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Ancient India and China: from golden to silk roads
Adam Rutherford with William Dalrymple, Shanay Jhaveri and Susan Whitfield.
Chance and fortune
Tom Sutcliffe with David Spiegelhalter, Eliza Filby and Roddy Doyle
On Freedom
Tom Sutcliffe with Timothy Snyder, Oksana Maksymchuk and Lucy Ash
Weaving magic in words, clay and paper
Kirsty Wark with Kathleen Jamie, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Mark Hearld and Naomi Robertson
Animal communication
Tom Sutcliffe with Martin Wikelski, Kapka Kassabova and Ilyena Hirskyj-Douglas
Politeness and civility
Adam Rutherford with Louise Mullany, John Gallagher, Susie Dent and Matt Forde.
‘Left behind’, but not forgotten
Tom Sutcliffe with Paul Collier, Joanna Kusiak and Matthew Xia.
Hay Festival: ancient wisdom and ecology
Adam Rutherford with Robin Wall Kimmerer, Hugh Warwick and Olivia Laing at Hay Festival
Reading the Bible
Kirsty Wark swaps Bible stories with Marilynne Robinson, Naomi Alderman and Malika Booker
Art: market, money and malfeasance
Tom Sutcliffe with Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Orlando Whitfield and Angelina Giovani