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2013 Festival

Therapy Versus Prayer

Christopher Harding explores religion and counselling in Japan and the UK.

• 15 mins

2013 Festival

Why Are Maps Still So Powerful?

A discussion asking if maps can reveal too much and how they direct our thinking.

• 45 mins

2013 Festival

Are Audiences Killing Culture?

Matthew Sweet presents a debate asking if the arts are leading or following public taste.

• 45 mins

2013 Festival

What's Eating You?

Authors Lionel Shriver and Val Curtis ask if we are too obsessed with food and body image.

• 45 mins

2013 Festival

Whose Strife Is It Anyway?

Who has the right to depict the experiences of the powerless? Rana Mitter chairs a debate.

• 45 mins

2013 Festival

Penny Woolcock

Director Penny Woolcock talks to Samira Ahmed about working in opera and film.

• 45 mins

European Cities on the Brink of War

AS Byatt, Alexandra Harris, Neil Brand and Philipp Blom on culture in Europe pre-WWI.

• 45 mins

Breaking Free: Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities

William Boyd, Margaret Drabble and Matthew Sweet discuss Musil's The Man Without Qualities

• 45 mins

Landmark: George Dangerfield's The Strange Death of Liberal England

Philip Dodd and guests discuss George Dangerfield's The Strange Death of Liberal England.

• 45 mins

TS Eliot Prize, Rebecca Lenkiewicz on The Oresteia

Sin茅ad Morrissey on winning the TS Eliot poetry prize; Rebecca Lenkiewicz on The Oresteia.

• 45 mins

Girls, Daniel Alarcon, The Constitution

Presented by Samira Ahmed. With the TV series Girls, Daniel Alarcon and the constitution.

• 45 mins

Oscar Nominations, Steve McQueen, Slavery Narratives

Director Steve McQueen talks to Matthew Sweet talks about his new film 12 Years a Slave.

• 45 mins

Suicide; black British actors; Roma; audio games

Matthew Sweet explores the sound of gaming and the way we talk about suicide.

• 45 mins

Japanese History, Chinese Democracy

Rana Mitter talks to Zhang Weiwei, one of China's leading public intellectuals.

• 45 mins

Simon Russell Beale; Derek Jarman

Simon Russell Beale talks about playing King Lear; an appraisal of Derek Jarman's career.

• 45 mins

Martin Creed, Feminism in Theatre, Pete Seeger

Matthew Sweet discusses the work of artist Martin Creed and debates feminism in theatre.

• 45 mins

Germaine Greer, Christos Tsiolkas

Samira Ahmed presents a special edition discussing Australian culture.

• 45 mins

Unrest in Ukraine and protest in Russia

Anne McElvoy discusses unrest in Ukraine and the state of dissent in Russia today.

• 45 mins

Christine Lagarde

Anne McElvoy explores the arguments of Christine Lagarde's Richard Dimbleby Lecture.

• 45 mins

The Monocled Mutineer; Roman Krznaric's Empathy Revolution

Matthew Sweet discusses TV series The Monocled Mutineer and First World War archives.

• 45 mins

Hanif Kureishi

Author Hanif Kureishi in extended interview with Philip Dodd.

• 45 mins

Spike Jonze's Her, Big Data

Matthew Sweet on Spike Jonze's new film Her, Big Data and the Internet of Things.

• 45 mins

Atheism and Belief

Philip Dodd discusses religious belief with Terry Eagleton, Peter Watson and Roger Scruton

• 45 mins

Jane Eyre versus Anne of Green Gables, Parent Power, Georg Baselitz, Flooding in Literature

Anne McElvoy discusses parent power, literary heroines, artist Georg Baselitz and floods.

• 45 mins

Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, Class in Britain, An Eton Education

With a review of Shelagh Delaney's play A Taste of Honey at the National Theatre.

• 45 mins

Landmark: Charlie Chaplin's City Lights

Matthew Sweet hosts a discussion about Chaplin recorded at the Bristol Slapstick Festival.

• 45 mins

France and Algeria, Birds, Augustus

Anne McElvoy discusses France and its former colonies, plus bird mating systems.

• 45 mins

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Danny Dorling

Samira Ahmed considers scoundrels in culture and also the housing market.

• 45 mins

Amy Chua, Versailles by Peter Gill, Spitting Image

Writers Amy Chua and Jed Rubenfeld talk to Anne McElvoy about what determines success.

• 45 mins

Vikings, Seafaring and Navigation

Matthew Sweet visits the British Museum's Vikings exhibition.

• 45 mins