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The high street
Adam Rutherford with Annie Gray, Vicky Payne and Angela Hui.
The story of British art - from cave paintings to landscapes
Tom Sutcliffe with Bendor Grosvenor, Susan Owens and Lucinda Rogers.
Security threats and future prospects for Britain and the EU
Shahidha Bari talks to Sir Alex Younger, Armida van Rij and Ross Clark.
Acoustics, music and architecture
Tom Sutcliffe with Fiona Smyth, Trevor Cox and Jess Gillam
Animals – up close and talking
Adam Rutherford with Simon Armitage, Amorina Kingdom and Christian Rutz.
Human intelligence and imagination
Tom Sutcliffe with Naomi Alderman, Michelle Aroney and Adam Zeman
Socrates, optimism and racism
Adam Rutherford with Agnes Callard, Sumit Paul-Choudhury and Keon West
Music and movement; mind and body
Tom Sutcliffe with Daniel Levitin, Nwando Ebizie and Sara Veale
Climate Crisis: truth, lies and compromise
Adam Rutherford with Mike Berners-Lee, Joe Murphy and Marianne Brown
Manufacturing and sustainability
Tom Sutcliffe with Tim Minshall, Bernie Bulkin and Fiona Dear.
Wages for Housework – then and now
Shahidha Bari with Emily Callaci, Rosie Campbell and Victoria Smith
Writing and rewriting history
Tom Sutcliffe with Tom Holland, Moudhy Al-Rashid and Gus Casely-Hayford.
Community and industrial decline
Adam Rutherford with Sam Wetherell, Yu Jie and Jack Thorne.
The Great Auk meets Victorian explorers, and zombie ponds
Tom Sutcliffe with Tim Birkhead, Kaliane Bradley and Mark Nowers.
How political ideology affects the brain
Adam Rutherford with Leor Zmigrod, Iain Dale and John Rees.
Lockdown and the Covid generation
Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the impact and legacy of Covid lockdown
Abdulrazak Gurnah on family and resistance
Abdulrazak Gurnah, Samantha Ellis and Jason Allen-Paisant with Shahidha Bari.
Delusions of grandeur and freedom of speech
Tom Sutcliffe with Grayson Perry, Lionel Shriver and Fara Dabhoiwala
Untangling fact from fiction
Adam Rutherford with Phil Tinline, Rosie Holt and Adam Kucharski.
Impunity and fighting for justice
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Philippe Sands, Kenneth Roth and Lina Sinjab
Christianity and British society
Shahidha Bari with Bishop of Newcastle Helen-Ann Hartley, Bijan Omrani and Lamorna Ash.
Advocating for nature
Tom Sutcliffe with Robert Macfarlane, Monica Feria-Tinta and Patrick Galbraith.
Smell – the underrated sense
Adam Rutherford with Jonas Olofsson, Ally Louks and Alan Chalmers.
History: private, personal and political
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Tiffany Jenkins, Geoff Dyer and Lanre Bakare.
Mathematics, Symbiosis and Japanese art
Adam Rutherford discusses art, maths and creativity with Marcus du Sautoy.
Hay Festival: exposing the secrets of rubbish
Tom Sutcliffe at Hay Festival, with Chloe Duckworth, Sarah Gabbott and Saabira Chaudhuri
The uses and abuses of the atom
Shahidha Bari talks to Frank Close, Tim Gregory and Baroness Natalie Bennett.
Hidden spaces and dangerous places
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, Danny Dorling and Adele Zeynep Walton.
The Idea of Genius
Adam Rutherford talks to Helen Lewis, Francesca Wade and Dean Van Nguyen
Sanctuary, refuge and exile
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Marina Warner, Oliver Basciano and Fergus Butler-Gallie.