The Inquiry Podcast
The Inquiry gets beyond the headlines to explore the trends, forces and ideas shaping the world.
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Can We Teach Robots Ethics?
Thu 12 Oct 2017
From driverless cars to "carebots", machines are entering the realm of right and wrong.
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Could We Ban the Sale of Petrol and Diesel Cars Now?
Thu 28 Sep 2017
Can the electric car rule the road?
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Can China solve the North Korea problem?
Thu 21 Sep 2017
Can China persuade North Korea to step back from its nuclear ambitions?
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How Do We Stop People Dying in Floods?
Thu 14 Sep 2017
Do we have the power to avoid the natural forces of intense rainfall?
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What Can We Do With Our Dead?
Thu 7 Sep 2017
Cemeteries around the world are fast running out of space.
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How Has The Ku Klux Klan Lasted So Long?
Thu 31 Aug 2017
Why the US racist group the Ku Klux Klan continues to exist
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Are Video Games a Waste of Time?
Thu 24 Aug 2017
Gaming is replacing work for some young men in the US
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How Do You Fix Someone Else's Election?
Thu 17 Aug 2017
Smears, bots and bags of cash - stories of old tricks and new.
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Who Gets to Have Their Own Country?
Thu 3 Aug 2017
You might think simple rules decide the creation of nation states. You'd be wrong.
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What would war with North Korea look like?
Thu 27 Jul 2017
We reveal the conversations inside the war rooms
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Is it Time to Ban the Plastic Bottle?
Thu 20 Jul 2017
Every single second, 20,000 single-use drinking bottles are sold around the world
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Is Gene Editing Out of Control?
Thu 13 Jul 2017
The Inquiry looks into the unintended consequences of gene editing
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Have We Always Felt This Tired?
Thu 29 Jun 2017
The past, present and possible future story of human sleep
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Why Does China Want to Revive the Silk Road?
Thu 22 Jun 2017
The biggest infrastructure initiative of all time could change the current world order.
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Is the Greatest Threat to Putin Really Alexei Navalny?
Thu 15 Jun 2017
Assessing the strength of the opposition leader who has run mass protests in Russia
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How Do You Report Terrorism?
Thu 8 Jun 2017
Should the media devote less coverage to terrorist attacks?
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Is Work Too Easy?
Thu 1 Jun 2017
We used to work ourselves to an early death. Do we now sit ourselves to one instead?
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Does Poverty Change The Way We Think?
Thu 25 May 2017
Investigating the scientific claims that being poor affects how our brains work
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How Did Immigration Stop Being a Political Taboo in the UK?
Thu 18 May 2017
How did immigration stop being a political taboo in the UK?
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How Did Venezuela Go From So Rich To So Poor?
Thu 11 May 2017
Once the richest country in South America, Venezuela is now in deep economic crisis
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How did North Korea get the bomb?
Thu 4 May 2017
Exploring how the secretive state has acquired nuclear weapons
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Is Inequality About to Get Unimaginably Worse?
Thu 27 Apr 2017
A special edition with Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens and Homo Deus.
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How Powerful is Facebook's Algorithm?
Thu 20 Apr 2017
What does Facebook’s computer code do with the data we give it?
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What Happens When You Legalise Cannabis?
Thu 13 Apr 2017
Ruth Alexander looks at what happened next after legalising cannabis
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Why Is No-one Trying to Stop the War in Yemen?
Thu 6 Apr 2017
Thousands have been killed and the country is on the brink of famine
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Do We Need A Plan B For Climate Change?
Thu 30 Mar 2017
Scientists have been developing some very ambitious ideas to re-engineer our climate
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What’s Wrong With France?
Tue 21 Mar 2017
All the candidates in the French presidential election are calling for radical change
