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Nita Farahany
Can Neurotechnology Already Read Our Minds? · May 2023

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Russell Brand
It's Time to End The War on Drugs · Aug 2014

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Dominic Sandbrook

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Ellen Barry

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Michael Barbaro
The Daily: The Rise of Nationalism Across the Globe · Jun 2019

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Nicholas Cullinan

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Stephen J. Dubner

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Dambisa Moyo
Business Weekly: How To Reconstruct The Economy After Covid · Dec 2021

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David Chalmers
Is This Reality? VR, AI, and the Mystery of Consciousness - Part 1 · Jun 2023

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David Miliband
Ten Years After 9/11: The World Remade · Sep 2015

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Gary Taubes

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Shadi Hamid
Debate: Is America a force for good in the world? Part 2 · Nov 2022

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Stephen Marche
ChatGPT: The Death and Rebirth of Writing · Dec 2022

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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A A Gill
Classic Debate: There is Nothing Wrong With Rearing and Killing Animals for Human Consumption · Mar 2025

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AC Grayling
Money Can't Buy Happiness · Aug 2014

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Andrew Motion

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Ania Magliano
Debate: Succession VS The White Lotus · Jul 2023

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Ann Widdecombe

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Anthony Horowitz
Classic Debate: Ian Fleming vs John le Carré · Apr 2025

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Antony Gormley

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Camila Batmanghelidjh

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Clare Short

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Clive James

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Clive Myrie
The War in Ukraine: How Does it End? - Part 2 · 2 episodes

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David Lammy

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Fiona Shaw

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George Carey

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Germaine Greer
The Sunday Debate: Pornography is Good For Us · Feb 2023

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Helen Fielding
How Jane Austen Changed My Life · Nov 2023

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Helena Kennedy

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Howard Jacobson
The Sunday Debate: Hip-hop vs Shakespeare · Jul 2022

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Hugh Johnson

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Jack Straw

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John Tomlinson

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Ken Livingstone

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Michel Roux Jr

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Paddy Ashdown
The West Has Failed Syria · Dec 2013

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Richard Ayoade

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Steven Isserlis
Bach vs Beethoven - Part 1 · Jun 2023

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