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Michael Frayn and Rebecca Frayn – Live on Stage in London

Posted June 2024

Åsne Seierstad – The Afghans

Posted May 2024

Seven Myths That Changed England – and How to Set Them Straight

Posted May 2024

George the Poet – Me, Music, and the War on Blackness

Posted April 2024

Howard Jacobson — On Love and Desire

Posted February 2024

An Evening With Werner Herzog

Posted October 2023

Fake Heroes – Ten False Icons and How they Altered the Course of History

Posted August 2023

Everyday Utopia – Radical Experiments in the Good Life

Posted August 2023

Where Good Ideas Come From & How to Have More of Them

Posted July 2023

Sir Mark Rylance Meets Elizabeth Winkler

Posted June 2023

Why the Pursuit of Perfection is Bad for Your Health

Posted June 2023

What Do We Do With the Art of Monstrous Men?

Posted May 2023

David Thomson on the Art of Acting

Posted May 2023

How Extreme Capitalists Are Destroying Democracy

Posted April 2023

The Real Work – How We Learn and Master New Skills

Posted April 2023

How to be an Adult and Get Treated Like One

Posted April 2023

Culture – A New World History | Harvard Professor Martin Puchner

Posted February 2023

Frankie Boyle Meets Bernie Sanders — It’s OK To Be Angry About Capitalism

Posted February 2023

Money Box – How To Manage Your Money

Posted January 2023

Alan Moore – On Superheroes, Magic, and Imagination

Posted December 2022

An Evening With Kamila Shamsie

Posted November 2022

You Don't Know What War Is

Posted November 2022

An Evening With John Irving

Posted October 2022

Geena Davis - Live on Stage in London

Posted October 2022

William Boyd – The Romantic

Posted October 2022

David Dimbleby in conversation

Posted September 2022

Irvine Welsh – The Long Knives

Posted August 2022

Katherine Rundell Meets Yuval Noah Harari

Posted August 2022

Slavoj Zizek – the World Turned Upside Down

Posted August 2022

Behind the Scenes of the BBC’s Most Shocking Interviews

Posted August 2022

The Wanderers Who Shaped the World

Posted July 2022

Sathnam Sanghera – Marriage Material

Posted July 2022

The Fight For Authenticity

Posted July 2022

True Stories of Grifters, Killers and Crooks

Posted July 2022

Geoff Dyer – Live on Stage in London

Posted June 2022

Budapest – Between East and West

Posted June 2022

Eliot After The Waste Land

The World in 2050

Posted June 2022

Buried: An Alternative History of the Dark Ages

Posted May 2022

Evanna Lynch Meets Bonnie Wright

Posted May 2022

Minnie Driver – Live On-Stage in London

Posted May 2022

The Art of Life Writing

Posted April 2022

Adriene Mischler Meets Julia Cameron

Posted April 2022

The Meaning of Luck

Posted April 2022

When the Dust Settles

Posted April 2022

Delia Smith – Live on Stage in London

Posted March 2022

Does Power Corrupt?

Posted March 2022

Why We Love

Posted February 2022

David Nutt - The New Science of Cannabis

Posted February 2022

Salena Godden Meets Yrsa Daley-Ward

Posted February 2021

Michael Ignatieff on Consolation

Posted January 2022

Alan Moore and Brian Catling on Imagination

Posted January 2022

The Dawn of Everything

Sathnam Sanghera and William Dalrymple - the British in India

Posted December 2021

Janine di Giovanni – A Life in War

Posted December 2021

The Entwined History of Spying and Show Business

Posted December 2021

An Evening With Elif Shafak – The Island of Missing Trees

Posted December 2021

Blood and Bronze

Posted December 2021

Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah – A Life in Literature

Posted December 2021

Charlotte Higgins Retells the Greek Myths

Dec 2021

Fi Glover and Jane Garvey

Dec 2021

Ann Patchett – These Precious Days

Posted December 2021

John Illsley – My Life in Dire Straits

Posted November 2021

Lessons From Women In Power

How To Transform Your Home and Happiness

Posted November 2021

A New Philosophy of Life

Posted November 2021

Raynor Winn - The Meaning of Home

Posted November 2021

The Long-Term Impact of COVID-19

Posted November 2021

Johanna Basford – How to Discover Your Creative Self

Posted November 2021

Alex Ross on Wagner

Posted November 2021

The Story of Art

Posted November 2021

A History of Music in Seven Genres

Posted October 2021

Richard Powers - Bewilderment

Posted October 2021

A History of the World in Eight Colours

Posted October 2021

Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Murder on the Dance Floor

Posted October 2021

Bernard-Henri Lévy – Live On Stage In London

Posted October 2021

David Grossman – More Than I Love My Life

Posted October 2021

Eating to Extinction

Posted September 2021

Pandora Sykes Meets Shaparak Khorsandi

Posted September 2021

Robin DiAngelo and Beverly Daniel Tatum – Conversations About Race

Posted September 2021

How American Culture Changed the World

Posted September 2021

Cheryl Strayed – A Wild Life

Posted September 2021

The Status Game

Posted September 2021

Tristram Hunt – The Life of Wedgwood

Posted September 2021

Tom Stoppard – A Life

Posted September 2021

Ian Rankin – A Life In Crime

Posted September 2021

Sean Penn Meets Jon Lee Anderson

Posted September 2021

Mark Cousins – The Story of Looking

Posted August 2021

Rankin - How to Die Well

Posted July 2021

Amartya Sen – Home in the World

Posted July 2021

Kate Mosse - How to Write a Novel

Posted July 2021

How Anthropology Can Explain Business and Life

Posted July 2021

John Green – The Anthropocene Reviewed

Posted June 2021

Lisa Taddeo on Madness, Transgression and Power

Posted June 2021

William Blake Vs the World

Posted June 2021

Con-Artists of the Digital Age

Posted June 2021

The Sum of Us – What Racism Costs Everyone

Posted June 2021

Bill Clinton and James Patterson

Posted June 2021

Pandora’s Jar – Women in the Greek Myths

Posted June 2021

What Great Musical Minds Teach Us About Creativity

Posted June 2021

The Double Life of Bob Dylan

Posted June 2021

The Musical Human

Posted June 2021

The Life of DH Lawrence

Posted May 2021

Anish Kapoor – Life and Work

Posted May 2021

Sir David Hare – A Dramatic Life

Posted May 2021

A History of Movie Directors

Posted May 2021

Hannah Rothschild – The Demise of the Aristocracy

Posted May 2021

Keep It Moving - Life Lessons from Twyla Tharp

Posted May 2021

Screen Legends: Mike Leigh

Posted April 2021

The 42nd Anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Celebration

Posted April 2021

Edmund de Waal – Letters to Comondo

Posted April 2021

Life in the Pit Lane – Damon Hill and Johnny Herbert

Posted April 2021

James Comey – Saving Justice

Posted April 2021

Maggie O’Farrell – The Story of Hamnet

Posted April 2021

How Photography Invents the World

Posted April 2021

Those Who Can, Teach

Posted April 2021

The Road Not Taken – Reflections on Our Unled Lives

Posted April 2021

Cass Sunstein – This Is Not Normal

Posted April 2021

Law in a Time of Crisis

Posted April 2021

How To Bring Breakthrough Ideas to Life

Posted March 2021

The Revolutionary Act of Repairing Your Clothes

Posted March 2021

Own It – Diane von Furstenberg’s Manifesto for Personal Growth

Posted March 2021

Bari Weiss Meets David Baddiel - Jews Don’t Count

Posted March 2021

Isabel Allende – Power, Patriarchy, and Feminism

Posted March 2021

The Rise and Fall of Robert Maxwell

Posted March 2021

How to Build Exceptional Relationships with Friends, Family and Colleagues

Posted March 2021

How To Answer the 21st Century’s Greatest Challenges

Posted March 2021

On Drugs and Addiction – Will Self Meets David Nutt

Posted February 2021

Ian McEwan – a Life In Letters

Posted February 2021

Fiona Shaw – Life and Work

Posted February 2021

Peter Frankopan Meets Ai Weiwei – Stories from the Refugee Crisis

Posted February 2021

Mary Beard Meets Jonty Claypole - How to Get Tongue Tied

Posted February 2021

Francis Bacon – His Life and Work

Posted February 2021

James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today

Posted February 2020

Anthropologist Wade Davis – The Unravelling of the American Empire

Posted January 2021

How Stories Work – George Saunders' Masterclass in Writing and in Life

Erica Wagner meets Heidi Thomas and Stephen McGann

Posted January 2021

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall – How To Eat Better Forever

Posted January 2021

Comedian David Baddiel on Our Present and Future

Posted December 2020

Deborah Frances-White – An Evening With The Guilty Feminist

Posted December 2020

Caitlin Moran – How to Become More Than a Woman: a manifesto for middle-age

Posted December 2020

How to Love Nature and Save It

Posted December 2020

Eddie Jones – My Life and Rugby

Posted December 2020

The Power of Music

December 2020

Sebastião Salgado in conversation with Alan Riding

Posted December 2020

The War Against the BBC

Posted November 2020

Do you dare disturb the universe? A Beginner’s Guide to T.S. Eliot

Posted November 2020

Richard Dawkins on the Meaning of Life

Posted November 2020

Gonzo Artist and Trailblazing Maverick Ralph Steadman on His Life In Ink

Posted November 2020

An Evening With Yuval Noah Harari

Posted November 2020

A History of Class, Prejudice and British Cuisine: 1066 to 2020.

Posted November 2020

Artist and Activist Ai Weiwei – Human Rights in the Age of COVID-19

Posted November 2020

Why Do We Struggle To Talk About Death? Will Self Confronts Our Inevitable Mortality.

Posted November 2020

Extraordinary Lives – the Untold History of African Europeans

Posted November 2020

All Culture Is One: Sculptor Antony Gormley Meets Theoretical Physicist Carlo Rovelli

Posted November 2020

Quick, Call the Vet! Stories and Life Lessons from Bruce Fogle

Posted November 2020

Bananarama – The Inside Story of a World Record Breaking, Generation-Defining Band

Posted November 2020

An Evening With David Bailey

Posted November 2020

Hope, Heartbreak and Humanity - Dan Walker's Encounters with Extraordinary Lives

Posted October 2020

Exploring The Circles of Hell - Why Dante Matters Today

Posted October 2020

The 99% Invisible City - A field guide to the world of hidden design

Posted October 2020

Re-Telling the Stories of the Tattooist of Auschwitz

Posted October 2020

The Magic of Stories with Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell

Posted October 2020

Reality and Dreams - Why Ancient Wisdom Matters

Posted October 2020

Judas Priest’s frontman Rob Halford - Confessions of a Metal God

Posted September 2020

Bob Dylan - How Do the Songs Work?

Posted September 2020

WEIRD: How Psychology and Culture Co-evolved to Produce the Western Mind

Posted September 2020

John Cleese’s Guide to Creativity

Posted September 2020

The Life and Work of Stephen Hawking; from his Friend and Collaborator

Posted August 2020

NO BIO Homeland Elegies – A Novelist’s Reflections on the World After 9/11

Posted August 2020

The Hurt - England Captain Dylan Hartley on His Life in Rugby

Posted August 2020

River of Dreams – the World’s Leading Anthropologist Journeys to the Heart of Colombia

Posted August 2020

Terra Incognita – How To Survive the Next 100 Years

Posted August 2020

Miss Aluminum – My Life in 1970s Hollywood

Posted August 2020

My Father’s War – A True Story of Heroism From Nazi-Occupied Berlin

Posted August 2020

Was Shakespeare a Feminist? Dame Harriet Walter Explores His Legacy For Women

Posted August 2020

Thandie Newton Meets Gloria Steinem

Posted August 2020

How to Live a Full and Healthy Life – Deliciously Ella In Conversation

Posted August 2020

How to Read Proust – An Accessible Guide to the Greatest Novelist of All Time

Posted August 2020

In Search of the Lost Pianos of Siberia – a Journey Through Russia’s Wild East

Posted August 2020

Three Women – Journalist and Author Lisa Taddeo on Life, Love and Desire

Posted August 2020

Will You Be a Good Ancestor? A Guide to Long-Term Thinking in Our Short-Term World

Posted August 2020

How To Be Happy: Lessons from French Literature with Viv Groskop

Posted August 2020

Trials and Tribulations – Will Self on the Nightmare Vision of Franz Kafka

Posted August 2020

Such a Fun Age – Kiley Reid on Her Debut Novel and the State of the Nation

Posted August 2020

Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks – Building a Future Worth Fighting For

Posted August 2020

Life Lessons: Russell Brand on Happiness, Heroes and Mentors

Posted August 2020

Graham Norton in Conversation with Alice Levine

Posted August 2020

Tori Amos on Art and Activism and Music

Posted June 2020

Glennon Doyle on the Importance of Finding your True Self

Posted June 2020

Caitlin Moran on Fame, Fortune and Feminism

Posted September 2019

Ai Weiwei on human rights, propaganda and artistic expression.

Posted February 2020

The Truth About British Politics

Posted November 2019

Elizabeth Gilbert on Life and Love

Posted August 2020

Minnie Driver on the #MeToo Movement

Posted November 2018

Identity Politics, Dignity and Resentment

Posted November 2018

Niall Ferguson and Will Self on Politics

Posted September 2018

Who Wrote Shakespeare? The Stratfordian vs Anti-Stratfordian case

Posted July 2016

Has the #MeToo Movement Gone too Far?

Posted March 2018