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BBC

Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday

Episodes

Mythmaking at Hay: from Medea to Rasputin

Farming, food production and rural life

German history

Laurie Anderson: Strange and Disorientating Landscapes

Chemical Reactions

Why Stuff Matters: Objects, Power and the Past

Challenges and solutions

Zoos, sex and conservation

Industrial action: from 1926 General Strike to today

Growing Up

Consciousness and Identity

Under the sea

Why we should read

Thinking about war

Breakage and repair

Fun and games

Censorship

Biology, technology and the future

Rethinking politics

The arts and health