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The Inquiry Episodes

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    How Do Dictators Survive So Long?

    What’s in the dictators’ survival guide?

  2. Is Plastic Doomed?

    The tide of public opinion is turning on plastic

  3. Have We Always Felt This Tired?

    The past, present and possible future story of human sleep.

  4. What’s Happening to IS Fighters Now?

    From courtrooms and prisons to rehab centres and martial arts training

  5. Is Facebook in Trouble?

    Fake news, hate speech, users logging off - does Facebook need fixing?

  6. What Happens When a Cyber-attack Strikes?

    We tell the story of the most damaging cyber attack in history

  7. How Do You Close The Gender Pay Gap?

    Women earn less than men in every country in the world

  8. Why is Cape Town Running Out of Water?

    Cape Town could run out of water by June. What went wrong?

  9. Why Are the Taliban So Resilient?

    The insurgent group’s influence is extending across Afghanistan

  10. How Did We Get Hooked on Plastic?

    The story of how the search for a material to replace ivory changed our lives forever

  11. What Does China Want in the South China Sea?

    The South China Sea's hotly contested waters could be a flashpoint for conflict in 2018

  12. What’s the Greatest Threat to Poland?

    The EU’s triggered the ‘nuclear option’ against Poland, is something bigger at stake?

  13. What is IS doing in the Philippines?

    In 2017 the black flag of the Islamic State group flew over the city of Marawi

  14. Is Zero Tolerance the Right Approach for FGM?

    Some experts are questioning the international campaign against Female Genital Mutilation

  15. What’s The Point Of Bitcoin?

    Making sense of the digital currency and the ideology of its founders, fans and future

  16. North Korea deep dive

    Nuclear ambitions and a war of words, a deep dive into the North Korea crisis

  17. How Do We Rule The Universe?

    Governing moon miners, asteroid hunters and space junk

  18. How Powerful is Facebook's Algorithm?

    What does Facebook’s computer code do with the data we give it?

  19. Are We Missing a Bigger Opioid Crisis?

    While the US suffers an overdose epidemic, most of the world misses out on painkillers

  20. What Would an Iran-Saudi Arabia War Look Like?

    Tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia are at an unprecedented level

  21. Why Doesn’t Apple Pay More Tax?

    Examining claims that the world’s most profitable company is aggressively dodging tax

  22. What Does the Saudi Crown Prince Want?

    He has pushed through reforms but some fear there is a darker desire driving the ruler

  23. Is the Knowledge Factory Broken?

    Dodgy data, contradictory findings, perverse incentives – the challenges facing academia

  24. How Powerful is Iran’s Revolutionary Guard?

    The growth and reach of a group labelled a ‘terror force’ by President Trump

  25. How Do You End A Civil War?

    Why internal conflicts end and what it might mean for Syria.

  26. Is the Pope Catholic?

    Inside the fierce debate dividing the Roman Catholic Church

  27. Can We Teach Robots Ethics?

    From driverless cars to "carebots", machines are entering the realm of right and wrong.

  28. Is Privacy Dead?

    Can we protect our privacy in the digital age?

  29. Could We Ban the Sale of Petrol and Diesel Cars Now?

    Can the electric car rule the road?

  30. Can China solve the North Korea problem?

    Can China persuade North Korea to step back from its nuclear ambitions?

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