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Episodes


Magna Carta: Myth and Meaning

Art must be beautiful

An evening with Britain's best poets

The High Street is dead, long live the High Street

The War on Terror was the right response to 9/11

Bernard-Henri Lévy on the Libyan intervention and universal values

Beware of the dragon: Africa should not look to China

Umberto Eco In Conversation With Paul Holdengräber

Brian Cox & Alice Roberts on the Incredible Unlikeliness of Human Existence

P.J. O'Rourke: The Funniest Man in America

I'd rather Be a Roundhead than a Cavalier

David Grossman in conversation with Linda Grant

Psychiatrists & the pharma industry are to blame for the current ‘epidemic’ of mental disorders

William Gibson on 'Zero History' with Cory Doctorow

Stop Bashing Christians! Britain has become an anti-Christian country

Is London too rich to be interesting?

Karen Armstrong on Religion and the History of Violence

Napoleon The Great?

Steven Pinker on Good Writing with Ian McEwan
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