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05/09/2010
Can freedom of choice be a burden?
12/09/2010
What heals pain? Silence or speaking out?
19/09/2010
New Science of living longer plus Clay Shirky
26/09/2010
How monkeys can teach us more about human irrationality plus writer Marilynne Robinson.
03/10/2010
Former England Cricket captain Mike Brearley explains what makes a good team, great.
10/10/2010
This week on the Forum: empathy in great apes, ancient Athens and fictional characters.
17/10/2010
This week on The Forum, pragmatism versus idealism.
24/10/2010
Can reading ever be dangerous? With bestselling novelist Audrey Niffenegger.
31/10/2010
This week, The Forum trains its sights a long way beyond the horizon.
07/11/2010
Special recording from Belfast: Creating a post-conflict society.
14/11/2010
Is there a place for honour in the modern world?
27/11/2010 GMT
Manipulation or collaboration: P.J.O'Rourke, nano technology and our music instinct.
21/11/2010
The new plasma engine that will make your trip to Mars as easy as crossing the Atlantic.
04/12/2010 GMT
Challenging Indian history and identity with Lord Desai, plus language and sex identities.
11/12/2010 GMT
Can the places where we live, work and heal affect our wellbeing?
18/12/2010 GMT
How can you tell if fish feel pain and will the answer change the way we treat them?
25/12/2010 GMT
Exchanging ideas on five thousand years of Mediterranean calendars, festivals and ports
01/01/2011 GMT
Exploring colour with 3 perspectives on how colour changes the way we see the world
08/01/2011 GMT
How artists can reveal the way our brain works
15/01/2011 GMT
Three distinguished medicine men who have all made their mark in different areas.
22/01/2011 GMT
A radical rethink of the future of rich countries.
29/01/2011 GMT
Forum at Jaipur Literature Festival: dharma, greed, envy, quacks and Nepali Buddhists
06/02/2011 GMT
At the Jaipur Festival: Indian astrology, neon-lit nights and overbearing families
After Shock: The Lingering Legacy of Civil War
Sri Lanka after the war 鈥� special discussion from the Galle Literary Festival
19/02/2011 GMT
Things we would rather avoid.
26/02/2011 GMT
Special show from Sri Lanka literary festival about love
05/03/2011 GMT
This week on The Forum, managing the commons and establishing democracy after apartheid
12/03/2011 GMT
Meeting the challenges of the unknown
19/03/2011 GMT
Hypocrisy, multiverses and artificial leather: mind-stretching thoughts about life.
26/03/2011 GMT
Finding new ways to combat HIV, the biggest killer of young women in Africa
02/04/2011 GMT
New and old revolutionaries in the Middle East: women, artists and soldiers
