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The New World

BBC

Are we at a series of global tipping points?

Episodes

14 episodes

Imagining the New Truth: Oksana Zabuzhko

Ukrainian author Oksana Zabuzhko on processing the turbulent world through her work

14:00Jan 6, 2017

Fixing Globalisation

Jim O'Neill asks if new challenges mean an end to the era of globalisation. As chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Lord O'Neill was...

42:43Jan 6, 2017

Fixing Globalisation – Jim O’Neill in conversation with Paul Mason

This is bonus material from interviews recorded for the New World Series. The economist Jim O’Neill talks to the left-wing thinker Paul Maso...

18:20Jan 6, 2017

Fixing Globalisation – Jim O’Neill in conversation with George Osborne

This is bonus material from interviews recorded for the New World Series. The economist Jim O’Neill talks with his old boss, the former Cons...

17:38Jan 6, 2017

Fixing Globalisation – Jim O’Neill in conversation with David Miliband

The economist Jim O’Neill talks to the President of the International Rescue Committee and former Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband ab...

16:19Jan 6, 2017

Fixing Globalisation – Jim O’Neill in conversation with Jim Yong Kim

The economist Jim O’Neill talks with the president of the World Bank, Dr Jim Yong Kim, about globalisation’s winners and losers and how worl...

13:39Jan 6, 2017

It's the Demography, Stupid!

How is population change transforming our world? Think of a python swallowing a pig: a big bulge makes its way slowly down the snake from th...

42:23Jan 5, 2017

Imagining the New Truth: Tania Bruguera

Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera on 'artivism' in a changing world

13:47Jan 5, 2017

Imagining the New Truth: Dayanita Singh

Dayanita Singh uses her photography to construct stories of a changing India.

14:00Jan 4, 2017

Us Versus Them

John Harris examines the international rise of anti-elitist or 'populist' politics, what is motivating the anger of voters, and what might h...

42:25Jan 4, 2017

Imagining the New Truth: Daniel Kehlmann

The novelist and playwright on the changing politics of the US, Germany and Austria.

14:00Jan 3, 2017

Axis of Power

Gideon Rachman examines the challenge the rise of China poses to American global power, and explores a new pattern of international tensions...

42:19Jan 3, 2017

Imagining the New Truth: Ece Temelkuran

Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran on how she chronicles the turbulent world through her work.

14:12Jan 2, 2017

Nothing but the truth

Are we really living in a post-truth world? It has been an extraordinary year for the concept of veracity. Brexit. Trump. Experts have taken...

42:12Jan 2, 2017