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?

• 26 mins

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?

• 26 mins

Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers: Icons and empire

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

• 26 mins

Finders Keepers

Finders Keepers: A house that came home

What chance do communities have of getting looted artefacts back?

• 26 mins

My Perfect City

The green city: San Francisco, USA

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

• 26 mins

My Perfect City

The smart city: Seoul, South Korea

How is data being used to help Seoul run smoothly?

• 26 mins

My Perfect City

The 24-hour city: London, UK

How the UK capital makes money around the clock

• 26 mins

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?

• 26 mins

My Perfect City

Knife crime: Glasgow, Scotland

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

• 26 mins

My Perfect City

Medellin, Colombia: Slums and urban regeneration

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

• 26 mins

My Perfect City

My Perfect City: Oslo

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

• 49 mins

My Perfect City

My Perfect City: Employment in Toronto

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

• 26 mins

My Perfect City

My Perfect City: Mental health in Singapore

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

• 26 mins

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?

• 26 mins

My Perfect City

My Perfect City: Integration in Rotterdam

A Dutch city lauded for its policies on integrating immigrant populations

• 26 mins

My Perfect City

My Perfect City: Women entrepreneurs in Kochi

An Indian city making female entrepreneurship a priority

• 26 mins

My Perfect City

My Perfect City: Communities in Barcelona

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

• 26 mins

The New Arctic

The New Arctic: Communities under threat

Allan Little investigates how the climate crisis is impacting Arctic communities

• 27 mins

The New Arctic

The New Arctic: Resource extraction

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

• 27 mins

The New Arctic

The New Arctic: Tourism

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

• 27 mins

The New Arctic

The New Arctic: Power

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

• 27 mins

Under the Canopy

Forests of folktale and imagination

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

• 27 mins

Under the Canopy

Forests of science and knowledge

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

• 27 mins

Under the Canopy

Forests of hope and the future

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

• 27 mins

Water: Too Much And Not Enough

How water shaped us

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

• 26 mins

Water: Too Much And Not Enough

Water as a resource

Alok Jha uncovers the broken economics and politics of water

• 26 mins

Water: Too Much And Not Enough

Ecological crises

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

• 26 mins

Water: Too Much And Not Enough

Solutions

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

• 26 mins

Gambling: A Sure Bet?

Gambling: A Sure Bet? Kenya

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

• 26 mins