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- The wreck detectives
- The Swiss children beaten and forced to work
- The First Spacewalk
- Otto and us - how a man, woman and car fell in love
- The Uncatchable
- China's Island Factory
- When time stood still
- The 90-year-old sex guru
- The Reykjavik Confessions
- A good man in Rwanda
- The faceless men
- The sanitary pad revolutionary
- Arms wide open
- 'I played basketball for Gaddafi'
- Digging for their lives: Russia's body hunters
- Island at the end of the earth
- Michael Adebolajo: A journey towards violence
- The secret double life of a gay neo-Nazi
- A world without shops or factories
- My mother the Amazonian tribeswoman
- What was behind the Bristol bus boycott?
- Swimming back to life
- The incurable illness in the valley dust
- How Israel keeps Holocaust memories alive
- The story of how the tin can nearly wasn't
- Marwa's story: 10 years since the bomb fell
- When Ian Fleming picked my grandfather to steal Nazi secrets
- The ex-POW teaching Vietnam to swim
- How a good police officer went rogue
- Hillary Clinton's long journey
- Did Operation Ore change British society?
- Mitt Romney's English Mormon roots
- The Cold War rival to Eurovision
- Thankful villages where everyone came back from the wars
- Inside story of the UK's secret mission to beat Gaddafi
- A forgotten hero of World War II
- Charles Tegart and the forts that tower over Israel
- The 73 minutes that changed my life
- On the trail of Orwell’s outcasts
- In Steinbeck's footsteps across US
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- The story of the Queen's Christmas speech (David Cannadine)
- How do we know real art when we see it? (Roger Scruton)
- The strangely enduring power of kitsch (RS)
- Has modern art exhausted its power to shock? (RS)
- The writer who foresaw the rise of the totalitarian state (John Gray)
- Are we really interested in saving time? (JG)
- Why capitalism hasn't triumphed (JG)
- Four types of anxiety and their cures (Adam Gopnik)
- Should love be symbolised by a lock? (AG)
- Why are our obsessions never the things we're best at? (AG)
- How do we give dignity to the dying? (AG)
- Why short men make better husbands (AG)
- How the world's first smartwatch was built (Lisa Jardine)
- The power of a red dress (LJ)
- The long shadows of war (LJ)
- When historical fiction is more truthful than fact (LJ)
- Why Orwell was a literary mediocrity (Will Self)
- That joke isn't funny any more (WS)
- Why not caring about anything is only for the young (WS)
- Where is our utopia? (WS)
- What does it mean to be a modern patriot? (WS)
- The child-like faith in reason (John Gray)
- A thoroughly modern caliphate (JG)
- To see yourself as others do (AL Kennedy)
- Is it time for the gossip to stop? (ALK)
- Silence in the library (ALK)
- Taking England back to the Dark Ages (Tom Shakespeare)
- Why is it so often assumed people with disabilities are unhappy? (TS)
- Religious but not spiritual (TS)
- The paradox of growing old (Mary Beard)
- Are archaeological digs a thing of the past? (MB)
- How running has changed since the four-minute mile (MB)
- Casting the vote in India and Afghanistan (William Dalrymple)
- The sacred and sensuous in Indian art (WD)
- A disease called fame (Sarah Dunant)
- Here comes the flood (SD)
- The strange time warp of the 1970s (SD)
- The case for not leaving education to the teachers (Roger Scruton)
- Loving pets v loving animals (RS)
- Should the English have a say on Scottish independence? (RS)
- Why I don't tweet (Adam Gopnik)
- Good sport, bad sport (AG)
- The driverless car (AG)
- Sex and the French (AG)
- See no evil (John Gray)
- The perils of belief (JG)
- Two cheers for human rights (JG)
- A long winter for the Middle East's Christians (William Dalrymple)
- Why Charles Dickens endures (JG)
- Why we banish the words of the dead (Will Self)
- The Trojan horse (WS)
- Rebuilding after 9/11 (WS)
- JFK and the rise of conspiracy theories (WS)
- Should the baby boomers leave the stage? (WS)
- IVF and the marketing of hope (Lisa Jardine)
- Will machines ever be able to think? (LJ)
- Whose science is it anyway? (LJ)
- The man who dreamed of the atom bomb (LJ)
- Putting a price on love (AL Kennedy)
- Why people give in to temptation when no-one's watching (ALK)
- Why people sometimes prefer lies to the truth (ALK)
- Why embracing change is the key to happiness (ALK)
- Should countries be more like families? (Roger Scruton)
- Democracy and Islamic law (RS)
- Why it can be good to give in to enemies (RS)
- Is democracy overrated? (RS)
- Why getting sacked was good for Machiavelli (Sarah Dunant)
- Bert, Ernie and gay marriage (SD)
- Sporting spectacle on the piazza (SD)
- The long march of everywoman (SD)
- Anyone for art? (Tom Shakespeare)
- Solstice and the lack of symbolism in Britain (TS)
- Fly, Fish, Mouse and Worm (TS)
- How important is compassion in healthcare? (TS)
- Gatsby and the way we live now (John Gray)
- The doors of perception (JG)
- Tom Ripley and a talent for evil (JG)
- Leaving Gormenghast (JG)
- Ghosts in the material world (JG)
- Bitcoin's promise of freedom (JG)
- The pain when children fly the nest (Adam Gopnik)
- How different is science from magic? (AG)
- The foibles of four countries (AG)
- What's the secret to a happy marriage? (AG)
- Chess and 18th Century artificial intelligence (AG)
- Crowd-sourcing comets (Lisa Jardine)
- Mary queen of maths (LJ)
- The art of collecting (LJ)
- The winter queen (LJ)
- Why does everyone hate Birmingham? (David Cannadine)
- The world's loveliest train station (DC)
- The bear truth (DC)
- Roll up for the inauguration (DC)
- Staring at the Shard (Will Self)
- The biggest decision (WS)
- A bizarre view of Americans (WS)
- The British vomitorium (WS)
- And all shall worship money... (WS)
- Nostalgia - it's not like it used to be (WS)
- Which comes first - trust or trustworthiness? (Onora O'Neill)
- When students answer back (Mary Beard)
- Pompeii's not-so-ancient Roman remains (MB)
- Why rules aren't pick-and-mix (MB)
- Why the rich look down on the poor (MB)
- Is China more democratic than the West? (Martin Jacques)
- How China sees a multicultural world (MJ)
- What kind of superpower could China be? (MJ)
- Making sense of China (MJ)
- What is history's role in society? (Sarah Dunant)
- The strange allure of teeth (SD)
- Charity shop blues (SD)
- And prizes for all (SD)
- Does the sex debate exclude men? (SD)
- JG Ballard and the alchemy of memory (John Gray)
- Does democracy always equal freedom? (JG)
- The enduring appeal of Sherlock Holmes (JG)
- Are tyrants good for art? (JG)
- Why sales of stamps flourish in tough times (JG)
- Would you want to live forever? (JG)
- What would Keynes do? (JG)
- A time when violence is normal (JG)
- The curse of a ridiculous name (Adam Gopnik)
- Don’t mention the war? (AG)
- How to get your own back on your critics (AG)
- Why are the Beatles still so popular? (AG)
- Teenagers and embarrassing parents (AG)
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