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    Lucy Worsley on the Georgians

    Tom Sutcliffe with Lucy Worsley, Paula Byrne, Chris Bryant and Rupert Goold.

  2. Police drama with playwright Roy Williams

    Tom Sutcliffe with Roy Williams, Sam Bain, Christian Plowman and Jennifer Brown.

  3. AL Kennedy and David Sedaris on matters of the heart

    Tom Sutcliffe with AL Kennedy, Lavinia Greenlaw, David Sedaris and Simon Blackburn.

  4. Faisal I of Iraq and the making of the modern Middle East

    Anne McElvoy with Richard Evans, Malu Halasa, Scott Anderson and Ali Allawi.

  5. Decision-making with Daniel Kahneman and Michael Ignatieff

    Tom Sutcliffe with Daniel Kahneman, Michael Ignatieff, Henry Marsh and Lisa Appignanesi.

  6. Andrew Hussey on the legacy of France's Arab Empire

    Tom Sutcliffe with Gabrielle Rifkind, Andrew Hussey and Ziauddin Sardar.

  7. The Vikings and Seafaring

    Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Wood, Rose George, David Barrie and Yrsa Sigurdardottir.

  8. Adair Turner on the Politics of Finance

    Tom Sutcliffe with Adair Turner, Charles Calomiris, Harris Irfan and Maggie Gee.

  9. Vanessa Feltz and Susie Orbach on Confession

    Andrew Marr with John Cornwell, Vanessa Feltz, Susie Orbach and Turney Duff.

  10. Irving Finkel on the Ark Tablet

    Tom Sutcliffe with Harry Collins, Irving Finkel, Hattie Naylor and Colin Blakemore.

  11. Spying and Surveillance: The Snowden Files

    Anne McElvoy with Luke Harding, Sir David Omand, Annette Dittert and Alain de Botton.

  12. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

    Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Trevor Cox, Waldemar Januszczak and Victoria Williamson.

  13. Neuroscience and Free Will

    Tom Sutcliffe with Helen Dunmore, Dick Swaab, Natalie Abrahami and Julian Baggini.

  14. Unity and Disunity

    Anne McElvoy talks to Linda Colley, David Pilling, Maria Delgado and David Charter.

  15. Michael Gove on teaching history

    Andrew Marr discusses the teaching of history with the Education Minister Michael Gove.

  16. Clive James

    Andrew Marr talks to writer and former television presenter Clive James.

  17. Josie Rourke on strategy and Coriolanus

    Tom Sutcliffe with Josie Rourke, Dominic Lawson, David Runciman and Lawrence Freedman.

  18. The Building Blocks of Life and Intelligence

    Anne McElvoy talks to Alison Woollard, Kathryn Asbury, Roger Kneebone and Sir Mark Elder.

  19. Landscape and Community

    Bridget Kendall meets Patrick Keiller, Robin Robertson, Victoria Henshaw and Giles Fraser.

  20. Bianca Jagger on human rights

    Tom Sutcliffe talks to Bianca Jagger, Fatima Bhutto, Stephen Hopgood and Howard Brenton.

  21. Gandhi's Early Years

    Bridget Kendall with Ramachandra Guha, David Reynolds, Bronwen Maddox and Phelim McDermott

  22. Andrew Marr on poet George Herbert

    Andrew Marr with John Drury, John Tavener and Jeanette Winterson.

  23. Fiona Shaw; Simon McBurney; Journeys Into the Unknown

    Stephanie Flanders talks to Jeremy Webb, Carolin Crawford, Fiona Shaw and Simon McBurney.

  24. The Kremlin: A fortress that has shaped a nation

    Anne McElvoy with Catherine Merridale, Simon Thurley, Michael Chaplin and Amit Chaudhuri.

  25. Paul Collier on Immigration Controls

    Stephanie Flanders talks to Paul Collier, Kwasi Kwarteng, Nick Young and Lindsey Hilsum.

  26. Grayson Perry on contemporary art

    Tom Sutcliffe talks to Grayson Perry, Penelope Curtis, Philip Davis and Nicholas Lovell.

  27. Victorian Revivalism

    Anne McElvoy talks to Simon Heffer, Sonia Solicari, DJ Taylor and Prof Anthony King.

  28. Greek myth and the Indian epic Ramayana

    Stephanie Flanders with Anne Carson, Daljit Nagra, Richard Eyre and Graham Robb.

  29. Jamal Edwards on 'digital natives'

    Stephanie Flanders talks to Beeban Kidron, Jamal Edwards, Farida Vis and Adrian Hon.

  30. Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Future

    Tom Sutcliffe talks to Margaret Atwood, Vicky Featherstone and AC Grayling.

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