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?

• 27 mins

The Sun, Our Star

The Sun, Our Star: Energy

How much energy can we get from the Sun?

• 27 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

My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: The Debate

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

• 26 mins

My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Rwanda

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

• 26 mins

My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Cuba

Does Cuba hold the best policy for surviving hurricanes?

• 26 mins

My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Germany

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

• 26 mins

My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Norway

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

• 26 mins

My Perfect Country

My Perfect Country: Nepal

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

• 26 mins