Jeremy Bowen, John Harris
The frontline correspondent discusses the nature of his work, humanely and mesmerically examined in War Stories, from El Salvador and Lebanon to Afghanistan, Rwanda and the Middle East.
Paddy Ashdown
The Liberal peer discusses peacekeeping in the Balkans and Iraq.
Timothy Phillips and Åsne Seierstad
330 parents and children died in the siege, which ended in a terrible gun battle on 3 September 2004. The author of The Tragedy of School No.1 discusses the human story and its wider context in the Caucasus with the Norwegian foreign correspondent.
Chaired by Julie Etchingham who covered the news story for Sky News.
Baaba Maal
The Senegalese musician and UN emissary talks about the medical, social and educational challenges facing Africa in the new millennium.
Wangari Mathai, Rosie Boycott
The heroic and inspiring Kenyan Nobel Peace Laureate and founder of the African development Green Belt Movement talks about her life and work. Chaired by Rosie Boycott.
Jay Griffiths
The adventurer encounters cannibals, polar bears, Amazonian healers and sea gypsies in her extraordinary odyssey around geographical and mental wildernesses.
Roger Riddell
An examination of the $100bn governmental, NGO and emergency aid spending, and how to make it work better.
Jeremy Swift and Robin Hanbury Tenison
The travel writers and Saharan experts discuss the ways of life endangered by modernity.
Chaired by Colin Thubron.
Colin Thubron
The travel-writer passes through China, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey, taking in the most sterile desert on earth and the strife-torn mountain valleys of today’s conflicts. ‘To be travelling the Silk Road is to be travelling the history of the world: tracing the passage not just of trade and armies, but of ideas, religions and inventions.’
Mark Tully
A fascinating, deeply personal account of the impact the Subcontinent has had on the life and beliefs of the broadcaster.
Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely
The 2006 Nobel Laureate, talks to his translator about his work My Name is Red, Snow and Istanbul: Memories and the City.
John Julius Norwich
The history, culture, heroes and wonders of the Mediterranean world
Hugh Kennedy
How, within a generation, Arab armies had overrun Persian and Byzantine civilizations and created an empire that reached from Spain to China
Sioned Davies
We celebrate the new translation into English of the greatest Welsh literary work.
Chaired by Revel Guest.
Antonia Fraser
The historian examines the women in the life of the Sun King.
Kiran Desai, Steve Davies, Claire Armistead
The Indian Novelist discusses her 2006 Man Booker-winning novel The Inheritance of Loss Davies introduces her beautiful and politically passionate The Eyrie. They talk to the Guardian's Literary Editor.