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The Forum Clips

1. Writer NoViolet Bulawayo: Moving from Zimbabwe to US changed me (Photo Credit: Smeeta Hamanti)

   Duration: 00:37

2. What happens to the bumblebees that pollinated the tomato you are eating?

   Duration: 00:56

3. Barbara Kingsolver reads a short extract from her novel Flight Behaviour

   Duration: 00:51

4. Writer Qais Akbar Omar: How stories helped me survive a civil war

   Duration: 00:44

5. Artist Galya Morrell: My close encounter with silence

   Duration: 01:08

6. Writer Aminatta Forna: Are we good as we think we are? Photo by Burt Hardy / Getty

   Duration: 00:38

7. Fungal ecologist Lynne Boddy on how fungi fight each other for resources

   Duration: 01:52

8. Evgeny Morozov on why ‘smart’ forks may not be so smart.

   Duration: 00:38

9. Plastic-eating bugs: 60 second idea to change the world from Susan Blackmore

   Duration: 01:05

10. Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze performs her celebrated poem ‘Simple Tings’

    Duration: 01:22

11. Statistician Hans Rosling: Costs of ageing rising?

    Duration: 00:34

12. Philosopher Alain de Botton on good, cultural propaganda

    Duration: 00:55

13. Encountering icebergs for the first time

    Duration: 01:08

14. Polymath Jared Diamond on the importance of Constructive Paranoia (Photo: Getty Images)

    Duration: 01:39

15. Lars Chittka on why some orchids deliberately misguide bees. Photo: SPL

    Duration: 00:51

16. Jerry Brotton on why we make maps

    Duration: 00:47

17. Van Gogh and Epilepsy

    Duration: 01:25

18. Michael Ignatieff on Chimpanzee Politics

    Duration: 01:28

19. Thomas Keneally on why guilt can easily turn into narcissism.

    Duration: 01:25

20. The intimate relationship between supermassive black holes and galaxies

    Duration: 00:54

21. Psychologist John Prescott on why rats show the same facial reactions to sweet and bitter taste as humans

    Duration: 00:54