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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.

The uses and abuses of the atom
Shahidha Bari talks to Frank Close, Tim Gregory and Baroness Natalie Bennett.

Hay Festival: exposing the secrets of rubbish
Tom Sutcliffe at Hay Festival, with Chloe Duckworth, Sarah Gabbott and Saabira Chaudhuri

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

History: private, personal and political
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Tiffany Jenkins, Geoff Dyer and Lanre Bakare.

Smell – the underrated sense
Adam Rutherford with Jonas Olofsson, Ally Louks and Alan Chalmers.