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From Del Boy to Dogecoin: How we all got hooked on getting rich quick
Season 1 Episode 922
When did we all start wanting to invest in stock and shares? And who were the winners and losers of the investment boom? Dr Amy Edwards, senior lectu…
2 years, 11 months ago
Run KGB: How Soviet spies warped the West
Season 1 Episode 921
The KGB is one of the most notorious intelligence agencies of all time. Though long defunct, how did this Soviet network warp the world we live in to…
2 years, 11 months ago
Comfortably Brum: Why do the Tories love Birmingham?
Season 1 Episode 920
Birmingham plays a key role in the Tory imagination – something that might shock some of its 1.1 million inhabitants. So what is the relationship bet…
2 years, 11 months ago
See if I Keir — Start Your Week with Alex Andreou and Jacob Jarvis
Season 1 Episode 919
Keir Starmer is staying on the attack while Sunak faces more strike conundrums with junior doctors staging a mass walkout. Is the Government going to…
2 years, 11 months ago
Bunker Gold: Slave to the algorithm
Season 1 Episode 918
This Bank Holiday, enjoy a Bunker from the archives… We all want control over our lives. But as we make more decisions digitally, the impact of algor…
2 years, 11 months ago
Reading the ruins: What can Britain’s lost villages teach us?
Season 1 Episode 917
Britain has hundreds of abandoned villages. How did they fall victim to history? And how are the communities that once called these places home remem…
2 years, 11 months ago
Made in Manc-hattan: How music built a city
Season 1 Episode 916
Manchester’s music scene is famous the world over – but did Joy Division, the Haçienda and Factory Records really lead to a real estate boom that tra…
2 years, 11 months ago
Meeting the Swedish anti-vaxxers who believe ‘Mother Earth protects’
Season 1 Episode 915
In Sweden most people have a great deal of trust in the state, but in recent years vaccine scepticism has gained ground. Ethnographer Mia-Marie Hamma…
2 years, 11 months ago
Thatcher, the IRA, and the bomb that changed history
Season 1 Episode 914
In the autumn of 1984, the Provisional IRA almost wiped out the British Cabinet. Five people were killed in the Grand Hotel bombing. As we approach t…
2 years, 11 months ago
Number crunching: How the rich dodge tax
Season 1 Episode 913
Next to births and deaths, taxes are one of life's only certainties. But with a tax system made up of a bewildering mish-mash of rates and loopholes,…
2 years, 11 months ago