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    Revolution

    Tom Sutcliffe with Russell Brand, Susan Neiman, Juliet Barker and David Babbs.

  2. Napoleon

    Tom Sutcliffe with Andrew Roberts, Jenny Uglow, Sudhir Hazareesingh and Gavin Plumley.

  3. Crime Stories and Ghost Stories

    Anne McElvoy with Val McDermid, Susan Hill, Alex Werner and David Clarke.

  4. Naomi Klein on climate change and growth

    Anne McElvoy with Naomi Klein, Tahmima Anam, Jeremy Oppenheim and Dieter Helm.

  5. Karen Armstrong on War and Religion

    Tom Sutcliffe with Karen Armstrong, Justin Marozzi and Christopher Coker.

  6. Hilary Mantel

    Tom Sutcliffe with Hilary Mantel, Neil MacGregor, Jeremy Deller and Kei Miller.

  7. Tom Sutcliffe discusses family secrets and Scottish royalty

    Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Holroyd, Rona Munro, Herman Koch and Hugo Blick.

  8. The Science of the Mind

    Andrew Marr with Mark Williams, Heidi Johansen-Berg, Charles Fernyhough and Ben Shephard.

  9. Joyce DiDonato and Julie Bindel on Women Behaving Badly

    Tom Sutcliffe talks with Julie Bindel, Helen Castor, Joyce DiDonato and Erica Whyman.

  10. Pain and Prejudice

    Tom Sutcliffe talks pain and suffering with Joanna Bourke, Norman Fowler and Jeremy Farrar

  11. What Is the State For?

    Tom Sutcliffe with Adrian Wooldridge, Tristram Hunt, Anjan Sundaram and Charu Lata Hogg.

  12. Rod Liddle on the selfish generation

    Tom Sutcliffe with Rod Liddle, Neil Jameson, Xiaolu Guo and Ramin Gray.

  13. Charleston Festival

    Tom Sutcliffe with Tim Winton, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Nicola Barker and Michael Schmidt.

  14. Alien Invaders

    Anne McElvoy and Ken Thompson, Monique Simmonds, Victoria Herridge and John Lewis-Stempel.

  15. The Myth of the Strong Leader?

    Tom Sutcliffe with Richard Hytner, Heather Rabbatts, Jonathan Powell and Archie Brown.

  16. Simon Armitage on Greek Tragedy

    Anne McElvoy with Simon Armitage, Frank McGuinness, Natalie Haynes and Kenan Malik.

  17. The Future of Capitalism

    Anne McElvoy with Jeremy Rifkin, Saskia Sassen and Kwasi Kwarteng.

  18. James Lovelock

    Anne McElvoy looks to the future with James Lovelock, Joanna Haigh and George Monbiot.

  19. Lucy Worsley on the Georgians

    Tom Sutcliffe with Lucy Worsley, Paula Byrne, Chris Bryant and Rupert Goold.

  20. Police drama with playwright Roy Williams

    Tom Sutcliffe with Roy Williams, Sam Bain, Christian Plowman and Jennifer Brown.

  21. AL Kennedy and David Sedaris on matters of the heart

    Tom Sutcliffe with AL Kennedy, Lavinia Greenlaw, David Sedaris and Simon Blackburn.

  22. Faisal I of Iraq and the making of the modern Middle East

    Anne McElvoy with Richard Evans, Malu Halasa, Scott Anderson and Ali Allawi.

  23. Decision-making with Daniel Kahneman and Michael Ignatieff

    Tom Sutcliffe with Daniel Kahneman, Michael Ignatieff, Henry Marsh and Lisa Appignanesi.

  24. Andrew Hussey on the legacy of France's Arab Empire

    Tom Sutcliffe with Gabrielle Rifkind, Andrew Hussey and Ziauddin Sardar.

  25. The Vikings and Seafaring

    Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Wood, Rose George, David Barrie and Yrsa Sigurdardottir.

  26. Adair Turner on the Politics of Finance

    Tom Sutcliffe with Adair Turner, Charles Calomiris, Harris Irfan and Maggie Gee.

  27. Vanessa Feltz and Susie Orbach on Confession

    Andrew Marr with John Cornwell, Vanessa Feltz, Susie Orbach and Turney Duff.

  28. Irving Finkel on the Ark Tablet

    Tom Sutcliffe with Harry Collins, Irving Finkel, Hattie Naylor and Colin Blakemore.

  29. Spying and Surveillance: The Snowden Files

    Anne McElvoy with Luke Harding, Sir David Omand, Annette Dittert and Alain de Botton.

  30. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

    Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Trevor Cox, Waldemar Januszczak and Victoria Williamson.

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