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Food for thought with Minette Batters
Season 4 Episode 6
Minette Batters, President of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales, represents an estimated 55,000 farmers and farm workers. She has cha…
2 years, 9 months ago
The case for public consumption with Sir Andrew Dilnot
Season 4 Episode 5
Sir Andrew Dilnot is an economist who believes that statistics hold a key role in lessening inequality and making Britain fairer.
He is now the ward…
2 years, 10 months ago
Cancelling the Global South's debt with Ann Pettifor
Season 4 Episode 4
Ann Pettifor is an economist who is perhaps most famous for predicting the Global Financial Crisis two years before it happened.
But Ann is not just a…
2 years, 10 months ago
Reframing the climate crisis narrative with Neil Adger
Season 4 Episode 3
Neil Adger, Professor of Human Geography at the University of Exeter, examines human movement as a strategy and adaptation to climate change.
From th…
2 years, 10 months ago
Will Artificial Intelligence see us lose our jobs? with Daniel Susskind
Season 4 Episode 2
Economist Daniel Susskind has been studying the nature of work and automation for years, long before ChatGPT entered the chat.
But Daniel's work has n…
2 years, 10 months ago
Do we value universities enough in Britain? with Vivienne Stern
Season 4 Episode 1
Vivienne Stern is the chief executive of Universities UK, a membership organisation that represents 140 UK universities. In this role, she's had to w…
2 years, 11 months ago
The We Society returns for Season 4
Season 3 Episode 7
The We Society returns on Wednesday (4 October) for Season 4. Expect to hear more conversations on ideas that shape the world we live from the world …
2 years, 11 months ago
Summer Recap: Hillary Clinton, Ai Weiwei, Gary Younge
Episode 7
Our host, Will Hutton, chooses some 'must listen' moments from the past three seasons featuring Hillary Clinton, Ai Weiwei, Mariana Mazzuccato, Gary …
3 years ago
What does the future hold? With Ian McEwan
Season 3 Episode 6
Novelist Ian McEwan is one of Britain's finest fiction writers whose canon of work has won him the Booker Prize amongst countless other awards and ac…
3 years, 3 months ago
The history of racism with Kenan Malik
Season 3 Episode 5
Kenan Malik is an Observer columnist, a political thinker, and a seasoned broadcaster whose work mainly focuses on moral ethics and racism.
He joins …
3 years, 3 months ago