Podcast Episodes

Have We Always Felt This Tired?

“Humans are the only species that willingly deprive themselves from sleep”. Ever since fire was discovered, we have traded off sleep time for other activities - from creating stone tools to partying.…

Published on 8 years, 6 months ago

Why Does China Want to Revive the Silk Road?

China is currently developing the biggest infrastructure initiative of all time. Called the Belt and Road initiative, the trillion dollar plans involve working with other Asian countries to build hun…

Published on 8 years, 6 months ago

Is the Greatest Threat to Putin Really Alexei Navalny?

On 12 June 2017 thousands of protesters took to the streets in over 160 towns and cities across Russia. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny called on people to march against corruption from Kaliningrad …

Published on 8 years, 6 months ago

How Do You Report Terrorism?

When violent jihadis struck London last Saturday, the rolling news networks kicked quickly into action. The story became front-page news around the world and dominated the UK's news media for days, w…

Published on 8 years, 6 months ago

Is Work Too Easy?

Many of us find our jobs stressful, underpaid and the hours too long. But few would complain about work being less physically strenuous than in the past. And yet, new research shows that the decline…

Published on 8 years, 6 months ago

Does Poverty Change The Way We Think?

Does the experience of poverty actually take a physical toll on your brain? The Inquiry investigates the scientific claims that being poor affects how our brains work.

It's well known that children fr…

Published on 8 years, 7 months ago

How Did Immigration Stop Being a Political Taboo in the UK?

Brexit showed that the issue is now among the most important for British voters. And that’s likely to continue in June’s UK general election, as major parties have made their positions on immigration…

Published on 8 years, 7 months ago

How Did Venezuela Go From So Rich To So Poor?

Once the richest country in South America, Venezuela is now in deep economic crisis.

Children in school are fainting from hunger; patients are dying from the lack of basic medicine. As prices spiral o…

Published on 8 years, 7 months ago

How did North Korea get the bomb?

Tensions between the US and North Korea are running high. Kim Jong-Un has been testing long-range missiles and nuclear weapons. The Trump administration wants Pyongyang to end its nuclear weapons pro…

Published on 8 years, 7 months ago

Is Inequality About to Get Unimaginably Worse?

Yuval Noah Harari, the author of Sapiens and Homo Deus, explores the long history of inequality – from the Stone Age onwards – and asks whether we are on the brink of creating a huge “economically us…

Published on 8 years, 8 months ago