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Start the Week
Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday
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20 of 647 episodesChemical Reactions
What can chemistry reveal about what it means to be human? On Radio 4’s weekly conversation programme, Tom Sutcliffe leads a conversation th...
Why Stuff Matters: Objects, Power and the Past
What can the things we create, keep and bury tell us about who we are? On Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Adam Rutherford explores ma...
Challenges and solutions
Is radical change possible to solve some of today’s most intractable problems? In Radio 4's weekly discussion programme, Tom Sutcliffe is jo...
Zoos, sex and conservation
How have the evolutionary forces that shaped animal sex and behaviour influenced the ways humans conserve, study and coexist with other spec...
Industrial action: from 1926 General Strike to today
What can past and present struggles over work and power tell us about the future of labour? Tom Sutcliffe and guests examine tensions betwee...
Growing Up
How do the stories we inherit, and the ones we tell, shape our journey from childhood into adulthood? In Radio 4's weekly discussion program...
Consciousness and Identity
What makes us who we are? In Radio 4's discussion programme to start off the week, Tom Sutcliffe and guests explore consciousness and identi...
Under the sea
What lies beneath the world's oceans? From the phenomenal infrastructure of telecoms cables to shipwrecked galleons and treasure and the sea...
Reading and storytelling
The UK government has declared 2026, the National Year of Reading. The numbers suggest that reading needs all the public relations it can ge...
Thinking about war
How do we think about war? How do we imagine it, picture it and explain it? Adam Rutherford hosts Radio 4's discussion programme which start...
Breakage and repair
When society, financial systems and human beings fall short, how can we repair the damage? Tom Sutcliffe hosts Radio 4's discussion programm...
Fun and games
Games are supposed to be fun — so what happens when the logic of games, points and competition escapes the playground and starts reshaping e...
Censorship
A lawyer, artist and curator discuss different examples of censorship and self censorship in Radio 4's weekly discussion of ideas to kick of...
Biology, technology and the future
Adam Rutherford and guests discuss intelligence, genetics and the nature of reality. How are scientific advances in AI, cognitive science an...
Rethinking politics
If trust in politicians is broken and the political system isn't delivering, then how might we go about fixing things? Can we revive faith i...
The arts and health
What is the purpose of the Arts? Can music, literature and visual art change our lives physically and socially, as well as personally? Adam...
Animals and Meaning
What do animals mean to us? Naomi Alderman explores how animals shape human understanding, from ancient burial rites to modern science. The...
Poetry - reading, writing, editing and translating
How much can we truly know about the inner lives of others? Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Miles Leeson and Karen Leeder to reflect on the chall...
The Dark
Three visions of darkness as the days draw in. Adam Rutherford's guests for Radio 4's Monday discussion programme are a poet, a photographer...
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