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  1. Genes and hands: mapping character and health

    Adam Rutherford with Matthew Cobb and Alison Bashford.

  2. Digital Futures and Information Crises

    Tom Sutcliffe with Cory Doctorow, Naomi Alderman and Oliver Moody.

  3. Saving Tigers, Green Crime and Cli-fi

    Jonathan Slaght, Juhea Kim and Julia Shaw in conversation with Adam Rutherford.

  4. Storytelling: Jeanette Winterson, Rory Stewart and Soweto Kinch

    Jeanette Winterson, Soweto Kinch and Rory Stewart, with Tom Sutcliffe.

  5. Crossing genres with Wayne McGregor

    Wayne McGregor, Anne Enright and Tanika Gupta talk to Shahidha Bari.

  6. Maps 鈥� lost, secret and revealing

    James Cheshire, Jerry Brotton and Jenny Uglow, with Tom Sutcliffe.

  7. Endangered languages and vanishing landscapes

    Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Klaus Dodds and Sverker S枚rlin, with Adam Rutherford

  8. Yanis Varoufakis on Greece鈥檚 civil war

    Greek economist Yanis Varoufakis and historians Paul Cartledge and Mary Vincent.

  9. Steven Pinker on common knowledge

    Steven Pinker, Aleks Krotoski and David Edmonds, with Adam Rutherford.

  10. Contains Strong Language Festival, Bradford

    Saima Mir, Andrew McMillan and Catherine Clarke at the CSL Festival in Bradford.

  11. Afghanistan and the DRC

    Lyse Doucet, Michela Wrong and Ashleigh Percival-Borley talk to Shahidha Bari.

  12. Arundhati Roy and maternal inheritance

    Arundhati Roy, Lea Ypi and Sarah Howe talk to Tom Sutcliffe.

  13. Sanctuary, refuge and exile

    Tom Sutcliffe talks to Marina Warner, Oliver Basciano and Fergus Butler-Gallie.

  14. The Idea of Genius

    Adam Rutherford talks to Helen Lewis, Francesca Wade and Dean Van Nguyen

  15. Hidden spaces and dangerous places

    Tom Sutcliffe talks to Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Danny Dorling and Adele Zeynep Walton.

  16. The uses and abuses of the atom

    Shahidha Bari talks to Frank Close, Tim Gregory and Baroness Natalie Bennett.

  17. Hay Festival: exposing the secrets of rubbish

    Tom Sutcliffe at Hay Festival, with Chloe Duckworth, Sarah Gabbott and Saabira Chaudhuri

  18. Mathematics, Symbiosis and Japanese art

    Adam Rutherford discusses art, maths and creativity with Marcus du Sautoy.

  19. History: private, personal and political

    Tom Sutcliffe talks to Tiffany Jenkins, Geoff Dyer and Lanre Bakare.

  20. Smell 鈥� the underrated sense

    Adam Rutherford with Jonas Olofsson, Ally Louks and Alan Chalmers.

  21. Advocating for nature

    Tom Sutcliffe with Robert Macfarlane, Monica Feria-Tinta and Patrick Galbraith.

  22. Christianity and British society

    Shahidha Bari with Bishop of Newcastle Helen-Ann Hartley, Bijan Omrani and Lamorna Ash.

  23. Impunity and fighting for justice

    Tom Sutcliffe talks to Philippe Sands, Kenneth Roth and Lina Sinjab

  24. Untangling fact from fiction

    Adam Rutherford with Phil Tinline, Rosie Holt and Adam Kucharski.

  25. Delusions of grandeur and freedom of speech

    Tom Sutcliffe with Grayson Perry, Lionel Shriver and Fara Dabhoiwala

  26. Abdulrazak Gurnah on family and resistance

    Abdulrazak Gurnah, Samantha Ellis and Jason Allen-Paisant with Shahidha Bari.

  27. Lockdown and the Covid generation

    Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the impact and legacy of Covid lockdown

  28. How political ideology affects the brain

    Adam Rutherford with Leor Zmigrod, Iain Dale and John Rees.

  29. The Great Auk meets Victorian explorers, and zombie ponds

    Tom Sutcliffe with Tim Birkhead, Kaliane Bradley and Mark Nowers.

  30. Community and industrial decline

    Adam Rutherford with Sam Wetherell, Yu Jie and Jack Thorne.

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