The deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on Earth. In The Brilliant Abyss the marine biologist Helen Scales dives...
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The deep sea is the last, vast wilderness on Earth. In The Brilliant Abyss the marine biologist Helen Scales dives...
41:59
Family struggles - from Greek tragedy to The Troubles
Kerri ní Dochartaigh was born in Derry-Londonderry at the height of the Troubles, to a Catholic mother and Protestant...
42:13
What happens when real life collides with your digital existence – the writer and ‘Poet Laureate of...
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Empire and class, shaping Britain
Britain is a direct product of its imperial past. So argues the writer Sathnam Sanghera in his latest book,...
42:09
The fall of Maxwell – the end of an era.
He was born into abject poverty in Czechoslovakia, fought for the British and was decorated for his heroism in WWII,...
41:40
Mariana Mazzucato on moonshot economics
Mariana Mazzucato, Professor of Economics at University College London, tells Amol Rajan it’s time western...
42:25
Francis Bacon is one of Britain’s greatest twentieth century artists – a painter who captured and exposed...
41:56
The Acts of Union 1707 brought together England and Scotland, ‘United into One Kingdom by the Name of Great...
41:40
2020 has been disastrous for the arts in Britain and many people have lost their jobs as Covid-19 has swept through...
42:13
Thomas Becket and the rift between church and state
As the 850th anniversary of the murder of Thomas Becket approaches Andrew Marr explores the dynamic between church...
41:35
Inspiring awe – from the heavens to the oceans
Look into the night sky in the coming days and Jupiter and Saturn will appear closer than they’ve been since...
42:08
Why do we laugh? This is the question the evolutionary ecologist Jonathan Silvertown sets out to answer in his latest...
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Human ingenuity and shared inheritance
Amol Rajan explores different ways of thinking, and how far humans can be seen as unique for their ability to invent....
42:10
Human ingenuity and shared inheritance
Amol Rajan explores different ways of thinking, and how far humans can be seen as unique for their ability to invent....
42:11
Derrida, Woolf, and the pleasure of reading
‘A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition...
42:10
Ireland itself is a main character in Kevin Barry's new short story collection, That Old Country Music. He brings the...
42:27
Sir Roger Penrose was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in physics this year for his ground-breaking work on black...
43:01
The Latin scholar Shadi Bartsch has written a new translation of Virgil’s The Aeneid. She tells Kirsty Wark how...
42:20
The pandemic has exposed serious weaknesses in Western governments, according to John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief...
42:15
Fake news and data lies: how to win an election
Fake news, conspiracy theories, and weaponising data to influence elections are all aspects of contemporary politics....
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