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Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday

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  • Christianity and British society
    Apr 21, 2025 – 42:02
  • Impunity and fighting for justice
    Apr 14, 2025 – 41:46
  • Untangling fact from fiction
    Apr 7, 2025 – 41:37
  • Delusions of grandeur and freedom of speech
    Mar 31, 2025 – 41:59
  • Abdulrazak Gurnah on family and resistance
    Mar 24, 2025 – 41:42
  • Lockdown and the Covid generation
    Mar 17, 2025 – 42:16
  • How political ideology affects the brain
    Mar 10, 2025 – 41:45
  • The Great Auk meets Victorian explorers, and zombie ponds
    Mar 3, 2025 – 41:52
  • Community and industrial decline
    Feb 24, 2025 – 41:58
  • Writing and rewriting history
    Feb 17, 2025 – 42:06
  • Wages for Housework – then and now
    Feb 10, 2025 – 41:37
  • Manufacturing and sustainability
    Feb 3, 2025 – 41:51
  • Climate Crisis: truth, lies and compromise
    Jan 27, 2025 – 41:39
  • Music and movement; mind and body
    Jan 20, 2025 – 42:08
  • Socrates, optimism and racism
    Jan 13, 2025 – 41:49
  • Human intelligence and imagination
    Dec 30, 2024 – 42:01
  • Animals – up close and talking
    Dec 23, 2024 – 41:59
  • Acoustics, music and architecture
    Dec 16, 2024 – 41:26
  • Security threats and future prospects for Britain and the EU
    Dec 9, 2024 – 41:46
  • The story of British art - from cave paintings to landscapes
    Dec 2, 2024 – 41:48
  • The high street
    Nov 25, 2024 – 41:47
  • Rise and fall of the political fixer
    Nov 18, 2024 – 42:01
  • Sex and Christianity
    Nov 11, 2024 – 42:11
  • Ancient crafts: feathers, leather and thatch
    Nov 4, 2024 – 41:37
  • Female ambition and control
    Oct 28, 2024 – 41:44
  • A duty of care
    Oct 21, 2024 – 41:43
  • From Sapiens to AI
    Oct 14, 2024 – 42:10
  • Oceans and the game of evolution
    Oct 7, 2024 – 42:17
  • Ancient India and China: from golden to silk roads
    Sep 30, 2024 – 42:10
  • Chance and fortune
    Sep 23, 2024 – 41:40
  • On Freedom
    Sep 16, 2024 – 41:48
  • Weaving magic in words, clay and paper
    Jul 1, 2024 – 41:47
  • Animal communication
    Jun 24, 2024 – 42:19
  • Politeness and civility
    Jun 17, 2024 – 42:10
  • ‘Left behind’, but not forgotten
    Jun 10, 2024 – 41:42
  • Hay Festival: ancient wisdom and ecology
    Jun 3, 2024 – 42:16
  • Reading the Bible
    May 27, 2024 – 41:29
  • Art: market, money and malfeasance
    May 20, 2024 – 42:00
  • Bees – culture and survival
    May 13, 2024 – 41:51
  • Protest and patriotism
    May 6, 2024 – 41:55
  • Alien life and gravity
    Apr 29, 2024 – 41:45
  • City living
    Apr 22, 2024 – 41:41
  • Power to the people
    Apr 15, 2024 – 41:47
  • Music and poetry
    Apr 8, 2024 – 41:55
  • The war between science and religion
    Apr 1, 2024 – 42:22
  • Crossing borders and belonging
    Mar 25, 2024 – 41:34
  • Intrigue and disinformation from the Russian Revolution to Ukraine invasion
    Mar 18, 2024 – 41:50
  • Time passing: ageing, memory and nostalgia
    Mar 11, 2024 – 41:39
  • Mysterious Plants
    Mar 4, 2024 – 41:39
  • Weighty issues
    Feb 26, 2024 – 41:39
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