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    Life in the first person

    Oliver Mears, Tiffany Watt Smith and Anil Seth talk to Tom Sutcliffe.

  2. Ali Smith

    Ali Smith in conversation with Andrew Marr

  3. Jackie Kay on Bessie Smith

    Kirsty Wark with Jackie Kay, Rosemary Hill and Michael Armitage

  4. London - villain and victim?

    Andrew Marr with Iestyn Davies, Jennifer Kavanagh and Jack Brown

  5. Lionel Shriver on life and death decisions

    Tom Sutcliffe with Lionel Shriver, David Jarrett and Jack Thorne.

  6. DH Lawrence: life and work

    Andrew Marr with Frances Wilson, Salman Rushdie and Simon Armitage

  7. On Thin Ice: Glaciers, Geopolitics, and Nature's Goods

    Kirsty Wark with Jemma Wadham, Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson and Dwayne Ryan Menezes.

  8. Daniel Kahneman on 'noisy' human judgement

    Andrew Marr with Daniel Kahneman, Gillian Tett and Ann Cairns.

  9. The opioid crisis and erosion of trust

    Amol Rajan with Patrick Radden Keefe, Zoe Williams and Heidi Larson

  10. Art - plunder, power and prestige

    Andrew Marr with Cynthia Saltzman, Francesco da Mosto and Charles Saumarez Smith.

  11. Personal faith and the Church

    Tom Sutcliffe with Chine McDonald, Giles Fraser and Jeet Thayil.

  12. What if the Incas had colonised Europe?

    Andrew Marr with Laurent Binet, Caroline Dodds Pennock and Christienna Fryar.

  13. Nuclear destruction

    Amol Rajan with Serhii Plokhy, Patricia Lewis and Sarah Rainsford

  14. Defining mental illness

    Andrew Marr with Suzanne O’Sullivan, Lucy Foulkes and Sally Holland

  15. Trade deals and human rights – in Africa and China

    Andrew Marr with Tom Tugendhat, Geetha Tharmaratnam and Michela Wrong.

  16. Newton: science and worldly riches

    Tom Sutcliffe with Edward St Aubyn, Patricia Fara and Chris van Tulleken.

  17. Rights and responsibilities

    Andrew Marr with Matthew d’Ancona, Minouche Shafik and Kenan Malik

  18. Understanding Melancholy

    Amol Rajan with Mary Ann Lund, Horatio Clare and Ahmed Hankir.

  19. Monsters of the deep

    Andrew Marr with Helen Scales, Philip Hoare and Elizabeth Kolbert

  20. Family struggles - from Greek tragedy to The Troubles

    Kirsty Wark with Sally Bayley, Kerri ní Dochartaigh and Lisa Dwan.

  21. Living online and IRL

    Andrew Marr with Patricia Lockwood, Roisin Kiberd and Matthew Syed.

  22. Empire and class, shaping Britain

    Tom Sutcliffe with Sathnam Sanghera, Selina Todd and Anthony Anaxagorou

  23. The fall of Maxwell – the end of an era.

    Andrew Marr with John Preston, Julia Langdon and Emily Bell.

  24. Mariana Mazzucato on moonshot economics

    Amol Rajan with Mariana Mazzucato, Vince Cable and Robert Verkaik

  25. Francis Bacon revealed

    Andrew Marr with Annalyn Swan, Russell T Davies and Mark-Anthony Turnage

  26. Scotland and the Union

    Andrew Marr with Ailsa Henderson, Ruth Wishart, Ben Jackson and Karin Bowie.

  27. Nicholas Hytner

    The award-winning theatre director Nicholas Hytner in conversation with Andrew Marr.

  28. Thomas Becket and the rift between church and state

    Andrew Marr with Laura Ashe, Christopher de Hamel and Andrew Hussey.

  29. Inspiring awe – from the heavens to the oceans

    Tom Sutcliffe with Stuart Clark, Rebecca Giggs and Antony Gormley.

  30. Laughter

    Andrew Marr with Sindhu Vee, John Mullan and Jonathan Silvertown.

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