The Forum Episodes Episode guide
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Storytelling and tolerance
Indian novelist M G Vassanji on the power of stories to combat fear and foster tolerance
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Silver age of Russian poetry
Author and poet Elaine Feinstein on the Russian literary figures who have inspired her
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Self and the Global
Exploring ideas around place and identity
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Science and faith
Ghanaian poet and writer Nii Parkes discusses the themes of his book Tail of the Blue Bird
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Rules of the game and change
American historian Robert Kagan on the dual between revolutionary liberalism and autocracy
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Rule breaking
Anthropologist Alison Richard on studying rule-breaking among lemurs in Madgascar
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Revolutions in sex and science
Carl Djerassi believes women will eventually choose to get pregnant using IVF
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Remodeling ourselves
Psychotherapist Susie Orbach explores what reengineering our bodies can do to our psyche
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Remodeling our history
Margaret Macmillan on the global thirst for historical answers and justifications
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Reforming the workplace
Historian and philosopher Theodore Zeldin on revolutionising the idea of a job
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Recognition, reputation and authenticity
Australian commentator and poet Clive James explores recognition and reputation
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Political hypocrisy
Professor David Runciman defends hypocrisy as a key part of democracy
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Personal identity in a post ideological world
Uzbek novelist and broadcaster Hamid Ismailov talks about identity in a post Soviet world
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Personal and social taboos
Literary scholar George Steiner on the taboos he explores in his work, My Unwritten Books
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Pandemics in a globalised world
Stefan Kaufmann, book on pandemics, TB vaccine. American classicist James O芒鈧劉Donnell maintains that the so-called 芒鈧渂arbarian芒鈧劉 successors to the Roman Empire actually left us with a very civilized legacy. Presenter: Bridget Kendall
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Obsession as an illness
US Professor Lennard Davis offers a cross-disciplinary approach to obsession
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Nazi ideology and its chaotic reality
This week our guest presenter is philosopher and classicist Angie Hobbs. Guests are British historian Mark Mazower; Geologist Jan Zalasiewicz; and Uzbek novelist and broadcaster Hamid Ismailov.
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Music Influence, Part Two
Philosopher, poet and doctor Professor Raymond Tallis explains why the brain is overrated
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Music Influence, Part One
Ghanaian economist George Ayittey, examines why Africa is in a perpetual state of poverty
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Music and human society
Conductor Semyon Bychkov compares musical notes with the workings of human society
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Mr More's Wondrous Islands Billboard
Prominent international thinkers debating big ideas.
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Mr More's Wondrous Islands Billboard
Prominent international thinkers debating big ideas.
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Mr More's Wondrous Islands Billboard
Prominent international thinkers debating big ideas.
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Mr More's Wondrous Islands Billboard
Prominent international thinkers debating big ideas.
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Mr More's Wondrous Islands Billboard
Prominent international thinkers debating big ideas.
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Microfinance to lift people out of poverty
Bangladeshi entrepreneur Iqbal Quadir also argues microfinance helps strengthen democracy
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Maths and music
British mathematician and trumpeter Marcus du Sautoy talks about finding music in maths
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Mathematics in Literature
A look at how writer, Jorge Luis Borges, raised questions of infinity
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Living in a landscape
Martha Schwartz explains why there is much more to landscape design than plants and trees
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Layers, Part Two
Sri Lankan born Australian author Michelle de Kretser explores the idea of being uprooted
