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Ideas and trends shaping the world
World Service,·159 episodes
Are corporations and unelected institutions quietly taking over control from governments?
16 Jun 2001,·25 mins
What's the state of public culture in Britain and beyond – is it really under attack?
20 Jun 2001,·25 mins
Interview with Jonathan Miller, physician, writer, opera director and TV presenter
26 Jun 2001,·25 mins
Can it deliver on the promises to link us all together and provide instant information?
30 Jun 2001,·25 mins
Mark Tully on what will be on the table at the summit between Indian and Pakistani leaders
14 Jul 2001,·25 mins
Has corruption increased in the world of globalised economies? How corrupt is the West?
21 Jul 2001,·25 mins
John Pilger talks about New Rulers of the World, his new film about 'designer' sweatshops
28 Jul 2001,·25 mins
What is spirituality and how is it expressed?
04 Aug 2001,·25 mins
***WARNING - This audio contains descriptions of torture*** How can torture be stopped?
11 Aug 2001,·25 mins,·
The Euro goes live in five months. The pros and cons of the single European currency
18 Aug 2001,·25 mins
How can we learn to love numbers? Will computers ever replicate the human brain?
25 Aug 2001,·25 mins
How can faulty communal memories of history be challenged and overturned?
01 Sep 2001,·25 mins
The power of branding: how advertisers get us to buy an idealised vision of ourselves
08 Sep 2001,·25 mins
How the terrorist attacks might affect American foreign policy in years ahead
15 Sep 2001,·25 mins
How have the atrocities of 9/11 changed the way Americans think of themselves?
22 Sep 2001,·25 mins
No time to stop and think? The experience of fast and slow time in the information age
29 Sep 2001,·25 mins
How will 9/11 and the war on terror reshape the debate about EU integration?
06 Oct 2001,·25 mins
What is the future for the country if and when the Taliban are removed from power?
11 Oct 2001,·25 mins
How well does the West understand Islam and what did religion have to do with 9/11?
20 Oct 2001,·26 mins
Czech novelist Ivan KlÃma on the big issues for a novelist after the fall of communism
27 Oct 2001,·25 mins
Is Western liberal democracy triumphant and if it is, will it remain so?
03 Nov 2001,·25 mins
Why do we fight wars? Is it inherent in human nature?
10 Nov 2001,·25 mins
Were attacks on the USA a result of resentment fuelled by unbridled global capitalism?
12 Nov 2001,·25 mins
Will proposed new anti-terrorism legislation in Britain compromise our civil liberties?
17 Nov 2001,·25 mins
Reconstructing Afghanistan could cost $20 billion but does nation-building really work?
24 Nov 2001,·25 mins
Have Czechs forged a new national identity since their release from the Soviet Union?
01 Dec 2001,·25 mins
Can we conquer fear or should we learn to live with it?
08 Dec 2001,·25 mins
Hope may spring eternal but is it a saving grace or the great deceiver?
12 Dec 2001,·25 mins
Former US President Bill Clinton on the fight for the soul of the 21st century after 9/11
18 Dec 2001,·25 mins
Special report from Saint Petersburg on Russia's first decade after the Soviet Union
29 Dec 2001,·25 mins