18/02/2018
Mishal Husain with reports exploring why Britain's jails are failing and doorstep milk deliveries are rising. Plus Swansea's would-be lagoon and new and old divisions in Ireland.
Mishal Husain introduces a selection of new reports reflecting the zeitgeist of contemporary Britain.
Michael Buchanan, who's recently investigated the problems that have beset Liverpool jail, considers what's gone wrong with penal policy and how things might start to be put right.
Caroline Davies rises in the small hours to accompany milkman Ian on his rounds which are growing after the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's "Blue Planet 2" television series encouraged thousands of people to request doorstep milk deliveries in glass bottles to help tackle the problem of single use plastics. But will the trend last?
In the week that talks to restore devolved government in Northern Ireland stalled, Chris Page considers why old divisions are proving more intractable and explains why social and cultural changes underway could presage further differences.
Garry Owen walks along the curving shore of Swansea Bay to consider what its history has to say about the prospects for the world's first tidal lagoon power plant there.
And Christine Finn, employing today's technology, ponders how Kent's industrial heritage shapes its unique topography.
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