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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

• 26 mins

Living with Nature

Sounds of the forest

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

• 26 mins

After the Crash

After the Crash: Authority and Trust

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

• 26 mins

After the Crash

After the Crash: Austerity and Consequences

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

• 26 mins

After the Crash

After the Crash: Power Shift

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

• 26 mins

After the Crash

After the Crash: Rethinking Economics

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

• 26 mins

After the Crash

After the Crash: The Future

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

• 26 mins

The Great Unravelling

The Great Unravelling: Human Rights

Is the world order that was forged after WW2 unravelling?

• 26 mins

The Great Unravelling

The Great Unravelling: War

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

• 26 mins

The Great Unravelling

The Great Unravelling: Self Determination

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

• 26 mins

The Great Unravelling

The Great Unravelling: Trade and Trump

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

• 26 mins

The Great Unravelling

The Great Unravelling: Trade and China

Could China break the World Trade Organisation?

• 26 mins

The Sun, Our Star

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

• 26 mins

The Sun, Our Star

The Sun, Our Star: Energy

How much energy can we get from the Sun?

• 26 mins

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

• 26 mins

The Sun, Our Star

The Sun, Our Star: Space Weather

What effect could solar winds have on life on Earth?

• 26 mins

The Sun, Our Star

The Sun, Our Star: Health and beauty

What does being deprived of sunlight do to you?

• 26 mins

My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Estonia's Digital Society

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

• 26 mins

My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Green Energy in Costa Rica

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

• 26 mins

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?

• 26 mins

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?

• 26 mins

My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Sanitation for Women in India

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

• 26 mins

My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Legal Advice in Uganda

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

• 26 mins

My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: The UN Debate

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

• 49 mins

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

• 26 mins

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?

• 26 mins

My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Gun Control in Japan

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

• 26 mins

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?

• 26 mins

My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Shanghai's Model for Teaching Maths

Has Shanghai found the perfect formula for teaching maths?

• 26 mins

My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Curbing Smoking in Australia

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

• 26 mins