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    Revisit: My Body Clock is Broken

    Jay Griffiths, Vincent Deary, Louise Robinson and Matthew Smith discuss our mental health

  2. Revisit: Mark Haddon

    As it comes out in paperback, Mark Haddon talks to Anne McElvoy about The Porpoise.

  3. Revisit: Encylopedias and Knowledge from Diderot to Wikipedia

    Jimmy Wales talks Diderot & collecting knowledge + Tariq Godard on Mark Fisher aka k-punk

  4. Revisit: Arundhati Roy

    The Man Booker prize winning author and campaigner is in conversation with Philip Dodd.

  5. Revisit: Antarctica - testing ground for the human species

    An author, scientist, architect and explorer compare notes on this polar region.

  6. Revisit: 2019 Wolfson History Prize Discussion

    Rana Mitter with the 6 shortlisted historians and an audience at the British Academy

  7. Revisit The influence of the British black arts movement

    Sonia Boyce, Harold Offeh, Isaac Julien and Eddie Chambers talk to Anne McElvoy

  8. Revisit Spike Lee in Conversation on Free Thinking

    The film-maker talks to Matthew Sweet about BlacKkKlansman & his 2000 film Bamboozled

  9. Revisit Slavery Stories, William Melvyn Kelley & Esi Edugyan

    Laurence Scott meets the family of a rediscovered African American writer & 3 historians

  10. Revisit Shoes

    From Roman sandals to trainers and stilettos, Shahidha Bari looks at the shoe trade

  11. Revisit Rash艒mon

    David Peace, Natasha Pulley, Jasper Sharp & Yuna Tasaka on the film + the book behind it

  12. Revisit Napoleon in Fact and Fiction

    Anne McElvoy looks at Napoleon's biography, caricatures and professional impersonators.

  13. Revisit Mike Leigh in Conversation about Peterloo, politics and his Salford upbringing.

    The film-maker talks to Matthew Sweet about depicting history and politics on film.

  14. Revisit Anxiety, Teenagers, University and Leaving Home

    Psychologist Stephen Briers, student Ceyda Uzun and Durham Univeristy's Caroline Dower

  15. Revenge and reconciliation

    In the week we mark the Armistice of World War I, Anne McElvoy and guests discuss revenge

  16. Rev Dr Giles Fraser

    Rev Dr Giles Fraser, the former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, gives a talk...

  17. Rethinking Tradition

    Roger Scruton, Kevin Davey, Kirsty Gunn & Haroon Mirza on tradition & experiment

  18. Rethinking the Curriculum

    Sandeep Parmar, Jade Cuttle, Edith Hall, Seb Falk talk to Rana Mitter about what we teach

  19. Rethinking Civilisations

    David Olusoga, Kit Davies and Kenan Malik debate what civilisation means with Philip Dodd

  20. Resting And Rushing

    Should we take more breaks at during the working day? With Claudia Hammond.

  21. Repetition

    Matthew Sweet and guests discuss routine, repetition and our sense of time

  22. Renzo Piano

    The Italian architect talks to Philip Dodd about his career from the Pompidou to the Shard

  23. Remembering Auschwitz

    Rana Mitter marks the anniversary of the 1945 liberation & talks to author Anne Michaels

  24. Religious divisions, puppet shows and politics.

    The exile of English Catholics 450 years ago and suffragette Punch and Judy.

  25. Religion and Science

    Is the idea that religion and science are at odds a myth?

  26. Religion and Politics, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Fawzia Koofi

    With Anne McElvoy. We discuss the fraught relationship between religion and politics.

  27. Reinventing the 'Mistake on the Lake'.

    Philip Dodd visits the US rust belt city of Cleveland.

  28. Rehabilitating the Rev John Trusler

    Sophie Coulombeau on the life of a C18 cleric and entrepreneur & the idea of failure

  29. Refuge and National Poetry Day

    Poets Momtaza Mehri, Julianknxx and historian Jes煤s Sanjurjo join Matthew Sweet

  30. Reflecting Rural Life

    Film maker Clio Barnard and novelist Amanda Craig on rural life. Matthew Sweet presents.

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