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The Inquiry Episodes

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    How Do We Stop People Dying in Floods?

    Do we have the power to avoid the natural forces of intense rainfall?

  2. What Can We Do With Our Dead?

    Cemeteries around the world are fast running out of space.

  3. How Has The Ku Klux Klan Lasted So Long?

    Why the US racist group the Ku Klux Klan continues to exist

  4. Are Video Games a Waste of Time?

    Gaming is replacing work for some young men in the US

  5. How Do You Fix Someone Else's Election?

    Smears, bots and bags of cash - stories of old tricks and new.

  6. Are South Africa's Police Failing?

    A story of crime and often no punishment

  7. Who Gets to Have Their Own Country?

    You might think simple rules decide the creation of nation states. You'd be wrong.

  8. What would war with North Korea look like?

    We reveal the conversations inside the war rooms

  9. Is it Time to Ban the Plastic Bottle?

    Every single second, 20,000 single-use drinking bottles are sold around the world

  10. Is Gene Editing Out of Control?

    The Inquiry looks into the unintended consequences of gene editing

  11. What's So Special About Qatar?

    The tiny state behind a global diplomatic feud.

  12. Have We Always Felt This Tired?

    The past, present and possible future story of human sleep

  13. Why Does China Want to Revive the Silk Road?

    The biggest infrastructure initiative of all time could change the current world order.

  14. Is the Greatest Threat to Putin Really Alexei Navalny?

    Assessing the strength of the opposition leader who has run mass protests in Russia

  15. How Do You Report Terrorism?

    Should the media devote less coverage to terrorist attacks?

  16. Is Work Too Easy?

    We used to work ourselves to an early death. Do we now sit ourselves to one instead?

  17. Does Poverty Change The Way We Think?

    Investigating the scientific claims that being poor affects how our brains work

  18. How Did Immigration Stop Being a Political Taboo in the UK?

    How did immigration stop being a political taboo in the UK?

  19. How Did Venezuela Go From So Rich To So Poor?

    Once the richest country in South America, Venezuela is now in deep economic crisis

  20. How did North Korea get the bomb?

    Exploring how the secretive state has acquired nuclear weapons

  21. Is Inequality About to Get Unimaginably Worse?

    A special edition with Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens and Homo Deus.

  22. How Powerful is Facebook's Algorithm?

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

  23. What Happens When You Legalise Cannabis?

    Ruth Alexander looks at what happened next after legalising cannabis

  24. Why Is No-one Trying to Stop the War in Yemen?

    Thousands have been killed and the country is on the brink of famine

  25. Do We Need A Plan B For Climate Change?

    Scientists have been developing some very ambitious ideas to re-engineer our climate

  26. What鈥檚 Wrong With France?

    All the candidates in the French presidential election are calling for radical change

  27. Are Famines Always Man-Made?

    Humankind long ago figured out how to avoid famine

  28. How is Mosul Being Liberated?

    The story of the largest battle on Earth today

  29. What Happened to Europe鈥檚 Migrant Crisis?

    In 2015 huge numbers of migrants were trying to reach Europe. We hear what happened next

  30. Why Can't We Stop Looking at our Phones?

    The science and psychology of smartphone design

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