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Living with Nature

The sounds of the Lofoten Islands

Glacial streams, the wind and the cry of ravens are familiar sounds of Lofoten islands

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Living with Nature

Sounds of the forest

What is the relationship between sound, the forest and the people in India?

26 mins

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After the Crash

After the Crash: Authority and Trust

How did the 2008 financial crisis affect our trust in authorities and experts?

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After the Crash

After the Crash: Austerity and Consequences

Did Governments’ handling of the 2008 financial crisis make things better or worse?

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After the Crash

After the Crash: Power Shift

How the 2008 financial crisis led to a shift in power from West to East

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After the Crash

After the Crash: Rethinking Economics

How should economists rethink their ideas to better spot financial dangers in the future?

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After the Crash

After the Crash: The Future

Ian Goldin examines how the 2008 financial crisis has changed the world

26 mins

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The Great Unravelling

The Great Unravelling: Human Rights

Is the world order that was forged after WW2 unravelling?

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The Great Unravelling

The Great Unravelling: War

Will new forms of war present even more of a challenge to the world order?

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The Great Unravelling

The Great Unravelling: Self Determination

What does the principle of self-determination mean in 2018?

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The Great Unravelling

The Great Unravelling: Trade and Trump

Could President Trump’s trade wars break the World Trade Organisation?

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The Great Unravelling

The Great Unravelling: Trade and China

Could China break the World Trade Organisation?

26 mins

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The Sun, Our Star

It's the source and sustainer of all life on Earth, but what do we really know about it?

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The Sun, Our Star

The Sun, Our Star: Energy

How much energy can we get from the Sun?

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The Sun, Our Star

The Sun, Our Star: Ancient sun

How the Sun’s light and heat inspired rituals dating back to the earliest humans

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The Sun, Our Star

The Sun, Our Star: Space Weather

What effect could solar winds have on life on Earth?

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The Sun, Our Star

The Sun, Our Star: Health and beauty

What does being deprived of sunlight do to you?

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Estonia's Digital Society

Is Estonia’s revolutionary digital policy a contender for a perfect country?

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Green Energy in Costa Rica

Could Costa Rica’s green energy policy work in our utopian dream?

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Drug Decriminalisation in Portugal

Is Portugal's view of drugs as a health issue rather than a crime a good model to follow?

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Preventing Suicide in Michigan, USA

Would Michigan's 'zero suicide model' be a policy for adoption in a perfect country?

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Sanitation for Women in India

Should India's pioneering policies on sanitation be adopted elsewhere?

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Legal Advice in Uganda

How a group of legal experts revolutionised Uganda's legal system through social media

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: The UN Debate

Fi Glover, Martha Lane Fox and a panel of guests discuss ground-breaking social policies

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Solving Water Scarcity in Bermuda

The island's roofs catch every drop of rain, purify water and store it for daily use

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Cutting Poverty in Peru

Peru has cut poverty by 50% in 10 years. Is it a model others could - or should - follow?

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Gun Control in Japan

How Japan's rigorous gun control policy has reduced gun violence to single digits

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: 'State Feminism' in Tunisia

Is Tunisia’s approach to what women can and can't do an example for other Arab countries?

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Shanghai's Model for Teaching Maths

Has Shanghai found the perfect formula for teaching maths?

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Curbing Smoking in Australia

Is Australia's anti-smoking policy a model for other countries to follow?

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: The Debate

Water, housing, gun control, women's rights and more are debated by a panel and listeners

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Rwanda

Rwanda has closed its gender gap by 80%. Is it a model other countries should follow?

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Cuba

Does Cuba hold the best policy for surviving hurricanes?

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Germany

Is the way Germany has handled refugee integration a model other countries could follow?

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Norway

How has Norway managed to have the lowest rate of prisoners reoffending in Europe?

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Nepal

How has Nepal dramatically reduced maternal death – and can their policy be replicated?

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Canada

Is Canada’s catch share model for sustainable fishing a contender for an imagined utopia?

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My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Which Policies will Work?

From closing the gender gap to sustainable fishing, which policy will be adopted?

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My Perfect Country

Making a Difference

Can Japan’s gun control policies, Norway’s prisoner scheme and Uganda’s law scheme work?

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The History of Wastefulness

The History of Wastefulness: Today’s Trash Challenge

How our relationship with rubbish has evolved over time

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The History of Wastefulness

The History of Wastefulness: Rubbish Through the Ages

Three historical landmarks that shaped modern attitudes to waste

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The History of Wastefulness

The History of Wastefulness: The Tipping Point

Could the future be rubbish-free?

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My Perfect City

The green city: San Francisco, USA

Is San Francisco’s recycling scheme and sustainable public transport a model to follow?

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My Perfect City

The smart city: Seoul, South Korea

How is data being used to help Seoul run smoothly?

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My Perfect City

The 24-hour city: London, UK

How the UK capital makes money around the clock

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My Perfect City

Participatory budgeting: Paris, France

In Paris citizens vote on how to spend the city’s budget. Is this a model to follow?

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My Perfect City

Knife crime: Glasgow, Scotland

How Glasgow, which has one of the highest murder rates in Europe, is tackling knife crime

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My Perfect City

Medellin, Colombia: Slums and urban regeneration

The visionary project that transformed the violent barrios of Colombia's second city

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Changing World, Changing Bodies

How modern life is changing our feet

What modern living is doing to our feet and why our trainers may not be the best for them

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Changing World, Changing Bodies

How modern life is changing our backs

How modern life has promoted back pain and why it is the number one cause of disability

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Changing World, Changing Bodies

How modern living is changing our faces

How our faces are evolving from jaws that are shorter to our teeth and eyes

26 mins

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Stories from the New Silk Road

Raha: The joy of the train

The new Chinese Mombasa–Nairobi railway has replaced the British-built Uganda Railway

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Stories from the New Silk Road

Kazakhstan: A port in the sand

Khorgas in Kazakhstan was the gateway of the ancient Silk Road. How is it transforming?

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Stories from the New Silk Road

Cambodia: New riches on the coast

How a new Silk Road connecting transport hubs from Kenya to Kazakhstan is changing lives.

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Stories from the New Silk Road

China: The start of the Silk Road

Lanzhou city on the Yellow River is benefiting from the Belt and Road Initiative

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Ground Shift: The Farming Revolution

Survival

Ground Shift talks to the next generation of farmers in Ghana, Australia and the USA

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Ground Shift: The Farming Revolution

Digital technology and rural communities

How digital and mobile phone technology is changing farming and boosting prosperity

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Ground Shift: The Farming Revolution

Scale and modern farming models

Ground Shift talks to the next generation of farmers in Ghana, Australia and the USA

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