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Episodes (29)

Hungry for Life! An Evening with Prue Leith (Part Two)

33m3/31/2026

How and Why did Sexual Reproduction Evolve on our Planet? With Dr Lixing Sun

39m4/2/2026

Can Discomfort Be the Key to a Better Life? With Ken Rideout

36m4/4/2026

Stalin vs Trotsky: The Assassination That Changed History, with Josh Ireland

38m4/5/2026

Who Are Renoir’s Mystery Girls? With Catherine Ostler

42m4/7/2026

Should You Be Talking To AI? with Jamie Bartlett

44m4/9/2026

How Has Translation Transformed Shakespeare? With Daniel Hahn

54m4/11/2026

Is There a Crisis of Overdiagnosis in Modern Medicine? With Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan

48m4/12/2026

How Will the Climate Crisis Reshape Global Politics? With Former Diplomat and Author, Arthur Snell

49m4/14/2026

Why Did Elite Cambridge Graduates Become Soviet Spies? Revisiting the Cambridge Five, with Antonia Senior

40m4/16/2026

How Does Chemistry Shape our World? With Professor Dame Ijeoma Uchegbu

43m4/18/2026

Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby on The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence (Part One)

37m4/19/2026

Demis Hassabis and Sebastian Mallaby on The Quest for Artificial General Intelligence (Part Two)

33m4/21/2026

The Age of Growth: Live in Partnership with IBM

1h 2m4/25/2026

Lena Dunham: Famesick, with Dolly Alderton (Part One)

47m4/26/2026

Lena Dunham: Famesick, with Dolly Alderton (Part Two)

44m4/28/2026

What Will Trigger the Next World War? With Peter Apps

32m5/1/2026

An Evening with Kae Tempest (Part One)

44m5/2/2026

An Evening with Kae Tempest (Part Two)

47m5/3/2026

Weimar and Hitler: How did fascism take hold in Germany’s historic town? With Katja Hoyer

48m5/6/2026

How Is Predictive AI Shaping Our World? With AI Philosopher Carissa Véliz

38m5/7/2026

What Do We Ask Google, and What Does It Tell Us About Human Nature? With Simon Rogers

38m5/9/2026

London Falling: Patrick Radden Keefe on How Money, Power and Corruption Shape Our City, with Emily Maitlis (Part One)

34m5/10/2026

London Falling: Patrick Radden Keefe on How Money, Power and Corruption Shape Our City, with Emily Maitlis (Part Two)

33m5/12/2026

What Would Happen If We Met Aliens? With Neil deGrasse Tyson

47m5/15/2026

Has Far-Right Politics Entered The Mainstream in the UK? With Daniel Trilling

47m5/17/2026

Chasing Aliens, with Jon Ronson and Daniel Lavelle (Part One)

36m5/19/2026

Chasing Aliens, with Jon Ronson and Daniel Lavelle (Part Two)

35m5/21/2026

Love, Loss and Mourning Paul Auster, with Siri Hustvedt

39m5/16/2026

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