The toxic mix of gun addiction and mental health in America 
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Artist Galya Morrell: My close encounter with silence Duration: 01:08 Silence
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Writer Aminatta Forna: Are we good as we think we are? Photo by Burt Hardy / Getty Duration: 00:38 Us and Them
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Fungal ecologist Lynne Boddy on how fungi fight each other for resources Duration: 01:52 The Mysterious Kingdom of Fungi
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Evgeny Morozov on why ‘smart’ forks may not be so smart. Duration: 00:38 Obsessions, new and old, in literature and technology
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Plastic-eating bugs: 60 second idea to change the world from Susan Blackmore Duration: 01:05 Viruses: in medicine, technology and in our minds
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Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze performs her celebrated poem ‘Simple Tings’ Duration: 01:22 The Forum @ London's South Bank: A celebration of women of African and Caribbean descent.
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Meet the presenter: Bridget Kendall
- She is a BBC diplomatic correspondent and has been since 1998
- She was a foreign correspondent in Moscow (1989-94) and Washington (1994-98)
- The first woman to win the James Cameron Award for distinguished Journalism (1992)
- In 1994 she was made an MBE
- Speaks fluent Russian and French
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