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Unruly bodies
Adam Rutherford with Emma Dabiri, Carol Morley and Cat Bohannon.
Infected blood - from scandal to inquiry
Tom Sutcliffe with Cara McGoogan, Jason Evans and Gabriel Scally.
Soundtrack to life
Kirsty Wark with Natalie Merchant, Michel Faber and Jeffrey Boakye
China – its poetry and economy
Tom Sutcliffe with Noo Saro-Wiwa, Michael Wood and George Magnus
Music – from page to performance
Adam Rutherford with Errollyn Wallen, Laurence Cummings and Emma Smith.
Monet and machine vision
Tom Sutcliffe with Jackie Wullschläger, Mat Collishaw and Jill Walker Rettberg
Space – the human story
Kirsty Wark with astronaut Tim Peake, writer Samantha Harvey and physicist Roberto Trotta.
Playing games
Tom Sutcliffe with Marcus du Sautoy, Anthony Bale, Jane Draycott and GT Karber
Small states: global impact and survival
Adam Rutherford with Armen Sarkissian, Margaret MacMillan and Lyse Doucet
AI, states and corporations
Tom Sutcliffe with Mike Wooldridge, Naomi Alderman and David Runciman.
A century of Labour
Tom Sutcliffe with Jon Cruddas, Jane Green and Jonathan White.
Climate resolutions
Kirsty Wark with Hannah Ritchie, Akshat Rathi and Michael Meredith.
War crimes justice
Tom Sutcliffe with Gary J Bass, Lyndsey Stonebridge and Christopher Stephen.
Made out of glass
Adam Rutherford with Jasmine Allen, Ayako Tani, John Parker and Claire Corkhill.
Opium trade to synthetic opiates
Tom Sutcliffe with Amitav Ghosh, Richard Brittan and Fiona Measham.
Global influences
Kirsty Wark with Josephine Quinn, Carolina Rangel de Lima and Christopher Harding.
Arts: changing the world?
Tom Sutcliffe with Ellen E Jones, Hew Locke and Noora Niasari
Weighty issues
Tom Sutcliffe with Naveed Sattar, Stephanie Yeboah and Henry Dimbleby
Mysterious Plants
Kirsty Wark with Chris Thorogood, Kelsey Byers and William Milliken
Time passing: ageing, memory and nostalgia
Adam Rutherford with Venki Ramakrishnan, Charan Ranganath and Agnes Arnold-Forster
Intrigue and disinformation from the Russian Revolution to Ukraine invasion
Tom Sutcliffe with Andrey Kurkov, Peter Pomerantsev and Charlotte Jee.
Crossing borders and belonging
Adam Rutherford with Viet Thanh Nguyen, Helena Lee and Jessica J Lee.
The war between science and religion
Tom Sutcliffe with Michael Taylor, Nick Spencer and Frances Flinter.
Music and poetry
Kirsty Wark discusses poetry and music with Alison Balsom, Graeme Lawson and John Burnside
Power to the people
Tom Sutcliffe discusses democracy with Erica Benner, Alpa Shah and Bobby Duffy.
City living
Adam Rutherford explores the city with Ben Power, Amanda Levete and Simon Kuper.
Alien life and gravity
Tom Sutcliffe with Lisa Kaltenegger, Claudia de Rham and Mark Fromhold
Protest and patriotism
Jackie Kay, Caroline Lucas and Simon Heffer with Adam Rutherford.
Bees – culture and survival
Tom Sutcliffe with Wolfgang Buttress, Claire Preston, Lars Chittka and Alison Benjamin
Art: market, money and malfeasance
Tom Sutcliffe with Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, Orlando Whitfield and Angelina Giovani
Reading the Bible
Kirsty Wark swaps Bible stories with Marilynne Robinson, Naomi Alderman and Malika Booker