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Bridget Kendall and her three guests enter the night.
Mental Health
Global ideas on tackling mental illness, in a discussion led by Bridget Kendall.
Memory
What are memories and what role do they play? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.
The Power of Technology
Does digital technology open or close our minds? A show from the Aspen Festival of Ideas.
Aftermath
How do you rebuild after traumatic events? Bridget Kendall and her guests discuss.
Controlling Our Health
The best way to cope with a life-changing illness? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.
Revenge
Is revenge useful? Bridget Kendall and three global thinkers discuss.
The Real and the Virtual
Bridget Kendall and guests explore the boundaries of reality in art and maths.
Disgust
What disgusts you? Bridget Kendall and guests explore this basic human emotion.
Plant and flower shapes
How do flowers get their shape? Bridget Kendall explores nature's mysteries.
The vanishing world of our ancestors
Our ancestors can teach us a thing or two. Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.
The Hidden Kingdom of Fungi
Chocolate? Furniture? Clothes? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss novel uses for fungi.
Silence
What can silence mean? Bridget Kendall and guests contemplate a lack of noise.
Peering into Space
Cutting-edge space science from the 2013 Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado.
Fragility
Bridget Kendall and her guests discuss fragility, in humans and in ecosystems.
Crystals
Bridget Kendall and her guests shine a light on crystals, both scientific and artistic.
Dust and Ash
Good or bad? Useful or just an annoyance? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss dust and ash.
Second Chances
How different are our second attempts at something compared to the first time?
Tracking and Surveillance
Bridget Kendall and guests explore the shadowy world of tracking and surveillance.
The Forum in Beijing: Digital China
Does the explosion of social media in China empower the individual or the state?
Ice
Marvel at the frozen world of the polar ice caps with Bridget Kendall and guests.
Hands
Do our hands mark us out as human? Bridget Kendall and guests discuss.
Modern Alchemy
Transforming waste into valuable products, with Bridget Kendall and guests.
Counterfeiting
Bridget Kendall asks why there are such lucrative markets in fake art and fake medicines.
Zooming Out
Bridget invites listeners to zoom out into space, to gain new perspectives on reality.
Hair, Fur and Cilia
Bridget Kendall and her guests explore the slender filaments that are essential to life.
Outcasts: The Forum at Risor Festival, Norway
What is it like to be on the edge of Europe? And do modern societies create new outcasts?
Solitude
When being alone is a blessing, and when it is a blight.
Democracy and the Arts in South Africa
What role can art play in the political discourse of post-apartheid South Africa?
Time to Rethink What Is 'Normal'?
Where is the dividing line between normal behaviour and a mental health problem?
Bubbles
The curious properties of bubbles in the oceans, in our bodies and in art.