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Female ambition and control
Tom Sutcliffe with Jade Scott, Zinnie Harris and Stefan Stern.
A duty of care
Adam Rutherford with David Goodhart, Kathryn Faulke and Anna Coote.
From Sapiens to AI
Tom Sutcliffe talks to Yuval Noah Harari, Madhumita Murgia and Edith Hall
Oceans and the game of evolution
Amanda Vickery talks to Richard Powers, Peter Godfrey-Smith and Heather Koldewey.
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.