Summary: Andrew Marr explores Egypt's cosmopolitan past and the challenges it faces today with writer Tarek Osman, Francis Spufford imagines life in the Soviet Union under Krushchev and what could have happened if the dream of plenty had come true, Turkey's best-selling female novelist Elif Shafak argues against the pigeon-holing of multi-cultural writers, and astrophysicist Vicky Kaspi explains how neutron stars and pulsars can give us new insights into the universe.
