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The Forum Episodes

  1. Water conservation in India

    Indian activist Sunita Narain on an inventive plan to solve the global water shortage

  2. War and Civilisation

    Big thinkers discuss their ideas on war and civilisation

  3. Voodoo science

    American physicist Robert calls us to shrug off superstition and face the facts of science

  4. Utopia: Mr More鈥檚 Wondrous Islands

    A celebration of Thomas More's Utopia and new short stories inspired by it.

  5. Universal values in our daily lives

    Professor Steven Lukes discusses moral relativism

  6. Trust: how do we accumulate it?

    Farid Zakaria explains why the US can re-invent itself as the world's honest broker

  7. The world of sound

    Argentinian classical composer Osvaldo Golijov on his category defying style

  8. The unfinished theory of evolution

    Why Darwin's theory of natural selection poses more questions than it does solutions

  9. The tyranny of choice

    Exploring how consumerism in the modern developed world may drive anxiety

  10. The tangle of patterns

    Ruth Padel, poet and descendant of Charles Darwin, on the scientists' observations

  11. The stuff of thought

    Psychologist Steven Pinker explores language as a window into human nature

  12. The space time continuum

    Astrophysicist Janna Levin on time could disappear in the future

  13. The slippery power of creativity

    Novelist Bernadine Evaristo discusses her subversive retelling of the slave trade

  14. The Singularity is near

    Ray Kurzweil explains why he believes people and technology will become one around 2045

  15. The shadow in literature

    Part 2 with guests: Argentine classical composer Osvaldo Golijov; Moscow-born novelist and broadcaster Zinovy Zinik; Professor of acoustic engineering Trevor Cox.

  16. The secrets of meteorites

    Space scientist Monica Grady on what meteorites reveal about the chance of life in space

  17. The secret lives of cells

    Biologist Lewis Wolpert on how cells know where to grow

  18. The Real Pirates of the Caribbean

    The story of the men and women who defined the 鈥楪olden Age鈥� of piracy.

  19. The Powers of the American President

    The Constitution, Congress and the US Presidency

  20. The power of things unsaid

    South African novelist Gillian Slovo examines the power of humiliation

  21. The power of the spoken word

    Scottish writer AL Kennedy on the power of words to shape and liberate us

  22. The power of the small

    British biologist Steve Jones on how small changes in life can have big consequences

  23. The power of the scientific image

    The comologist and mathematician John Barrow on why science is more visual than we think

  24. The power of the planets

    Neil de Grasse Tyson explains why planets have such a hold on the human imagination

  25. The power of political satire

    Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif turns his satrical scalpel on Pakistan's elite

  26. The power of new communication networks

    Manuel Castells on the shift of power from institutions to the world of communications

  27. The power of law in social change

    South African judge Albie Sachs believes human dignity should be the foundation of law

  28. The power of fractals

    American ethnomathematician Ron Eglash on the geometric patterns that surround us

  29. The power of cinema to transport

    Australian commentator and poet Clive James on what makes a screen icon

  30. The potency of silence

    Iranian author Azar Nafisi on about her memoir about the role of silence in her life

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