Podcasts by The New World
Are we at a series of global tipping points? Radio 4 explores the paradigm shifts that are taking place across the globe, from the arrival of the post-truth society to the potential departure of globalisation, taking in shifting demographic sands, the backlash against the political elite and pivot of power to the East along the way.
Further podcasts by BBC Radio 4
Podcast on the topic Gesellschaft und Kultur
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Imagining the New Truth: Oksana Zabuzhko from 2017-01-06T10:00
Ukrainian author Oksana Zabuzhko on processing the turbulent world through her work
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Fixing Globalisation from 2017-01-06T09:49
Jim O'Neill asks if new challenges mean an end to the era of globalisation. As chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Lord O'Neill was seen as one of the high priests of globalisation - coi...
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Fixing Globalisation – Jim O’Neill in conversation with Paul Mason from 2017-01-06T09:48
This is bonus material from interviews recorded for the New World Series. The economist Jim O’Neill talks to the left-wing thinker Paul Mason about globalisation, neoliberalism and how people ac...
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Fixing Globalisation – Jim O’Neill in conversation with George Osborne from 2017-01-06T09:47
This is bonus material from interviews recorded for the New World Series. The economist Jim O’Neill talks with his old boss, the former Conservative Chancellor, George Osborne, about the roots a...
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Fixing Globalisation – Jim O’Neill in conversation with David Miliband from 2017-01-06T09:46
The economist Jim O’Neill talks to the President of the International Rescue Committee and former Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband about the roots and risks of ‘de-globalisation’. This is...
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Fixing Globalisation – Jim O’Neill in conversation with Jim Yong Kim from 2017-01-06T09:45
The economist Jim O’Neill talks with the president of the World Bank, Dr Jim Yong Kim, about globalisation’s winners and losers and how world leaders can ensure its benefits are more evenly spre...
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It's the Demography, Stupid! from 2017-01-05T16:36
How is population change transforming our world? Think of a python swallowing a pig: a big bulge makes its way slowly down the snake from the head end to the other end. That's a bit like what's ...
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Imagining the New Truth: Tania Bruguera from 2017-01-05T10:00
Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera on 'artivism' in a changing world
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Imagining the New Truth: Dayanita Singh from 2017-01-04T10:00
Dayanita Singh uses her photography to construct stories of a changing India.
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Us Versus Them from 2017-01-04T09:45
John Harris examines the international rise of anti-elitist or 'populist' politics, what is motivating the anger of voters, and what might happen next.
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Imagining the New Truth: Daniel Kehlmann from 2017-01-03T10:00
The novelist and playwright on the changing politics of the US, Germany and Austria.
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Axis of Power from 2017-01-03T09:45
Gideon Rachman examines the challenge the rise of China poses to American global power, and explores a new pattern of international tensions.
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Imagining the New Truth: Ece Temelkuran from 2017-01-02T10:00
Turkish writer Ece Temelkuran on how she chronicles the turbulent world through her work.
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Nothing but the truth from 2017-01-02T09:45
Are we really living in a post-truth world? It has been an extraordinary year for the concept of veracity. Brexit. Trump. Experts have taken a beating, facts have apparently taken second place t...
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