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    China – its poetry and economy

    Tom Sutcliffe with Noo Saro-Wiwa, Michael Wood and George Magnus

  2. Soundtrack to life

    Kirsty Wark with Natalie Merchant, Michel Faber and Jeffrey Boakye

  3. Infected blood - from scandal to inquiry

    Tom Sutcliffe with Cara McGoogan, Jason Evans and Gabriel Scally.

  4. Unruly bodies

    Adam Rutherford with Emma Dabiri, Carol Morley and Cat Bohannon.

  5. Israel

    Tom Sutcliffe with Nathan Thrall, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen and Jake Wallis Simons.

  6. The Iliad and the right to rule

    Adam Rutherford with Emily Wilson, Mary Beard and Ben Riley-Smith

  7. Contains Strong Language Festival in Leeds

    Tom Sutcliffe with Lemn Sissay, Lebogang Mashile and Clare O’Dowd

  8. Homo Sapiens +/-

    Tom Sutcliffe with Sebastian Faulks, Ludovic Slimak and Lauren Gunderson.

  9. The NHS at 75

    Kirsty Wark with Kevin Fong, Isabel Hardman, Phil Whitaker and Andrew Seaton

  10. Materials that shape our world

    Tom Sutcliffe with Ed Conway, Aarathi Prasad and Jamie Fraser.

  11. Sums, stories and musical scores

    Kirsty Wark with Eugenia Cheng, Sarah Hart and Emily Howard.

  12. Hacking and cybercrime

    Tom Sutcliffe with Scott Shapiro, Alice Hutchings and Jenny Radcliffe.

  13. Allergies and the Microbiome

    Adam Rutherford with Theresa MacPhail, James Kinross and Johnny Drain.

  14. Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century

    Tom Sutcliffe talks to Barbara Kingsolver, Michael Rosen and Natalie Haynes.

  15. Birds and moths

    Kirsty Wark with Tim Blackburn, Cheryl Tipp and Mark Cocker

  16. Virtuous bankers?

    Adam Rutherford with Anne Murphy, Edward Chancellor and David Fishwick.

  17. Monster artist/monstrous art?

    Tom Sutcliffe with Claire Dederer, Devika Ponnambalam and Michael Bond.

  18. Life behind the iron curtain

    Adam Rutherford with Karl Schlögel, Katja Hoyer and Adam Curtis

  19. Ancient trees

    Kirsty Wark with Peter Wohlleben, Jill Butler and Carolyne Larrington.

  20. A place called home

    Tom Sutcliffe with Kieran Yates, Natasha Carthew, Christine Whitehead and Alice Brownfield

  21. Ai Weiwei and design values

    Adam Rutherford with Ai Weiwei, Roma Agrawal and Bent Flyvbjerg

  22. Mastering a new skill

    Tom Sutcliffe with Adam Gopnik, Hannah Critchlow and Rebecca Struthers.

  23. Climate - past, present and future

    Kirsty Wark with Peter Frankopan, Jane Francis and Jessie Greengrass.

  24. Humanism - what is it good for?

    Adam Rutherford with Sarah Bakewell, Julian Baggini and Leila Aboulela

  25. George Eliot and married life

    Tom Sutcliffe with Clare Carlisle, Claudia Rankine and David Eldridge

  26. The Iraq War – 20 years on

    Kirsty Wark with Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Emma Sky and Gordon Corera.

  27. Democratic capitalism – marriage on the rocks

    Tom Sutcliffe with Bernie Sanders, Martin Wolf and Kate Raworth.

  28. Ancient knowledge

    Adam Rutherford with Carlo Rovelli, Ann Yee and Kapka Kassabova.

  29. The food we eat

    Kimberley Wilson, Louise Gray and Rebecca O'Connell with Tom Sutcliffe

  30. Power, violence and witches

    Kirsty Wark with Zinnie Harris, Marion Gibson and Jo Ingabire Moys.

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