Positive & negative politics, "intellectual vices" and the face you bring to work.

Sir Richard Evans, Margaret Heffernan, Isabel Oakeshott, Quassim Cassam join Anne McElvoy

• 56 mins

Left and Right - still relevant in British and Global Politics?

Margaret MacMillan, David Aaronovitch, Phillip Blond and Gisela Stuart join Matthew Sweet

• 57 mins

The Insurrectionists' Guide to the Movies

Stephen Bush, Dr Sarah Jilani , Kate Maltby and Keith Shiri join Matthew Sweet

• 56 mins

Generations - D-Day - Global Instability

Eliza Filby, Rana Mitter, Jo Hamya, Tom Simpson, plus Gaby Hinsliff

• 56 mins

History - the long and short of it

Peter Frankopan, Alison Light, Bronwen Maddox & Zeinab Badawi join Matthew Sweet

• 56 mins

The illusion of time, the summer solstice & the philosophy of comedy

Mark Miodownik, Emily Herring, Rob Newman & Fay Dowker consider Time with Matthew Sweet

• 56 mins

Escapism

Matthew Sweet and guests question whether you can ever really escape

• 56 mins

Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship

Anne McElvoy with guests including David Runciman and Gisela Stuart

• 56 mins

Carl Schmitt, democracy and dictatorship

Anne McElvoy with guests including David Runciman and Gisela Stuart

• 56 mins

Crisis & Decision

Do we live in a time of crisis? Matthew Sweet gets to grips with the present moment

• 56 mins

The eternal dynamic of Rivalry, Fredric Jameson, the newly reopened Warburg Institute

Michael Crick, Helen Castor, David Edmonds, Kate Maltby and Roger Luckhurst

• 56 mins

Reading & Empathy

With Shahidha Bari and guests

• 56 mins

Childhood and innocence

Katherine Rundell, Emily Baughan, Grace Lockrobin, Miriam Cates, Andrew Cooper

• 56 mins

Insiders & Outsiders

Matthew Sweet and guests explore the secret languages of the internet and beyond

• 56 mins

Are we all American now?

3Short Freddy Gray, Dr Katie McGettigan, Amanda Taub, Kit Davis, Rana Mitter

• 56 mins

Ghosts, death and ecstatic states

Shahidha Bari with Irving Finkel, Simon Critchley, Chris Harding & Hetta Howes

• 57 mins

Milton and our modern world

It's 350 years since the death of Milton - we discuss ideas of Puritanism and divorce

• 56 mins

Cosy comfort reading or Nietzsche?

Alexander McCall Smith, Susannah Clapp, Tom Shakespeare, Deborah Sugg Ryan & Hugo Drochon

• 56 mins