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Back to SearchIs Gene Editing The Next Great Health Revolution? Part II
Season 1 Episode 904
Ever since the discovery of DNA scientists have been on a quest to understand the secrets of the human genome. This quest has not only involved analysing the role genes play in making us who we are –…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Is Gene Editing The Next Great Health Revolution? Part I
Season 1 Episode 903
Ever since the discovery of DNA scientists have been on a quest to understand the secrets of the human genome. This quest has not only involved analysing the role genes play in making us who we are –…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Jude Law: On Typecasts, Character Acting, and London Theatre
Season 1 Episode 902
Samira Ahmed speaks to Academy Award-nominated actor Jude Law. They speak about his life and career, skipping school to go to the cinema in London as a teenager, his foray into acting, and the wide r…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
The World Needs Religion Even if it Doesn't Need God
Season 1 Episode 901
This is not a debate of religion vs. secularism. This is a debate about where and how the values in life are found, produced, and experienced. Some would argue that atheism has gone too far and there…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Margaret MacMillan on How War Has Shaped Humanity
Season 1 Episode 900
War - Do we care enough? In this episode, distinguished historian Margaret MacMillan explains why we should care about war and how it’s profoundly impacted our societies, political institutions, valu…
Published on 2 years, 8 months ago
Iraq: 20 Years On | Tony Blair on Trial
Season 1 Episode 899
Tony Blair is the man who reinvented Labour, won a landslide majority in 1997 and went on to win three elections, becoming Labour’s longest-serving prime minister. He is also the man accused of lies,…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Iraq: 20 Years On | ISIS, Terror and Extremism
Season 1 Episode 898
How did the Iraq war fuel terror and extremism around the world? What is the connection between Al-Qaeda and ISIS? How did figures like Abū Muṣʻab Zarqāwī and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi become such promine…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Iraq: 20 Years On | Loss of a Nation
Season 1 Episode 897
Over the last twenty years, award-winning Iraqi journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, has watched his nation disappear time and time again. Sectarian division, ethnic division, and military intervention have…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Iraq: 20 Years On | Invasion, Occupation and Failures
Season 1 Episode 896
What happened in Iraq once the Americans and the British arrived? Why was the transfer of power a far from smooth operation? And what else went wrong in what should have been the mission for liberati…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago
Iraq: 20 Years On | The Road to War
Season 1 Episode 895
Exactly twenty years ago today on the 20th March 2003, the US along with its allies launched a shock and awe bombing campaign on Iraq. It marked the start of the invasion - and occupation - of Iraq -…
Published on 2 years, 9 months ago