Anjali Goswami

On humanity’s interconnectedness with the world, ‘selfish nihilism’, and a childhood encounter with a tiger

Lizzi Collinge MP

On millennials modernising parliament, living the one life we have, and the joys of being an MP

James Forder

On old fashioned liberalism, the finiteness of our existence, and free enterprise as a moral force

Kate Devlin

On human adaptability in an AI world, AI's ethical challenges, and our obsession with sex robots

Sarah Bakewell

On the joy of biography and what it means to be human

Ian Dunt

On the uncomfortable truth of liberalism, populism on the rise, and freedom to Vs freedom from

Jane Fallon

On her journey to veganism, a lifelong love for animals, and ‘Chick Noir’

Alf Dubs

On escaping the Nazis, memories of the NHS ‘the day it all began’, and xenophobia in 1940s UK

Adam Kay

On the values of the NHS, fundamental human equality, and the future of one of the UK’s most cherished institutions

Lynne Featherstone

On liberalism, being the chief architect of the same-sex marriage act, and her deep aversion to conformity

Alom Shaha

On becoming a humanist, the joy of teaching, and writing ’The Young Atheist’s Handbook’

Tommy Sheppard MP

On republicanism, the anti-nuclear campaign, and why he’s not a nationalist

Samira Ahmed

On the art of interviewing, equal pay at the BBC, and the ‘toxic’ nature of UK political discourse

Adam Rutherford

On tackling racist pseudoscience, ’Where are you really from?’, and Taylor Swift Vs Charles Darwin

Henry Marsh

On being a neurosurgeon, living with advanced prostate cancer, and the arguments for assisted dying

Sandi Toksvig

On bishops, Scandi convents, and masterminding a school rebellion

Susan Blackmore

From being open minded and then skeptical, to arguments leading you somewhere, and the self as the whole embodied person with no free will but happy and good

Laura Lacole

From one life, to being who you are, making a difference, and expressing yourself

Christer Sturmark

From the importance of being an activist, to our moral responsibility to learn and be coherent, and critical thinking to find the truth

Nichola Raihani

From cooperation and our social instincts, to moral trade-offs, and the cultural specifics of certain values

S I Martin

From history and common ownership, to history as a framework for great arguments and ongoing engagement, and exposure to as many diverse views and experiences as possible

Kate Pickett

From fairness as a moral value to the benefits to all of reducing inequality, hopefulness in the cause of social change, and taking the long view

Clive Lewis

From the necessity of politics to camaraderie of service, opposing imperialism and racism, universal humanity, and the climate threat

Tim McGarry

From devout atheism to accidental humanism, the values of education and comedy, and mutual respect and tolerance

A C Grayling

From curiosity and making sense of things to being a good guest at life's dinner party, our democratic deficit, the good state, and the interconnectedness of all these things

Angela Barnes

From occasional nostalgia to knowing where and who you are, making the most of the here and now, and putting everything out there

Frank Turner

From creativity to community, connection, empathy through art, nothing to excess, and 'know thyself'

Nigel Warburton

From clarity to being accessible, free speech, thinking aloud, thinking together, thinking on the page, and being free and open

Anne Glover

From curiosity, to the infinite possibilities of things you can't see, uncertainty, making knowledge useful, making a difference, and the vital importance of diversity to success

Saiful Islam

From beautiful crystals, to green energy, scientific progress, combating ignorance and fear, and the value of education

Francesca Stavrakopoulou

From justice for marginalised people from the past, to death rituals, identity in the long human story, and human exceptionalism

Mike Little

From democratic participation, to giving people a voice, an open source world, cooperation, and inspiration in utopianism

Angela Eagle

From opportunity for all, to contributing to a collective effort, remaking society, and being a pragmatic humanist

Steven Pinker

From understanding ourselves, to consciousness raising of what it means to be human, the continuous landscape of knowledge, progress, and rationality

John Amaechi

From leadership, to congruence, opportunity, words authentically delivered for social good, and human thriving and development

Shaparak Khorsandi

From living in exile and being an outsider, to hospitality, communication and creativity, connecting with others, equality of status, and appreciation of freedom

Eddie Marsan

From choosing your way, living with integrity, thinking like an immigrant, combatting dogmatism and supremacy, empowerment, making your own character, and opportunity for all

Polly Toynbee

From social justice, human frailty, political activism, persuasion, human imagination, and doing the best you can

Andrew Gold

From encounters with difference, enjoying people, understanding people, compromise, anti-dogmatism, and the nature of being human

Siân Berry

From abundance, optimism, improvement, the long view of human history, the spirit of inquiry, the distribution of power, and democracy and freedom

Isaac Hempstead Wright

From inquiry and truth, joy of finding things out, question after question, and how creativity and imagination are essential for science, and make-believe alike

Ian McEwan

From novels as a conversation through the generations, tolerance, empathy, freedom, pleasure, being each other, and enlarging our sympathies

Jim Al-Khalili

From lessons from quantum, science as a human enterprise, the values of the scientific approach, and amiable approaches to finding the truth

Helen Czerski

From finding out how the world works, acknowledgment of messiness, the perspective of a scientist, being moved by the currents, and all being in the same canoe

Richard Dawkins

From wanting to be understood, clarity, poetry, and being glad to change your mind

Carol Smillie

From collaborative environments, the diversity of human stories, taking on taboos and injustices, and building your own life story

David Aaronovitch

From the value of freedom of expression, an obsession with truth, a hatred of scapegoating, and giving up the Marxist-Leninist worldview he was raised in

Hannah Peel

From the meaning of music, its primal quality, music science and nature, music that binds us to place, music that connects us to people, being open, and the mystical aspect of artistic creation

Adèle Anderson

From music, beautiful cassocks, performance, opening yourself up to experiences, collaboration, and role models

José González

From doing what you can, the use of art in making arguments, and the importance of reducing suffering of all sentient animals

Stephanie Merritt

From freethinking, cultural interchange, cosmopolitanism and unity, to shared values, and the telling of stories

Christina Patterson

From suffering, human relationships, authenticity, breaking bad habits, perspective, to thinking about death and then living

Dan Snow

From the use of history to understand today, growing out of British exceptionalism, the spirit of reform, and being a work in progress

Joan Bakewell

From curiosity about the beliefs of others, the value of education, social justice, the value of age, giving up the idea of inevitable progress, and thinking about death

Natalie Haynes

From everyone’s right to be inspired by the ancient world, happiness through personal development, and personal development as a sort of respect for others

Leo Igwe

From humanism as an alternative, harm done to the vulnerable by religion in Nigeria, and our potential to change the world

David Baddiel

From complexity, the importance of stories, really really really knowing for absolute certain that there is no god, and being a Jew

Rebecca Goldstein

From the lust for truth to building an integrated worldview, and why every person matters

Paul Sinha

From the joy of facts to the power of family

Alice Roberts

From serendipity to the importance of stepping outside your species

Richard Wiseman

From skepticism to making your own luck to not forgiving yourself

Margaret Heffernan

From the fact of uncertainty to the importance of freedom of choice

Tim Minchin

From skepticism to the necessity of diplomatic good faith (not that sort of faith…)

Janet Ellis

From the role of chance to the joy of self-creation and human connections

Robin Ince

From finding delight in the disorder of the universe to accepting the absurdity of life