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Squatters are scum

13 Aug 2010
Toy Story 3 is sexist

06 Aug 2010
Good riddance to speed cameras

06 Aug 2010
It’s OK to drown squirrels

30 Jul 2010
Food Revolution? Forget it. Jamie Oliver is a class traitor

16 Jul 2010
Scandinavia is social Nirvana. Redistribution is the key to it

16 Jul 2010
Football needs new rules

23 Jun 2010
Fashion is bad for us

14 Jun 2010
Romanticism destroyed nature

17 May 2010
Football is beautiful

22 Apr 2010
Tolerance should be granted to homophobes...as well as homosexuals

09 Apr 2010

Comments: 1
Torture can never be justified

08 Apr 2010
Legalise highs

01 Apr 2010
Organic food is marketing hype

10 Mar 2010
The deliberate bombing of civilians can never be justified

09 Mar 2010
Airports should use racial and religious profiling

08 Jan 2010

Comments: 6
It's time to legalise drugs

07 Jan 2010
Amanda Knox should never have been convicted

15 Dec 2009

Comments: 3
All is not fair in sport and war

27 Nov 2009
The Catholic Church is a force for good

22 Oct 2009
Democracy is not for everyone

22 Oct 2009

Live debates

Should hunting with hounds be banned?

Filmed: 19 Sep 2002

1 hr 42 min
You don't need a good education to lead the good life

Filmed: 04 Jul 2010

1 hr 29 min
This House would rescind the UK invitation to the Pope

Filmed: 05 Jun 2010

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Edward Tufte: Beautiful Evidence

Filmed: 19 May 2010

1 hr 20 min
David Eagleman in conversation with Will Self

Filmed: 25 Mar 2010

1 hr 16 min
Islam is incompatible with democracy

Filmed: 18 May 2004

1 hr 48 min
Monogamy is bad for the soul

Filmed: 23 Nov 2004

1 hr 45 min
A pre-emptive foreign policy is a recipe for disaster

Filmed: 13 Sep 2004

1 hr 43 min
We are all feminists now

Filmed: 09 May 2006

1 hr 39 min
Long live Tesco

Filmed: 12 Sep 2006

1 hr 36 min
Enough money has been spent saving Venice

Filmed: 12 Jun 2006

1 hr 27min
Let's legalise cocaine

Filmed: 14 Nov 2006

1 hr 44 min
Everything a man does he does to get laid

Filmed: 10 Dec 2009

1 hr 40 min
Atheism is the new fundamentalism

Filmed: 29 Nov 2009

1 hr 39 min
The Catholic Church is a force for good in the world

Filmed: 19 Oct 2009

1 hr 58 min
An evening with Bernard-Henri Lévy

Filmed: 02 Dec 2008

1 hr 34 min
George Steiner on The Poetry of Thought

Filmed: 16 Apr 2009

23 min 49 sec
Psychotherapy has done more harm than good

Filmed: 17 Jun 2009

1 hr 23 min
Happiness lies in making do with less

Filmed: 09 Jun 2009

1 hr 7 min
It's wrong to pay for sex

Filmed: 11 Nov 2008

1 hr 48 min
Democracy isn't for everyone

Filmed: 23 May 2007

1 hr 40 min
Freedom of expression must include the licence to offend

Filmed: 07 Jun 2006

1 hr 51 min
We'd be better off without religion

Filmed: 27 Mar 2007

1hr 58 min

Talks

Slavoj Žižek - First as tragedy, then as farce

Filmed: 28 Jul 2010

10 min 57 sec
Oliver James on Envy

Filmed: 29 Nov 2009

37 min 53 sec
David Eagleman on Uncertainty

Filmed: 2010

44 min 7 sec
Alain de Botton on Pessimism

Filmed: 22 Mar 2009

38 min 53 sec
Barbara Ehrenreich on Optimism

Filmed: 10 Jan 2010

34 min 7 sec
Democracy's Illusion - After Dinner Speech

Filmed: 19 Jun 2010

17 min 1 sec
Democracy - Race and Religion

Filmed: 19 Jun 2010

1 hr 38 min
Professor Philip Zimbardo on The Secret Powers of Time

Filmed: May 2010

10 min 9 sec
Louise Stern on her extraordinary, adventurous and deaf family, at 5x15

Filmed: 14 Jun 2010

13 min 46 sec
Susan Neiman on Moral Clarity

Filmed: May 2009

1 hr 22 min
Marcus du Sautoy in conversation with Robert Peston

Filmed: 12 Sep 2009

35 min 10 sec
Bonnie Greer in conversation with Marcus du Sautoy

Filmed: 12 Sep 2009

26 min 22 sec
Nicholas Christakis on the power of social networks

Filmed: 25 Feb 2010

43 min 32 sec
John Kay on Obliquity: the most successful route

Filmed: 24 Mar 2010

52 min 46 sec
Aminatta Forna on the renaissance that never happened, at 5x15

Filmed: 19 Apr 2010

16 min 51 sec
Lewis Wolpert in conversation with Charles Arsène-Henry

Filmed: 12 Sep 2009

35 min 25 sec
Ruth Padel in conversation with Lewis Wolpert

Filmed: 12 Sep 2009

35 min 37 sec
Cory Doctorow in conversation with Ruth Padel

Filmed: 12 Sep 2009

35 min 37 sec
Mark Miodownik in conversation with Cory Doctorow

Filmed: 12 Sep 2009

35 min 34 sec
Jeanette Winterson in conversation with Susie Orbach

Filmed: 12 Sep 2009

37 min 50 sec
Deborah Moggach on her mother's time in prison, at 5x15

Filmed: 15 Mar 2010

15 min 16 sec
Clay Christensen on healthcare and education

Filmed: Oct 2007

34 min 48 sec
Flemming Rose on free speech in a globalised world, at 5x15

Filmed: 22 Feb 2010

13 min 33 sec
Leon Lederman on Science Education

Filmed: 14 Oct 2009

58 min 27 sec
Hanna Holborn Gray on Utopia in universities

Filmed: Feb 2010

59 min 1 sec
Ian Goldin on Humanity at the Crossroads

Filmed: 30 Oct 2009

59 min 46 sec
Questions: The Dalai Lama on 'Educating the Heart'

Filmed: 30 Apr 2009

26 min 38 sec
The Dalai Lama on 'Educating the Heart'

Filmed: 30 Apr 2009

41 min 23 sec
Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Society

Filmed: 11 Dec 2009

36 min 33 sec
Christopher Hitchens – The morals of an atheist

Filmed: 23 Aug 2007

20 min 53 sec
Insights with René Girard

Filmed: 01 Dec 2009

36 min 33 sec
Soft Despotism with Paul Rahe

Filmed: 19 Nov 2009

39 min 13 sec
Phillip Tobias on Charles Darwin, genetics, and Apartheid

Filmed: Dec 2009

48 min 59 sec
Jack Klaff on missing links and understanding science, at 5x15

Filmed: 18 Jan 2009

17 min 40 sec
Lessons from financial crises

Filmed: 11 Dec 2009

1 hr 15 min
Rethinking privacy in an age of disclosure and sharing

Filmed: 31 Oct 2009

1 hr 30 min
Rethinking freedom in an illiberal age

Filmed: 31 Oct 2009

1 hr 32 min
Should physician-assisted dying be legalised?

Filmed: 31 Oct 2009

1 hr 7 min
Niall Ferguson on The Ascent of Money

Filmed: 04 Nov 2008

18 min 43 sec
Martin Amis in conversation with Christopher Hitchens

Filmed: 01 Feb 2007

1 hr 19 min
Robert Shiller on psychology and economy

Filmed: 21 May 2009

26 min 22 sec
Richard Dawkins on evolution and creationism

Filmed: 08 Nov 2008

5 min 17 sec
Peter Singer on global challenges and values

Filmed: 30 Mar 2009

23 min 23 sec
Karen Armstrong on the reason for interfaith

Filmed: 17 Jun 2009

29 min 25 sec
Amitai Etzioni on the value of community

Filmed: 14 Jul 2009

30 min 52 sec
Sarah Blaffer Hrdy on evolutionary empathy

Filmed: 16 Jul 2009

30 min 30 sec
Alan Johnson on public health policy

Filmed: 19 Mar 2009

30 min 31 sec
Alain de Botton on 'The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work'

Filmed: 09 Apr 2009

23 min 17 sec
James Martin on the 21st Century School

Filmed: 12 Mar 2008

1 hr 9 min
Susie Orbach on body image and the fashion industry

Filmed: May 2009

3 min 54 sec
Simon Blackburn on Hume, atheism and science vs religion

Filmed: May 2009

4 min 46 sec
Rev Dr John Polkinghorne on human conciousness

Filmed: May 2009

4 min 40 sec
Kevin McCloud on the design process and sustainability

Filmed: May 2009

7 min 36 sec
Archbishop Rowan Williams on the role of religion

Filmed: May 2009

9 min 16 sec

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