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Power to the people

2024 has been dubbed the year of elections, as at least 64 countries – including the UK – are...

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Music and poetry

Humankind’s relationship with music can be traced back millions of years and across continents....

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The war between science and religion

The historian Michael Taylor looks back at the past tug of war between religion and science, and...

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Crossing borders and belonging

The Vietnamese American writer Viet Thanh Nguyen was awarded the Pulitzer prize for his debut...

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Intrigue and disinformation from the Russian Revolution to Ukraine invasion

Andrey Kurkov is Ukraine’s most celebrated novelist. When Russia invaded Ukraine he turned his...

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Time passing: ageing, memory and nostalgia

The Nobel prize winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan explores how time affects our...

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Mysterious Plants

The plant Rafflesia has the world’s largest flowers and gives off one of the worst scents; it’s...

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Weighty issues

Over the past 50 years, worldwide obesity rates have tripled, and now headlines increasingly...

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Arts: changing the world?

The journalist and broadcaster Ellen E. Jones explores the immense potential of film to challenge...

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Global influences

Ancient Greece and Rome loom large in the understanding of the roots of Western Civilisation, but...

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Opium trade to synthetic opiates

The trade in opium formed a backdrop to Amitav Ghosh’s best-selling novels, The Ibis Trilogy. In...

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Made out of glass

The history of glass-making dates back to at least 3,600 years ago in Mesopotamia, and both...

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War crimes justice

The legal framework to prosecute war crimes and prohibit the use of ‘aggressive war’ came out of...

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Climate resolutions

The data analyst Hannah Ritchie challenges the doomsday climate scenarios dominating the...

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A century of Labour

The Labour Party first took office on 22nd January 1924. In the century that followed it has only...

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AI, states and corporations

Artificial Intelligence will be the focus of this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures by...

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Small states: global impact and survival

With the fall of the Soviet Union, the theoretical physicist Armen Sarkissian returned home and...

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Playing games

It’s play time on Start the Week. The mathematician Marcus Du Sautoy looks at the numbers behind...

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Space – the human story

Tim Peake was the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station, and is one of...

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Monet and machine vision

The Impressionist painter Claude Monet wrote that he was driven ‘wild with the need to put down...

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