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Programme examining the ideas and forces which shape public policy in Britain and abroad, presented by distinguished writers, journalists and academics.

Updated: weekly
Episodes available: indefinitely

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    Planning for the Worst

    Mon 5 Oct 2020

    How ready are we for the next pandemic, cyber attack, volcanic eruption, or solar storm?

  • Is the Internet Broken?

    Mon 28 Sep 2020

    Is the infrastructure of the internet up to scratch?

  • Behavioural Science and the Pandemic

    Mon 20 Jul 2020

    Behavioural fatigue: what is it, where did it come from, and what鈥檚 the link with Nudge?

  • Humans vs the Planet

    Mon 13 Jul 2020

    What the 鈥榳e are the virus鈥� meme tells us about green politics.

  • Thinking for the Long Term

    Mon 6 Jul 2020

    How critical is the ability to think and plan for the long term?

  • The Post-Pandemic State

    Mon 29 Jun 2020

    What should government priorities be now that it has such a dominant role in the economy?

  • Radical Self-Care

    Mon 22 Jun 2020

    What do we get wrong about self-care?

  • Modern Parenting

    Mon 15 Jun 2020

    More time and money is being spent on children than ever before. Why?

  • The Smack of Firm Leadership

    Mon 8 Jun 2020

    Which leaders will emerge stronger from the global pandemic - authoritarians or democrats?

  • The Return of Reality?

    Mon 1 Jun 2020

    What might the pandemic do for our sense of shared reality?

  • Identity Wars: lessons from the Dreyfus Affair and Brexit Britain

    Mon 25 May 2020

    Can divided societies heal? Lessons from the Dreyfus Affair, which split France in two.

  • The Roots of 'Woke' Culture

    Mon 23 Mar 2020

    Journalist Helen Lewis uncovers the roots of 'woke' culture.

  • Command and Control?

    Mon 16 Mar 2020

    What would be different if 10 Downing Street rather than the Treasury ran economic policy?

  • Unequal England

    Mon 9 Mar 2020

    Paul Johnson explores what the world of work tells us about inequality in England.

  • China's Captured "Princess"

    Mon 2 Mar 2020

    How the furore over a single arrest demonstrates China's rising power.

  • It's Not Easy Being Green

    Mon 24 Feb 2020

    Why aren't The Greens more popular?

  • Do voters need therapy?

    Mon 17 Feb 2020

    James Tilley asks to what extent our politics is now steeped in cognitive distortion?

  • The Early Years Miracle?

    Mon 10 Feb 2020

    The government spends billions on early years education - but what good is it doing?

  • The NHS, AI and Our Data

    Mon 3 Feb 2020

    Will a combination of data and artificial intelligence transform the future of the NHS?

  • Get woke or go broke?

    Mon 27 Jan 2020

    Are businesses serious about getting woke or is it old capitalism with new lipstick on?

  • NATO at 70

    Mon 18 Nov 2019

    NATO won the first Cold War, but could it lose the second?

  • The uses and misuses of history in politics

    Mon 11 Nov 2019

    How well do our politicians understand British history?

  • Can I Change Your Mind?

    Mon 4 Nov 2019

    Margaret Heffernan challenges a view that polarisation means we do not change our minds.

  • State Aid: Brexit, Bailouts and Corporate Bonanzas

    Mon 28 Oct 2019

    Do the EU's state aid rules hold the UK back from having a more active industrial policy?

  • The New Censorship

    Mon 21 Oct 2019

    How censorship works in our information age.

  • A question of artefacts

    Mon 14 Oct 2019

    How should museums deal with contentious legacies?

  • The Problem with Boys

    Mon 7 Oct 2019

    The reverse gender gap: why boys are failing at school and what can be done about it.

  • Whiteness

    Mon 30 Sep 2019

    Do white people need to think more about their race?

  • A shorter working week

    Mon 22 Jul 2019

    What happened to the dream of working less? Sonia Sodha investigates the four-day week.

  • Going the way of the dodo? The decline of Britain's two main parties.

    Mon 15 Jul 2019

    Are Britain's two main political parties now in terminal decline?

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