disability on film, with Tom Shakespeare

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Remembering the women of Westminster, with Rachel Reeves

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Forging a new political economy, with Paul Mason

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Living through digital afterlives, with Elaine Kasket

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What Labour's Tom Watson will do next, with Kevin Maguire

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The woman with a mission to help donor-conceived children find their biological fathers, with Stefanie Marsh

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The art of translation, with Miranda France

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The experiment that gave us the wrong idea about evil, with Stephen Reicher and Alex Haslam

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Saving the world with Mike Berners-Lee

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How to have better political arguments, with Adam Wagner

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Brexit and the constitutional question with Vernon Bogdanor

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Why are so many of us tracking our own lives? With Barbara Speed

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Wendell Steavenson on Britain's hidden recycling crisis

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Stephen Wall on the coming Brexit battles

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Stanley McChrystal on Donald Trump

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Clive James on the real Philip Larkin

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Martin Rees on the limits of the human mind

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George Magnus—is China heading for a fall?

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Have computers ruined chess? An interview with David Edmonds

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Britain's Churchill problem, with Piers Brendon

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Alan Rusbridger on Oxford's biggest problem

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A new voice in a troubled country, with Samira Shackle

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The problem with British capitalism, with Paul Collier

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Who is John McDonnell? With Kevin Maguire

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Is Socialism coming to America? With Clare Malone

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Who was Sergei Skripal? A conversation with Mark Urban

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Party conference special

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Is identity a mirage? With Kwame Anthony Appiah

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Political cartoons in an age beyond satire with Stephen Collins

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Refugees, rights and writers with Lyndsey Stonebridge

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When music meets philosophy with Ivan Hewett

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The untold story of the financial crisis with Adam Tooze

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Rethinking Israel-Palestine with Donald Macintyre

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Sci-fi currencies and the philosophy of money with Eric Lonergan

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What politeness masks with Freya Johnston

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Where “America First” came from with Sarah Churchwell

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A left-wing route to Remain with Zoe Williams

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Maestros in miniature with Suna Erdem

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Inside the Obama White House by Ben Rhodes

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Why everyone should learn a dying language with Cal Flyn

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Rock n’ Roll n’ Brexit with DJ Taylor

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Will Brexit sink the Tories?

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The unbridgeable divide in the Tory Party

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From Cold War to hot peace

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The end of the World Cup?

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Fifty Shades of Atheism with John Gray

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Planet China

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Why globalism has failed

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Local election special

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The parliamentary showdown on Brexit

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Will Self on drugs

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Brexit and the economy—time to change direction

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Saudi, Trump And Putin

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What is Putin's game?

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The end of death?

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The gender injustices of our time

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Why the world is getting better

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The Free Speech wars

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John Sawers on security

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Crunch time on Brexit

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Monsters of art

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Web of control

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The globalisation lie

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Brexonomics

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The state of the nation

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BONUS: How To Fix... Social Care

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The character thing with Ray Monk

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Crowns and Culture Wars

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Experts on trial

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Game, set and match to the malcontents

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Prospect Big Election Debate 2017

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The Neverending Tory

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Upending the old

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The end for Labour?

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Grave new world

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Democracy under attack

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Is The American Century over?