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    Billy Bragg on anger and hope

    Tom Sutcliffe with Kerry Hudson, Billy Bragg, Howard Brenton and Will Tanner.

  2. Icons of English literature

    Andrew Marr with Marion Turner, Emma Smith and Juliet John.

  3. Freedom: From Kierkegaard to Black Lives Matter

    Amol Rajan with DeRay Mckesson, Clare Carlisle, Inua Ellams and Elizabeth Day

  4. Life in the wilderness

    Kirsty Wark with Dan Richards, Rebecca Frecknall, Sarah O'Connor and Heida.

  5. Ian McEwan

    Andrew Marr with Booker prize-winning novelist Ian McEwan.

  6. Ageing visibly

    Andrew Marr with Nicci Gerrard, Sue Armstrong, John Agard and David Slater.

  7. Free Thinking Festival

    Tom Sutcliffe with Harriet Shawcross, William J Burns, Kathryn Tickell and Thomas Dixon

  8. Art for all

    Tom Sutcliffe with Karl Ove Knausgaard, Fiona MacCarthy, Tamsin Wimhurst and Alison Brown.

  9. Understanding China

    Andrew Marr with Xinran, Julia Lovell, David KS Tse and Roel Sterckx.

  10. The battle against so-called Islamic State

    Kirsty Wark with David Nott, Azad Cudi, Joana Cook and Claire Foster-Gilbert

  11. Language and Culture

    Andrew Marr with Jhumpa Lahiri, April De Angelis, Katrin Kohl and Marcus du Sautoy

  12. Populations and contested lands

    Amol Rajan with Paul Morland, Julia Blackburn and Diarmaid Ferriter.

  13. The Eye of the Beholder

    Andrew Marr with Jill Burke, Elizabeth Goldring, Tom Stuart and Martin Sherman.

  14. The mind unravelling

    Kirsty Wark with Randolph Nesse, AK Benjamin and George Szirtes.

  15. Who is watching you?

    Shoshana Zuboff, John Thornhill and Ece Temelkuran with Andrew Marr.

  16. The health of science

    Tom Sutcliffe with Sir Robert Lechler, Jo Dunkley, Bernie Bulkin and Elizabeth Pisani.

  17. Art, truth and power

    Andrew Marr with Fiona Benson, Louise Pullen, Stephen Bayley and Liam Bright.

  18. Violence and Conflict

    John Lanchester, Patricia Lewis, Richard Wrangham and Eleanor Robson with Amol Rajan

  19. Searching for happiness

    Andrew Marr with Paul Dolan, Linda Geddes, Laura Freeman and Edward Bullmore.

  20. Ice and Snow

    Andrew Marr with Michelle Paver, Ben Saunders, Mark Miodownik and Nancy Campbell.

  21. National myths with Neil MacGregor

    Neil MacGregor, Christopher Harding and Kajsa Norman with Kirsty Wark.

  22. Trees: a wood wide web

    Andrew Marr with Peter Wohlleben, Kathleen Jamie, Ruth Pavey and Gary Fuller.

  23. Power in Politics

    Tom Sutcliffe with Isabel Hardman, James Graham, Diarmaid MacCulloch and Steven Fielding.

  24. How the World Thinks

    Julian Baggini, Ann Wroe, Amit Chaudhuri and Paulette Randall with Andrew Marr

  25. Safe spaces and snowflakes

    Jonathan Haidt, Olivia Sudjic, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Mark Ravenhill with Amol Rajan

  26. Poland: A hundred years of history

    Amol Rajan with Witold Szablowski, Roxanna Panufnik, Michal Murawski and Adam Zamoyski.

  27. Reporting from the Front Line

    Andrew Marr with Lindsey Hilsum, Eve Pollard, Anabel Hernandez and Gillian Clarke

  28. That's not fair

    Helena Kennedy, Paul Collier, David Willetts and Tiffany Watt Smith with Andrew Marr.

  29. Pirates

    Kirsty Wark with Michael Scott Moore, Anna Beer, Veerle Nouwens and Will Newton.

  30. Identity Politics

    Francis Fukuyama, Josie Rourke, Roseanne Chantiluke and Eric Kaufmann with Andrew Marr.

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