The Cold War Legacy

The Cold War Legacy: Czechoslovakia

What do new generations of Czechs feel about the future as well as the communist past?

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The Cold War Legacy

The Cold War Legacy: Brazil

Jair Bolsonaro has vowed to wipe the reds off the map. Is Brazil reliving the Cold War?

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The Cold War Legacy

The Cold War Legacy: Indonesia

In 1965, some half a million people died in military-led killings of suspected communists

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The Cold War Legacy

The Cold War Legacy: India

How is India navigating international relations today?

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The Cold War Legacy

The Cold War Legacy: Angola

What will it take for Angola to be truly free of the legacy of Africa’s Cold War?

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The Kids are Alright

The Kids are Alright: Environment

How Stella Bowles' school project and persistence led to a clean-up of her local river

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The Kids are Alright

The Kids are Alright: Opportunity

The 18-year-old student who built a school and a 15-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur

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The Kids are Alright

The Kids are Alright: Tackling violence

Teenagers inspired to try and make a difference in the world around them.

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My Perfect Country - Making a Difference

Fi Glover works with students at Massachusetts University on solutions to global problems

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Chinese Dreams

Chinese Dreams: The preview

As China grows richer and more powerful, how is its impact felt around the world?

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Chinese Dreams

Chinese Dreams: Australia

Is China interfering in Australian politics?

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Chinese Dreams

Chinese Dreams: Indonesia

Will China's rise help Chinese-Indonesians or encourage more discrimination and envy?

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Chinese Dreams

Chinese Dreams: Canada

The arrest of Meng Wanzhou in Canada sparks a geopolitical crisis

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Chinese Dreams

Chinese Dreams: Kenya

How is China’s growing role in Kenya’s media scene changing perceptions of China?

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Chinese Dreams

Chinese Dreams: India

Where is the complicated relationship between India and China heading?

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Being

Mexico City: Women

Mexican women are calling on authorities to do more to combat the high rates of femicide

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Being

Mexico City: Men

As the MeToo movement gains momentum in Mexico City how do the men see gender equality?

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Being

Poland: Women

Gender is a fraught political issue in Poland and many women are feeling challenged

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Being

Poland: Men and gender relations

What men in Poland are really thinking about the pivotal point for gender relations

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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

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Changing World, Changing Bodies

How modern life affects our sleep

How do we get a good nights sleep in an increasingly noisy world?

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Changing World, Changing Bodies

Is height all in the mind?

Professor Cregan-Reid explores why people have grown so fast in the 20th Century

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Changing World, Changing Bodies

What is the secret to a longer life?

Five communities consistently outlive the rest of the planet boasting members aged 100+

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The Future of Free Speech

Courts and the right to free speech

Robin Lustig explores the threats to and opportunities for the right to free speech

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The Future of Free Speech

Freedom of speech in universities: Who draws the line?

Robin Lustig explores the threats to and opportunities for the right to free speech

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The Future of Free Speech

Blasphemy or free speech?

Robin Lustig explores the challenge of blasphemy over the right to free speech

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The Future of Free Speech

Journalists: Free speech v personal safety

Robin Lustig explores journalists' freedom to report against threats to their own safety

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The Future of Free Speech

Tech companies and free speech

Is it up to tech companies to police what people should or shouldn’t say, post or tweet?

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Window on the universe

A new space telescope promises to transform our view of the universe.

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The Pandemic that Changed the World

Reasons: The pandemic that changed the world

Why did world leaders fail to work together to prevent the spread of Covid-19?

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The Pandemic that Changed the World

Remedies: The pandemic that changed the world

How should governments respond to the pandemic?

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The Pandemic that Changed the World

Rethinking: The pandemic that changed the world

Ian Goldin analyses the Covid pandemic, economic disaster and the future of globalisation

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The Senses

The senses: Touch

When our sensory system goes wrong, we learn how our senses help us understand the world

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The Senses

The senses: Vision

How glitches between our eyes and brain cause bewildering, even terrifying, images.

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The Senses

The senses: Hearing

‘I could hear my eyeballs moving’: How rogue messages pass between our ears and brain

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The Senses

The senses: Smell and taste

‘Everything smelled of rotting flesh, even perfume’: What happens when smell goes wrong?

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The Senses

The senses: Synaesthesia: When senses merge

Synaesthesia: We meet the man whose sister tastes of blackcurrant yoghurt

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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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Climate Wars

Climate Wars: Darfur

Will Robson examines the links between climate change and global conflicts

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Climate Wars

Climate Wars: Water conflicts

How drought is fuelling conflict in India and Pakistan

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Climate Wars

Climate Wars: The new Cold War

As temperatures rise in the Arctic, global superpowers are eyeing new opportunities

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Climate Wars

Climate Wars: The Sahel

How climate change is acting as a catalyst for conflict in Africa's Sahel region

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Climate Wars

Climate Wars: Central and Northern America

What impact is climate change having on human security in Central and Northern America?

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Can Germany Save the World?

Can Germany Save the World?: Mutti and her crisis management

Can Angela Merkel teach the world a lesson about managing crises?

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Can Germany Save the World?

Can Germany Save the World?: Building a post-Covid society

As governments rethink their economies and societies, could Germany provide the answers?

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Can Germany Save the World?

Can Germany Save the World?: Stepping up on the world stage

Is Germany ready to be more assertive on the world stage?

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Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers: A photograph, a pipe and a skull

Should priceless stolen objects that form part of history be returned to their origins?

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Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers: Icons and empire

Calls for the return of objects, looted from around the world are growing ever louder

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Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers: A house that came home

What chance do communities have of getting looted artefacts back?

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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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My Perfect City

My Perfect City: Oslo

What can Oslo – the European Green Capital of 2019 – offer to the perfect city?

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My Perfect City

My Perfect City: Employment in Toronto

Is a Canadian city's approach to unemployment one that other cities should consider?

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My Perfect City

My Perfect City: Mental health in Singapore

Has Singapore found a solution to improving its citizens’ wellbeing?

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My Perfect City

My Perfect City: Housing in Vienna

In Vienna housing is considered a human right. Is it a model other cities should follow?

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My Perfect City

My Perfect City: Integration in Rotterdam

A Dutch city lauded for its policies on integrating immigrant populations

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My Perfect City

My Perfect City: Women entrepreneurs in Kochi

An Indian city making female entrepreneurship a priority

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My Perfect City

My Perfect City: Communities in Barcelona

Can other cities learn from Barcelona's community-building initiatives?

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The New Arctic

The New Arctic: Communities under threat

Allan Little investigates how the climate crisis is impacting Arctic communities

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The New Arctic

The New Arctic: Resource extraction

As the ice retreats can the scramble for resources beneath the Arctic benefit communities?

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The New Arctic

The New Arctic: Tourism

Tourism in the Arctic is growing but is it a sustainable industry?

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The New Arctic

The New Arctic: Power

As tensions rise between Russia, Nato and China in the Arctic is a new cold war likely?

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Under the Canopy

Forests of folktale and imagination

The role that forests play in our imaginations and how they reflect our inner wildness

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Under the Canopy

Forests of science and knowledge

Radical new ways of recognising forests as communities of mutually supportive trees

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Under the Canopy

Forests of hope and the future

Jessica J. Lee explores the myriad ways that forests operate in our lives

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Water: Too Much And Not Enough

How water shaped us

How our relationship with water evolved through time and shaped our deepest psychology

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Water: Too Much And Not Enough

Water as a resource

Alok Jha uncovers the broken economics and politics of water

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Water: Too Much And Not Enough

Ecological crises

The ecological crises threatening water supplies from the lakes of Bangalore to Lake Chad

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Water: Too Much And Not Enough

Solutions

Alok Jha shows how water itself may offer solutions to give us hope

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Gambling: A Sure Bet?

Gambling: A Sure Bet? Kenya

Dr Heather Wardle meets the students gambling on football to try and earn a living

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Gambling: A Sure Bet?

Gambling: A Sure Bet? Albania

Is banning gambling the best way to tackle the problems it causes in Albania?

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Gambling: A Sure Bet?

Gambling: A sure bet? USA

The Native American Tribes feeling threatened by the rise in online sports betting

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Automation Nation

Machines: What they do now that they did not do before

Daniel Susskind explores automation’s impact on the future of work in America

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Automation Nation

Automation and the future of jobs

What does the new wave of high-tech automation mean for jobs?

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Automation Nation

Are we heading for a world without work?

Could automation lead to the end of work, and what would that mean for the world?

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The Golden Age Of Gold

23/06/2021 GMT

We explore gold's past, present and future and humanity’s obsession with it.

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