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The Forum Episodes

  1. Layers, Part One

    Geophysicist Amos Nur, discusses his book Apocalypse

  2. Language and meaning

    Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri on whether words help or hinder comprehension

  3. Investigating Crime, Part Two

    Crime writer Diane Wei Lang describes a layered and complex China

  4. Investigating Crime, Part One

    Professor Joseph Nye, of Harvard University analyses world politics

  5. International response to HIV/AIDS

    Ray Kurzweil explains why he believes people and technology will become one around 2045, Elizabeth Pisani and the international HIV/AIDS industry, Mahatma Ghandi as a prophet for the 21st century.

  6. International relations today

    Political scientist Ned Lebow reveals why self esteem underpins international relations

  7. Interdependency in a globalised world

    British elder statesman Paddy Ashdown and a new recipe for international collaboration

  8. Ibn Sina: The Persian polymath

    Best known for his Canon of Medicine, Avicenna helped shape modern science

  9. How we form judgements

    Harvard Professor of Sociology William Julius Wilson looks at why many poor African Americans still seem to be trapped in inner city ghettoes. British philosopher Roger Scruton asks - what is beauty? He believes our conclusions are rooted in rationality.

  10. Gaia theory and global warming

    James Lovelock on how he came up with his Gaia hypothesis and global warming

  11. Free will and consciousness

    Psychologist Susan Blackmore argues there is no such thing as free will

  12. Forum, The

    Discover world history, culture and ideas with today鈥檚 leading experts

  13. Expression and meaning in the world

    Choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh on how to use the human body to communicate

  14. Exploration and the idea of distance

    British geographer Doreen Massey challenges the notion that we've "conquered distance"

  15. Ethics in business

    Exploring how human nature may promote corruption

  16. Ethics and Islamic law

    Professor Mona Siddiqi explores the often misunderstood core of Sharia

  17. Detroit: Migration Motors & Music

    The changing fortunes of the American city of Detroit

  18. Defining the West

    Kwame Anthony Appiah argues we're doomed to fail if we attempt to define the West

  19. Deeper Truth

    An exploration of values, the cohesions and clashes of Eastern and Western ideology

  20. Dark matter

    Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell explores the mysterious dark matter

  21. Culture or language: which comes first?

    Opera director and trained doctor Jonathan Miller on the importance of skilled observation

  22. Culinary Delights, Part Two

    French author Agnes Desarthe explores themes of love through food

  23. Culinary Delights, Part One

    Herbal Transit a documentary by Maliha Zulfacar, examining daily life in Kabul

  24. Cruelty and kindness

    Philosopher Peter Singer argues that hunger could be eliminanated by not eating meat

  25. Crossing boundaries

    Child psychotherapist Adam Phillips says kindness has become our forbidden pleasure

  26. Crossing borders

    Professor Rafael Kandiyoti discusses the fragile network of fossil fuel pipelines

  27. Creative constraints

    French poet Paul Fournel encourages writers to liberate imagination through constraints

  28. Creation and procreation

    Mary Beard reveals the secret ingredients that created laughter in the Roman world

  29. Confucianism in China today

    Canadian political philosopher Daniel Bell on China's renewed interest in Confucianism

  30. Children's literature

    Author and critic Antonia Byatt explores writing for children before the First World War

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