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Hay Festival: Inheritance - Steve Jones, Lionel Shriver, Marlon James
Lionel Shriver, Marlon James and Steve Jones join Rana Mitter to debate inheritance.
Hay Festival: New Generation Thinkers 2016
Rana Mitter introduces the ten academics named as the New Generation Thinkers for 2016.
The Tale of Genji, Algorithms
Rana Mitter discusses The Tale of Genji, sometimes called the world's first novel.
Latin America: Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Claudia Pineiro, Eric Hobsbawm
Philip Dodd explores Latin America with writers Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Claudia Pineiro.
Photographers Dorothy Bohm, Wolfgang Suschitzky and Neil Libbert, Carry On Films
With the Carry On film as social history and a photography show charting the 20th century.
Beauty: Dame Fiona Reynolds, The Bowes Museum, David Willetts on the State
Dame Fiona Reynolds talks to Anne McElvoy about preserving beauty in the countryside.
Landmark: In Parenthesis, by David Jones
Iain Sinclair, Emma Jenkins, Paul Hills and Iain Bell discuss the writing of David Jones.
Transformations: Becoming a Goat, Neil Bartlett
Neil Bartlett on Victorian performer Ernest Boulton and Thomas Thwaites on becoming a goat
Germany: Neil MacGregor, Volker Kutscher, Threepenny Opera
Anne McElvoy explores Germany with Neil MacGregor, Volker Kutscher and Haydn Gwynne.
The Cultural Revolution
Frank Dikotter, Xiaolu Guo and Xinran discuss the Cultural Revolution with Rana Mitter.
