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    Claudia Rankine at the Free Thinking Festival

    Anne McElvoy with Claudia Rankine, Amir Darwish, Jules Holroyd and Catherine Fletcher.

  2. Embracing Failure and Uncertainty

    Tom Sutcliffe with Helga Nowotny, David Willetts, Matthew Syed and Oliver Morton.

  3. Social Class and Cultural Capital

    Andrew Marr with Siri Hustvedt, Ben Power, Peter Davies and Mike Savage.

  4. Power and Corruption with Stephen Frears and Mary Beard

    Tom Sutcliffe with Mary Beard, Stephen Frears, Timberlake Wertenbaker and Mehmet Ergen.

  5. Kissinger

    Andrew Marr with Niall Ferguson, Jane Smiley and Gabriel Gorodetsky.

  6. Jonathan Franzen

    Tom Sutcliffe with Jonathan Franzen, Gillian Tett, Tacita Dean and Helen Margetts.

  7. Celts and Romans

    Mary Ann Sieghart with Tom Holland, Barry Cunliffe, Julia Farley and Matt Ridley.

  8. Edmund de Waal on Porcelain

    Andrew Marr talks to Edmund de Waal, Tim Marlow, Annie Freud and Mark Miodownik.

  9. Harmony and Balance

    Mary Ann Sieghart with Frank Wilczek, Shobana Jeyasingh, Matt Parker and Gerald Finley.

  10. Alan Watts and the Way of Translation

    Andrew Marr with Tim Lott, Mark Vernon, Maureen Freely and Marc Rees.

  11. Architecture and power - from Stalinist structures to model villages

    Tom Sutcliffe with Doug Aitken, Owen Hatherley, Jacqueline Yallop and Graham Morrison.

  12. The Value of Art with Grayson Perry and Hannah Rothschild

    Andrew Marr with Grayson Perry, Hannah Rothschild, Xavier Bray and Patrick Mark.

  13. Illness: Psychosomatic and Physical

    Tom Sutcliffe discusses health and wellbeing with guests.

  14. Saul Bellow and Finding a Voice

    Andrew Marr with guests Zachary Leader, Speech DeBelle, Robert Icke and Linda Grant.

  15. Hay Festival

    Tom Sutcliffe with Yuval Noah Harari, Beth Shapiro, Colm Toibin and Owen Sheers.

  16. Joseph Stiglitz and Steve Hilton on Inequality

    Andrew Marr with Joseph Stiglitz, Masha Gessen and Steve Hilton.

  17. Values from Ancient Greece to Contemporary Harlem

    Mariella Frostrup talks to Hamid Dabashi, Edith Hall, Douglas Murray and Glenn Ligon.

  18. Vikram Seth

    Tom Sutcliffe with Vikram Seth, Olivia Laing, Nick Groom and Nick Davies.

  19. Violence

    Anne McElvoy with Richard Bessel, Diana Preston, Helen Benedict and June Oscar.

  20. Life Underwater

    Tom Sutcliffe with Andrew Motion, Helen Scales, Nick Lane and Luke Rendell.

  21. David Sloan Wilson on Altruism

    Tom Sutcliffe with Lydia Cacho, David Sloan Wilson, William MacAskill and Tansy Davies.

  22. The Amazons

    Tom Sutcliffe with Sarah Hall, Adrienne Mayor and John Gray.

  23. Lewis Carroll and the Story of Alice.

    Andrew Marr with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Gillian Beer, Katherine Rundell, Damien Kempf.

  24. Susan Pinker on the benefits of face-to-face contact

    Anne McElvoy with Susan Pinker, Nicholas Lovell, Sam Riviere and Daniel Dennett.

  25. Shame, with Jon Ronson

    Tom Sutcliffe with Jennifer Jacquet, Jon Ronson, Peter Stanford and Michael Buffong.

  26. The Mathematical Mind with Cedric Villani

    Tom Sutcliffe with Cedric Villani, Vicky Neale, Zia Haider Rahman and Morgan Matthews.

  27. From Fringe to Frontline?

    Tom Sutcliffe with Robert Ford, Catherine de Vries, Srdja Popovic and John Fulljames.

  28. Joseph Nye on Soft Power

    Andrew Marr talks to Peter Pomerantsev, Anne Robbins and Joseph Nye.

  29. Life in Suburbia

    Anne McElvoy with Adam Thirlwell, Nick Hubble, Richard McGuire and Hannah Starkey.

  30. The Rise of Islamic State

    Tom Sutcliffe with Patrick Cockburn, Leena Hoffmann, Katherine Brown and Gerard Russell.

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