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Camilla Cavendish

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Carl Erik Fisher
Chasing the Urge – Addiction Throughout History · 2 episodes

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Carl Miller
COP26: What is Ecocide? · Nov 2021

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Carl Öhman
Who Owns Our Digital Afterlives? With Carl Öhman · Apr 2025

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Caroline Burt
Six Kings and the Making of the English State, with Caroline Burt and Richard Partington · Mar 2025

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Caroline Criado Perez

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Searching for Another England, with Caroline Lucas and Grace Blakeley, Part Two · 2 episodes

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Catherine Belton
Can Trump Deliver Peace in Ukraine? With Catherine Belton · 4 episodes

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Catherine Carr
How Do Our Sibling Relationships Shape Us? With Catherine Carr · Aug 2026

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Catherine Ostler
Who Are Renoir’s Mystery Girls? With Catherine Ostler · Apr 2026

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Catherine Philp

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Chad Bown

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Charlotte Blease
Could AI Help Save Lives? With Dr Charlotte Blease · Sep 2025

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Charlotte Higgins
Is Ukraine’s Culture Worth Fighting For? With Charlotte Higgins · 2 episodes

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Charlotte Lydia Riley

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Charlotte Proudman
Is Our Justice System Failing Women? With Barrister Charlotte Proudman · Jul 2026

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Chris Addison

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Chris Haughton
The History of Information, with Chris Haughton · Oct 2024

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Chris Hirst
Chris Hirst and Helen Lewis on No Bullsh*t Leadership · Aug 2019

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Chris Horton
How will Taiwan shape Asia’s future? With Chris Horton · Jul 2025

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Chris Wylie
Chris Wylie on Whistleblowing the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal · Dec 2019

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Christophe Galfard

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Clover Hogan
How to Lead a Sustainable Business with Clover Hogan and Alannah Weston · Sep 2020

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Courtney Kremers
The Specialist | From Canvas to Canon: Joan Mitchell’s King of Spades, with Courtney Kremers · Mar 2026

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Céline Broeckaert

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D. Graham Burnett

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Daisy Dunn
The Women Who Shaped the Ancient World, with Daisy Dunn · Aug 2024

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Damian Bradfield
Business Weekly: Damian Bradfield, Co-founder of WeTransfer · Jan 2022

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Dan Gretton
The 'Desk Killers' of History, with Dan Gretton and Ros Urwin · Jan 2020

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Dan Hancox
How Crowd Psychology Made the Modern World, with Dan Hancox · Nov 2024

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Dan Saladino

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Danh Vo
Danh Vo: Traces of History and The End of Empire · Nov 2020

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Daniel Lavelle

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Daniel Trilling
Has Far-Right Politics Entered The Mainstream in the UK? With Daniel Trilling · May 2026

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Danielle Sands

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Danny Dorling
The Great Slowdown and Why It's Good, with Danny Dorling and Linda Yueh · May 2020

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Daphna Joel
The Gendered Brain Myth, with Daphna Joel and Rosamund Urwin · Oct 2019

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Darren Clarke

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David Aaronovitch
"Let The Bad Guys Be: The Perils of Foreign Intervention" with David Aaronovitch and Rory Stewart · 2 episodes

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David Galperin
The Specialist | The Multi-Million Dollar Banana, with David Galperin · Sep 2025

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