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(38 programmes)

  1. 06/12/2009

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    Eternity, the resilience of corruption and how we know what others are thinking

  2. 29/11/2009

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    How to find the world in a grain of sand or a human being

  3. 22/11/2009

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    Available since Sun, 29 Nov 2009.

    Frank Furedi, Sabrina Maniscalco & Tahmima Anam on education, entanglement and epiphany

  4. 15/11/2009

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    Antony Gormley, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Beau Lotto on the body, forgetting & illusion

  5. 08/11/2009

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    Available since Mon, 16 Nov 2009.

    1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, both an ending and a beginning

  6. 01/11/2009

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    Available since Sun, 15 Nov 2009.

    David Kilcullen, Robert Service, Catalin Avramescu

  7. 25/10/2009

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    Available since Wed, 28 Oct 2009.

    PD James, Cormac O'Grada, Karin Sanders

  8. 18/10/2009

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    Available since Sun, 25 Oct 2009.

    The Forum goes to New Zealand for a discussion with three eminent Kiwis

  9. 11/10/2009

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    Available since Sun, 18 Oct 2009.

    A special programme recorded at the Sydney Opera House in Australia

  10. 04/10/2009

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    Available since Sun, 11 Oct 2009.

    Simon Conway Morris, Eva Hoffman and Nicholas Dunlop

  11. 27/09/2009: Part 2

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    Available since Tue, 6 Oct 2009.

    Philosopher Sari Nusseibeh, radio-ecologist Brenda Howard, historian Giusto Traina

  12. 27/09/2009: Part 1

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    Philosopher Sari Nusseibeh, radio-ecologist Brenda Howard, historian Giusto Traina

  13. 20/09/2009: Part 2

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    Prominent international thinkers debating big ideas.

  14. 20/09/2009

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    Defence Expert Dr. P W Singer; Economist George Ayittey; Renaissance scholar Lisa Jardine.

  15. 13/09/2009: Part 2

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    Prominent international thinkers debating big ideas.

  16. 13/09/2009: Part 1

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    Novelist Margaret Atwood; Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones; sociology Prof. Diego Gambetta

  17. 06/09/2009: Part 2

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    China expert Martin Jacques, writer Hanif Kureishi, philosophy professor Arvind Sharma

  18. 06/09/2009: Part 1

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    China expert Martin Jacques, writer Hanif Kureishi, philosophy professor Arvind Sharma

  19. 30/08/2009: Part 2

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    Novelist Elias Khoury, ethologist Marc Bekoff, ethnographer Stefana Broadbent

  20. 30/08/2009: Part 1

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    Novelist Elias Khoury, ethologist Marc Bekoff, ethnographer Stefana Broadbent

  21. 23/08/2009: Part 2

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    Biologist Martin Chalfie, music historian Marina Frolova-Walker, novelist Kachi A Ozumba

  22. 23/08/2009: Part 1

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    Biologist Martin Chalfie, music historian Marina Frolova-Walker, novelist Kachi A Ozumba

  23. 16/08/2009: Part 2

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    Biologist Bert Hölldobler, sociologist Richard Sennett, curator Rose Issa

  24. 16/08/2009: Part 1

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    Biologist Bert Hölldobler, sociologist Richard Sennett, curator Rose Issa

  25. 09/08/2009: Part 2

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    Chemist Harry Kroto, artist Kutlug Ataman and anthropologist Nancy Ries

  26. 09/08/2009: Part 1

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    Chemist Harry Kroto, artist Kutlug Ataman and anthropologist Nancy Ries

  27. 02/08/2009: Part 2

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    Economist Amartya Sen, writer Henning Mankell and psychotherapist Camila Batmanghelidjh.

  28. 02/08/2009: Part 1

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    Economist Amartya Sen, writer Henning Mankell and psychotherapist Camila Batmanghelidjh.

  29. 26/07/2009: Part 2

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    Astronomer Andrea Ghez, economist Ian Goldin and cyberspace authority Evgeny Morozov.

  30. 26/07/2009: Part 1

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    Astronomer Andrea Ghez, economist Ian Goldin and cyberspace authority Evgeny Morozov

  31. 19/07/2009: Part 2

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    Sociologist Lord Anthony Giddens, novelist Ben Okri and anthropologist Sarah Hrdy.

  32. 19/07/2009: Part 1

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    Sociologist Lord Anthony Giddens, novelist Ben Okri and anthropologist Sarah Hrdy.

  33. 12/07/2009: Part 2

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    Religious commentator Karen Armstrong, biologist Stephen Hopper and author Brian Chikwava.

  34. 12/07/2009: Part 1

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    Religious commentator Karen Armstrong, biologist Stephen Hopper and author Brian Chikwava.

  35. 05/07/2009: Part 2

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    Physicist Frank Wilczek, writer & activist Arundhati Roy and philosopher Susan Neiman.

  36. 05/07/2009: Part 1

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    Physicist Frank Wilczek, writer & activist Arundhati Roy and philosopher Susan Neiman.

  37. 28/06/2009: Part 2

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    Environmentalist Wangari Maathai, geneticist Jane Peterson and novelist Dubravka Ugresic

  38. 28/06/2009: Part 1

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    Environmentalist Wangari Maathai, geneticist Jane Peterson and novelist Dubravka Ugresic

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