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Curiosity, ingenuity and experimentation
Kirsty Wark talks to Suzie Sheehy, Laura Beatty and Philip Ball
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The age of the strongman leader
Tom Sutcliffe with Gideon Rachman, Judy Dempsey and Christopher de Bellaigue.
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NoViolet Bulawayo on Glory
Adam Rutherford with NoViolet Bulawayo, Dipo Faloyin and Julia Gallagher
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Love poetry; love books
Kirsty Wark with Katherine Rundell, Emma Smith and Megan Walsh
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Resistance
Tom Sutcliffe with Halik Kochanski, Arkady Ostrovsky and Nathan Law
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Liberalism in crisis
Amol Rajan with Francis Fukuyama, Helen Thompson and Edward Shawcross.
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Welsh identities
Helen Lewis with Richard Wyn Jones, Hanan Issa, Marion Loeffler and Richard King.
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Feathered friends
Tom Sutcliffe with Tim Birkhead, Alison Richard and Mark Glancy
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Creating art; reflecting life
Kirsty Wark with Kwame Kwei-Armah, Warsan Shire and Ralph Rugoff.
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Post-war/post-Covid
Helen Lewis with Peter Hennessy, Jane Alison and Farhan Samanani.