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13/09/2009: Part 2
Prominent international thinkers debating big ideas.
19/07/2009: Part 1
Sociologist Lord Anthony Giddens, novelist Ben Okri and anthropologist Sarah Hrdy.
12/07/2009: Part 2
Religious commentator Karen Armstrong, biologist Stephen Hopper and author Brian Chikwava.
26/07/2009: Part 2
Astronomer Andrea Ghez, economist Ian Goldin and cyberspace authority Evgeny Morozov.
20/09/2009
Defence Expert Dr. P W Singer; Economist George Ayittey; Renaissance scholar Lisa Jardine.
19/07/2009: Part 2
26/07/2009: Part 1
Astronomer Andrea Ghez, economist Ian Goldin and cyberspace authority Evgeny Morozov
12/07/2009: Part 1
02/08/2009: Part 1
Economist Amartya Sen, writer Henning Mankell and psychotherapist Camila Batmanghelidjh.
02/08/2009: Part 2
05/07/2009: Part 2
Physicist Frank Wilczek, writer & activist Arundhati Roy and philosopher Susan Neiman.
09/08/2009: Part 1
Chemist Harry Kroto, artist Kutlug Ataman and anthropologist Nancy Ries
09/08/2009: Part 2
16/08/2009: Part 1
Biologist Bert H枚lldobler, sociologist Richard Sennett, curator Rose Issa
16/08/2009: Part 2
06/09/2009: Part 1
China expert Martin Jacques, writer Hanif Kureishi, philosophy professor Arvind Sharma
30/08/2009: Part 2
Novelist Elias Khoury, ethologist Marc Bekoff, ethnographer Stefana Broadbent
06/09/2009: Part 2
30/08/2009: Part 1
13/09/2009: Part 1
Novelist Margaret Atwood; Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones; sociology Prof. Diego Gambetta
23/08/2009: Part 2
Biologist Martin Chalfie, music historian Marina Frolova-Walker, novelist Kachi A Ozumba
20/09/2009: Part 2
28/06/2009: Part 1
Environmentalist Wangari Maathai, geneticist Jane Peterson and novelist Dubravka Ugresic
27/09/2009: Part 2
Philosopher Sari Nusseibeh, radio-ecologist Brenda Howard, historian Giusto Traina
27/09/2009: Part 1
04/10/2009
Simon Conway Morris, Eva Hoffman and Nicholas Dunlop
11/10/2009
A special programme recorded at the Sydney Opera House in Australia
18/10/2009
The Forum goes to New Zealand for a discussion with three eminent Kiwis
26/10/2009 GMT
What triggers earthquakes and why do we know so little? Plus the Arctic and African cities
25/10/2009
PD James, Cormac O'Grada, Karin Sanders
01/11/2009
David Kilcullen, Robert Service, Catalin Avramescu