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Maps – lost, secret and revealing
James Cheshire, Jerry Brotton and Jenny Uglow, with Tom Sutcliffe.
Endangered languages and vanishing landscapes
Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Klaus Dodds and Sverker Sörlin, with Adam Rutherford
Yanis Varoufakis on Greece’s civil war
Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis and historians Paul Cartledge and Mary Vincent.
Steven Pinker on common knowledge
Steven Pinker, Aleks Krotoski and David Edmonds, with Adam Rutherford.
Contains Strong Language Festival, Bradford
Saima Mir, Andrew McMillan and Catherine Clarke at the CSL Festival in Bradford.
Afghanistan and the DRC
Lyse Doucet, Michela Wrong and Ashleigh Percival-Borley talk to Shahidha Bari.
Arundhati Roy and maternal inheritance
Arundhati Roy, Lea Ypi and Sarah Howe talk to Tom Sutcliffe.
Sanctuary, refuge and exile
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Marina Warner, Oliver Basciano and Fergus Butler-Gallie.
The Idea of Genius
Adam Rutherford talks to Helen Lewis, Francesca Wade and Dean Van Nguyen
Hidden spaces and dangerous places
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Danny Dorling and Adele Zeynep Walton.