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Episodes


The Country of Others, with Leïla Slimani and Shahidha Bari

Stop Pretending We Can Save the Planet, with Jonathan Franzen

The Sunday Debate: Parenting Doesn’t Matter

The Right to Sex, with Amia Srinivasan and Merve Emre

The Power of Giving Away Power with Matthew Barzun and Kamal Ahmed

The Sunday Debate: Napoleon the Great? With Andrew Roberts, Adam Zamoyski and Jeremy Paxman

Testosterone: Debunking the Myths of the Misunderstood Hormone with Carole Hooven

Michael Pollan: This Is Your Mind on Plants

The Sunday Debate: Brave New World vs 1984

Debate: Abolish Billionaires

Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination, with Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang

The Sunday Debate: Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism

Is Mass Migration Making the World a Better Place?

The Truth about Fake News, with Marcus Gilroy-Ware and Richard Seymour

The Ever-Changing Brain with David Eagleman and Brian Eno

Race and Guns in a Divided America, with Carol Anderson and Mark Mardell

The Sunday Debate: The Catholic Church is a Force For Good in the World

Albums that Changed My Life, with Tom Gatti, David Mitchell and Preti Taneja

Emma Dabiri and Alex Renton on Race, Reckoning and What We Can Do Next
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