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Alan Bennett to the reluctant rescue
The writer and Nicholas Hytner discuss new film The Lady in the Van
- Alan Bennett to the reluctant rescue
- Tom Holland on why Lord of the Rings is the greatest historical novel
- Tom Holland: The challenge of writing about periods before the modern novel
- Bettany Hughes reads from The King Must Die
- Alan Bennett: The poor don't get much of a look in
- William Banks-Blaney on Elizabeth Taylor at Studio 54
- Andrew O'Hagan on drawing inspiration from life for The Illuminations
- Dan and Peter Snow: Introduction to Waterloo
- Simon Schama on Germany's historical relationship with the Jews
- Rose Tremain on The American Lover
- Pippa Harris: Some of our younger crew hadn't realised it was illegal to be gay
- Jon Ronson on 'mutual grooming'
- Women's liberation: William Banks-Blaney on how Coco Chanel used men's underwear
- Marcus Brigstocke's poem on climate change
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- Celia Imrie and Terry Waite
- Cressida Cowell
- Dan & Peter Snow
- David Mitchell
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- Germaine Greer: Liberation
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- Helen Macdonald
- Ian Bostridge
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- James Rhodes
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- Karen Armstrong
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Marcus Brigstocke, Steve Punt and guests
- Mary Portas
- Meera Syal
- Michael Morpurgo, Alison Reid, Daniel Pioro and The Storyteller’s Ensemble
- Neil Gaiman
- Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell
- Nigel Kennedy
- QI’s Greatest Hits
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- Simon Schama
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- Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and guests
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- Tom Holland: De-radicalising Muhammad
- Vikram Seth
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- Yuval Noah Harari