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From inflation to GDP, from the stock exchange to bonds, Tim Harford goes back to basics to explain the terms we hear every day, and what they mean for you.
This is the story of a sewage scandal. How a centuries old battle between public good and private profit created an almighty stink. And who...
Learning to read permanently alters your brain. It changes the emotions you experience and the way you relate to others. When a society lear...
Reading seems an unremarkable skill. When we say something is as “easy as ABC”, we mean it is very easy indeed. In fact, learning to read ha...
Reading seems an unremarkable skill. After all, everyone can read. Even small children. When we say something is as “easy as ABC”, we mean i...
The story of how reading made us and what might happen if we stop - with James Marriott.
As James Naughtie concludes his series about the ideas tying America's birth 250 years ago to the United States today, he examines freedom,...
James Naughtie continues his look at the ideas tying America's founding to the modern United States, asking how 'justice' has been understoo...
James Naughtie continues his look at the ideas tying America's founding to the modern United States, as he looks at what it means to be an A...
James Naughtie examines the ideas tying America's founding to the modern United States. In this major new series marking America's 250th ann...
Justin Webb looks back at the five big US foreign policy shifts from the Monroe Doctrine to Donald Trump. Over five episodes he and his gues...
Justin Webb looks back at the five big US foreign policy shifts from the Monroe Doctrine to Donald Trump. Over five episodes he and his gues...
Justin Webb looks back at the five big US foreign policy shifts from the Monroe Doctrine to Donald Trump. Over five episodes he and his gues...
Justin Webb looks back at the five big US foreign policy shifts from the Monroe Doctrine to Donald Trump. Over five episodes he and his gues...
Justin Webb looks back at the five big US foreign policy shifts from the Monroe Doctrine to Donald Trump. Over five episodes he and his gues...
Justin Webb looks at five big US foreign policy shifts, from Monroe to Trump.
During the early weeks of the pandemic, Tim Hayward spent 14 days in a coma. He remembers this time vividly – his days and nights filled wit...
During the early weeks of the pandemic, Tim Hayward spent 14 days in a coma. He remembers this time vividly – his days and nights filled wit...
During the early weeks of the pandemic, Tim Hayward spent 14 days in a coma. He remembers this time vividly – his days and nights filled wit...
During the early weeks of the pandemic, Tim Hayward spent 14 days in a coma. He remembers this time vividly – his days and nights filled wit...
During the early weeks of the pandemic, Tim Hayward spent 14 days in a coma. He remembers this time vividly – his days and nights filled wit...
During the early weeks of the pandemic, Tim Hayward spent 14 days in a coma. He remembers this time vividly – his days and nights filled wit...
During the early weeks of the pandemic, Tim Hayward spent 14 days in a coma. He remembers this time vividly – his days and nights filled wit...
During the early weeks of the pandemic, Tim Hayward spent 14 days in a coma. He remembers this time vividly – his days and nights filled wit...
During the early weeks of the pandemic, Tim Hayward spent 14 days in a coma. He remembers this time vividly – his days and nights filled wit...
During the early weeks of the pandemic, Tim Hayward spent 14 days in a coma. He remembers this time vividly – his days and nights filled wit...
During the early weeks of the pandemic, Tim Hayward spent 14 days in a coma. He remembers this time vividly – his days and nights filled wit...
The new government is trying to get a grip of HS2, with yet another reset. Kate challenges the new minister, Lord Hendy, on the project’s fu...
The arrival of Rishi Sunak in Downing Street revived the hopes of those who wanted to see HS2 cancelled entirely. One leg - to Leeds - had a...
After successfully defeating a number of fracking projects, a wave of hardened environmentalists join the anti-HS2 protest movement. Locking...
Costs began to truly spiral out of control. In search of the culprit, Kate goes through the mess HS2 made of some its largest contracts. Muc...
Revelations about waste and delay have left HS2 in poor shape - and ripe, in the view of its political opponents, for cancellation. But, at...
As HS2 began the process of lining up land along its route for purchase, individuals within the team became deeply concerned. They feared th...
To deal with the growing opposition, the government resolved to commit to HS2 by way of a hybrid bill, which would open up opportunities for...
As specific plans for HS2 were announced, protestors quickly sprang into action, forming campaigning groups and arguing for the line to be f...
As the designs for HS2 took shape, the new team behind it set out to prove its value to Ministers and MPs. But as Kate hears, long term flaw...
Kate meets Andrew McNaughton, the man who, in 2009, was given the task of sitting down with a blank piece of paper and designing a new high...
Kate Lamble investigates the extraordinary inside story of Britain's most ambitious and controversial rail project. Listen first on BBC Soun...
Understand the UK Election is a simple 10-part guide to everything that is going on in the election, hosted by Adam Fleming. In this episode...
Understand the UK Election is a simple 10-part guide to everything that is going on in the election, hosted by Adam Fleming. In this episode...
Understand the UK Election is a simple 10-part guide to everything that is going on in the election, with Adam Fleming. In this episode, fro...
Understand the UK Election is a simple 10-part guide to everything that is going on in the election, with Adam Fleming. In this episode, wha...
Understand the UK Election is a simple 10-part guide to everything that is going on in the election, with Adam Fleming. Seats with slim majo...
Understand the UK Election is a simple 10-part guide to everything that is going on in the election, hosted by Adam Fleming. In this episode...
Understand the UK Election is a simple 10-part guide to everything that is going on in the election, hosted by Adam Fleming. In this episode...
Understand the UK Election is a simple 10-part guide to everything that is going on in the election, hosted by Adam Fleming. In this episode...
Understand the UK Election is a simple 10-part guide to everything that is going on in the election, hosted by Adam Fleming. In this episode...
Understand the UK Election is a simple 10-episode guide to everything that is going on in the election. Hosted by Adam Fleming, it looks at...
In the final episode of the series, Justin Webb and guests discuss how the role of president has changed - and what the winner of the vote w...
In the penultimate episode, Justin Webb and guests discuss what happens on election day -- and how the notorious electoral college system wo...
Justin Webb and guests reach episode 3 of this guide to how the US elections are run, with a look at the historical and contemporary importa...