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Jonathan Sacks, Milan Kundera Novel, Stephen Adly Guirgis Play

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks talks to Philip Dodd about confronting religious violence.

• 45 mins

Muriel Spark, Digital Life, Diversity in British Poetry

New Generation Thinker Laurence Scott talks to Rana Mitter about living in a digital world

• 45 mins

Political and Bardic Traditions in Wales

Matthew Sweet examines Welsh politics and poetry with Gwyneth Lewis and Iain Sinclair.

• 45 mins

Community, The Amber Collective, Poet Claudia Rankine

Philip Dodd discusses community with Toby Young and looks at historic images of Newcastle.

• 45 mins

Tales of Scotland: A Nation and its Literature

Anne McElvoy talks to Janice Galloway about explorations of Scottishness.

• 45 mins

Spy Fiction, Worrying, Joseph Cornell

AL Kennedy, Virginia Ironside and Francis O'Gorman discuss worrying in literature and life

• 45 mins

Touch and Emotion, Siobhan Davies, Public

Philip Dodd on the links between dance, art and the brain. Plus the meaning of 'public'.

• 45 mins

2015 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year Debate

Anne McElvoy chairs the 2015 Museum of the Year directors' debate at Tate Modern in London

• 45 mins

Pather Panchali, Sunjeev Sahota, Invalidism

Rana Mitter discusses Pather Panchali with Tariq Ali and talks to novelist Sunjeev Sahota.

• 45 mins

Landmark - Jaws: Sharks and Whales

Matthew Sweet discusses the film Jaws with writer Will Self and shark expert Gareth Fraser

• 45 mins

Law, Language and Legal Aid. Gore Vidal v William F Buckley Jr

Philip Dodd discusses law and language and reviews a new play by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

• 45 mins

French Thought, Thomas the Rhymer

Anne McElvoy discusses French intellectual traditions with Sudhir Hazareesingh.

• 45 mins

Slung Low's Camelot, Penny Woolcock, Bryan Stevenson, Go Set a Watchman

Philip Dodd on Camelot: The Shining City in Sheffield. Plus a review of the new Harper Lee

• 45 mins

Chalke Valley History Festival: Heroism v Failure

David Starkey, Amanda Foreman and Saul David debate heroism and failure in history.

• 45 mins

2014 Festival

Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong argues that a recognition of how little we know is the only way to peace.

• 60 mins

2014 Festival

Knowing Your Enemy: Andrey Kurkov, Gabrielle Rifkind, John Kampfner

A discussion exploring protest, foreign policy, intervention and peace-making.

• 45 mins

2014 Festival

You Must See This

Matthew Sweet chairs a debate exploring technology's impact on cultural taste.

• 45 mins

2014 Festival

Right Thinking People

David Willetts MP and Roger Scruton discuss how much specialist knowledge politicians need

• 45 mins

2014 Festival

Burning the Facts: The Link Between Lord Lucan and Joan of Arc

Historian Helen Castor and biographer Laura Thompson discuss myths, mysteries and evidence

• 45 mins

2014 Festival

From Flat Caps to Benefit Caps

David Almond, Eliza Carthy and Alison Light debate working class history with Anne McElvoy

• 45 mins

2014 Festival

Imagining Turkey: Elif Shafak in Conversation

Turkish writer Elif Shafak joins Anne McElvoy in conversation at Sage Gateshead.

• 45 mins

2014 Festival

Bringing the Rich to Book: John Lanchester on the Language of Money

John Lanchester discusses the wealth gap, banking and how we understand the economy.

• 45 mins

2014 Festival

Animals: Watching Us Watching Them Watching Each Other

Rana Mitter explores the links between the behaviour of animals and humans.

• 45 mins

2014 Festival

The Human Copying Machine

Tiffany Watt-Smith explores the interest of Victorian scientists in our urge to imitate.

• 15 mins

2014 Festival

Scold the Front Page

Tom Charlton on what 17th-century ideas about censorship share with the Leveson report.

• 15 mins

2014 Festival

Is Marriage an Identity Crisis?

Sophie Coulombeau explores the history of women changing their surnames when marrying.

• 15 mins

2014 Festival

Disraeli the Romantic

Daisy Hay considers the way Benjamin Disraeli used his private life for political ends.

• 15 mins

2014 Festival

Beards and Whiskers

Alun Withey explains what shaving tells us about medical advances and military strategy.

• 15 mins

2014 Festival

Beastly Politics

Alasdair Cochrane of Sheffield University argues that animals should have greater rights.

• 15 mins

2014 Festival

Speech Before Words

Will Abberley explores the evolution of language and what we learn from science fiction.

• 15 mins