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Chief Economics Commentator for the FT Martin Wolf, Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits and Head of Research at Theos, Madeleine Pennington, debate whether the 21st century will prove to be unique. Hilary Lawson hosts.

Slavoj Žižek discusses the various components of his philosophy in conversation with novelist Joanna Kavenna.

Ground breaking philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist Dr Isabel Millar discusses her work in challenging assumptions around AI by deploying the tools of psychoanalysis to the study of AI.

Rowan Williams and Iain McGilchrist discuss the layered and inter-connected nature of reality from their perspectives.

Simon Blackburn on the dangers of self-love.

Anthropologist and Harvard University Professor Richard Wrangham, renowened philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Žižek, University of Hertfordshire professor Maria Balaska and the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams join Myriam François to discuss the nature of good and evil.

Rupert Sheldrake, Suchitra Sebastian, and Tommy Curry challenge our views about knowledge.

Iain McGilchrist gives Hilary Lawson an exclusive interview on the nature of truth and the cosmos, and the danger of delusional thinking.

Nolen Gertz, Betty Sue Flowers, and Joscha Bach debate language and reality.

Radical scientist, Rupert Sheldrake, and world-leading sceptic, Michael Shermer, go head-to-head on where the edges of knowledge lie.

Rebecca Roache, Simon Baron-Cohen, and Hilary Lawson join Samira Shackle to scrutinize honesty and deception.