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Episodes (590)
Is it Time to Ban the Plastic Bottle?
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Is Gene Editing Out of Control?
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What's So Special About Qatar?
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Have We Always Felt This Tired?
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Why Does China Want to Revive the Silk Road?
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Is the Greatest Threat to Putin Really Alexei Navalny?
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How Do You Report Terrorism?
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Is Work Too Easy?
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Does Poverty Change The Way We Think?
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How Did Immigration Stop Being a Political Taboo in the UK?
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How Did Venezuela Go From So Rich To So Poor?
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How did North Korea get the bomb?
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Is Inequality About to Get Unimaginably Worse?
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How Powerful is Facebook's Algorithm?
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What Happens When You Legalise Cannabis?
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Why Is No-one Trying to Stop the War in Yemen?
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Do We Need A Plan B For Climate Change?
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What’s Wrong With France?
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Are Famines Always Man-Made?
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How is Mosul Being Liberated?
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What Happened to Europe’s Migrant Crisis?
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Why Can't We Stop Looking at our Phones?
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Is Donald Trump Good for Journalism?
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Can You Believe What You Read on WikiLeaks?
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What Would ‘No Deal’ Mean For Brexit Britain?
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How do you launch a nuclear missile?
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How Did the US Get Stuck With Guantanamo?
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Is There Anybody Out There?
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Can We Eat Our Way Out Of Climate Change?
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What Went Right in 2016?
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Should We Give Homeless People Homes?
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What’s the Story of Aleppo?
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Does Turkey Still Want to Join the EU?
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Why Do Governments Do Stupid Things?
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Why Did The Polls Get it Wrong (Or Did They)?
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Why Does Anyone Still Smoke?
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After the Electoral Shocks of Brexit and the US Election - What Next?
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Was this the Most Divisive US Election Ever?
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How Do We Fix Antibiotics?
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Can a Corrupt Country Get Clean?
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Why are 10,000 Children Missing in Europe?
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Is Islamic State Finished?
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Who Wins in a Cashless Economy?
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What’s the Point of Lotteries?
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Can Coral Reefs Survive?
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Is Retirement Over?
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Would Donald Trump Be a Dangerous President?
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Why Don’t Cities Want The Olympics?
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Has Russia Won In Ukraine?
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How Did we Save the Ozone Layer?
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