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Wealth
Can the accumulation of wealth be ethical and what can we learn from Adam Smith's work?

Free Thinking at the Hay Festival: Responsibility
Baroness Hale, Philippa Perry, Guto Harri and Simon Critchley join Shahidha Bari at Hay

Thinking with Food
Felicity Cloake, John Lanchester, Prof Barry Smith, Suki Finn and Samantha Ellis

Technologies of the Self
From journaling to prayer: Shahidha Bari on the history and politics of self creation

The Middle
Middle - England, ground, child, age, pig in ... Anne McElvoy hosts a middling discussion

Weapons, real and symbolic
Matthew Sweet and guests discuss tanks, guns, gaming, drones and what weaponisation means

Weapons, real and symbolic
Matthew Sweet and guests explore what weapons mean - in the past and now.

Purity
David Aaronovitch, Catherine Coldstream, Linda Woodhead and others join Matthew Sweet

Humility
From Spinoza's thinking to the "humble brag" - Matthew Sweet and guests explore humility.

Oral tradition and oracy
Anne McElvoy and guests discuss look at fluently in politics, the classroom & society