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Andrew Marr talks to Dr Peter Wothers about modern day alchemy.
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Ken Loach on post-war Britain
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Tom Sutcliffe talks to John Gray and Mary Beard
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'Home' and cultural identity with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, David Goodhart, Indhu Rubasingham and Michael Symmons Roberts.
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Jonathan Freedland talks to Adam Rutherford, Barbara Sahakian and Steve Jones.
Bernardo Bertolucci
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Michael Rosen at the Brighton Festival
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Music and the mind: Carrie Cracknell
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Antonia Fraser: Democracy and Reform
Anne McElvoy talks to Antonia Fraser, David Graeber and Jesse Norman.
Eric Schmidt on the New Digital Age
Emily Maitlis speaks to Eric Schmidt, Honor Harger, David Spiegelhalter and James Ball.
Fairy Tale Physics?
Allan Little with Jon Butterworth, Jim Baggott, Hilary Rose and Stephen Minger.
Putin's Russia
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Hari Kunzru and Dystopia
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Zadie Smith on social mobility
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Margaret Atwood's Dystopian Future
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Greek myth and the Indian epic Ramayana
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