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    Materials that shape our world

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

  2. Sums, stories and musical scores

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

  3. Hacking and cybercrime

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

  4. Allergies and the Microbiome

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

  5. Hay Festival - Dickens in the 21st century

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

  6. Birds and moths

    Kirsty Wark with Tim Blackburn, Cheryl Tipp and Mark Cocker

  7. Virtuous bankers?

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

  8. Monster artist/monstrous art?

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

  9. Life behind the iron curtain

    Adam Rutherford with Karl Schl枚gel, Katja Hoyer and Adam Curtis

  10. Ancient trees

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

  11. A place called home

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

  12. Ai Weiwei and design values

    Adam Rutherford with Ai Weiwei, Roma Agrawal and Bent Flyvbjerg

  13. Mastering a new skill

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

  14. Climate - past, present and future

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

  15. Humanism - what is it good for?

    Adam Rutherford with Sarah Bakewell, Julian Baggini and Leila Aboulela

  16. George Eliot and married life

    Tom Sutcliffe with Clare Carlisle, Claudia Rankine and David Eldridge

  17. The Iraq War 鈥� 20 years on

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

  18. Democratic capitalism 鈥� marriage on the rocks

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

  19. Ancient knowledge

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

  20. The food we eat

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

  21. Power, violence and witches

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

  22. The Victims of War

    Tom Sutcliffe with Dan Stone, Catherine Merridale and Bernard Wasserstein.

  23. Videogames 鈥� from fantasy to reality

    Adam Rutherford with Sandra Youkhana, Adrian Hon and Louise Blain

  24. The view from Latin America

    Kirsty Wark with Caroline Dodds Pennock, Adrian Locke and Ioki帽e Rodr铆guez Fernandez.

  25. Where are you from?

    Tom Sutcliffe with Kenan Malik, Francesca Sobande and Don Paterson.

  26. Awesome

    Tom Sutcliffe with Dacher Keltner, Anna Lapwood and Felix Flicker

  27. Dance Pioneers

    Kirsty Wark with Wayne McGregor, Cassa Pancho and Jennifer Homans.

  28. Listening in the dark

    Adam Rutherford with Johan Ekl枚f, Kate Summerscale, Simon McBurney and Geraint Rees

  29. Returning to the moon

    Tom Sutcliffe with Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Oliver Morton and Luke Jerram.

  30. Faith: lost in translation?

    Adam Rutherford with Kaveh Akbar, John Barton and Emma Donoghue

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