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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

2014 Festival

A Theatre of Their Own

Naomi Paxton on the movement for a women's theatre from the 1890s to the start of WWI.

• 15 mins

2014 Festival

Shakespeare and India

Preti Taneja explores the politics of language and its impact on Indian literature.

• 15 mins

2014 Festival

The Spin Doctors of 19th-Century America

Joanna Cohen compares 19th-century attitudes to American politicians with those of today.

• 15 mins

2014 Festival

Knowing Your Characters: David Greig and Siobhan Redmond in Conversation

Siobhan Redmond and David Greig discuss drama and how much one has to know about a play.

• 45 mins

2014 Festival

Happy Talk: Beatrix Campbell, Vincent Deary and Paul Dolan

Rana Mitter and a panel consider 'how much self-knowledge do we need to be happy?'.

• 45 mins

2014 Festival

The Cost of Free Information

Rana Mitter hosts a debate asking if the internet can make knowledge open to all.

• 45 mins

2014 Festival

Fear or Wonder: Everything Under the Moon

Have science fiction and space travel changed people's relationship with the world?

• 45 mins

William Kentridge, William Boyd, Photography

South African artist William Kentridge and novelist William Boyd talk to Philip Dodd.

• 45 mins

Frederick Forsyth, Emotion in Art

Presented by Matthew Sweet. With novelist Frederick Forsyth and a discussion on emotions.

• 45 mins

Everything You Never Knew About Indian History

Rana Mitter explores new research into India in the Second World War and the British Raj.

• 45 mins

Autism, The Financial Crisis, The Fallen Woman

Steve Silberman on autism, Gillian Tett on silos and Lynda Nead on 'fallen women'.

• 45 mins

Edmund de Waal, Orhan Pamuk

Ceramicist Edmund de Waal and author Orhan Pamuk are in conversation with Philip Dodd.

• 45 mins

Margaret Atwood, Yuval Harari, Celts

With novelist Margaret Atwood, exploring the history of mankind and an exhibition on Celts

• 45 mins