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Hay Festival: David Brooks, Azar Nafisi, Tom Holland
Rana Mitter and guests Azar Nafisi, David Brooks and Tom Holland discuss humility.
Theodore Zeldin, Mona Eltahawy
Philip Dodd is joined by scholar Theodore Zeldin and journalist Mona Eltahawy.
Fulfilment, Beowulf, The Beaux' Stratagem
Including a debate about fulfilment, actor Julian Glover and the play The Beaux' Stratagem
Alain Mabanckou, Joseph Stiglitz
With novelist Alain Mabanckou on growing up in the Republic of Congo. Plus Joseph Stiglitz
Colm Toibin on Elizabeth Bishop, Mammoth Cloning, Fareed Zakaria
Colm Toibin on the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Beth Shapiro on cloning mammoths.
High Society, Xinran and China's One-Child Policy, Decisive UK Elections
Anne McElvoy presents a review of High Society at the Old Vic. Plus Chinese writer Xinran.
Landmark: Dante's The Divine Comedy
Prue Shaw, Sean O'Brien, Nick Havely and Kevin Jackson discuss Dante's The Divine Comedy.
Agnes Varda, Gut Instinct, Scientific Research into the Gut
Matthew Sweet on the idea of 'gut instinct'. Plus the ballet Woolf Works and Agnes Varda.
Anne Enright, The Economics of Psychological Therapy, Christopher Hampton
Anne McElvoy is joined by novelist Anne Enright and playwright Christopher Hampton.
Antony Sher
Philip Dodd is in extended conversation with actor Antony Sher.
