The Inquiry Podcast
The Inquiry gets beyond the headlines to explore the trends, forces and ideas shaping the world.
Episodes to download
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Is Retirement Over?
Tue 30 Aug 2016
People are living longer, but not saving enough for their old age.
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Would Donald Trump Be a Dangerous President?
Tue 23 Aug 2016
Fifty US security officials have said Trump 鈥渨ould be a dangerous president鈥�
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Why Don鈥檛 Cities Want The Olympics?
Tue 16 Aug 2016
The number of cities bidding to host the Olympic Games is falling
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How Did we Save the Ozone Layer?
Tue 2 Aug 2016
How scientists, campaigners, business and government came together to avert disaster
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Can Colombia Reintegrate the Farc?
Tue 26 Jul 2016
How to bring thousands of jungle fighters into society after 50 years of conflict
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Is Brexit Inevitable?
Tue 19 Jul 2016
Britain鈥檚 PM says 鈥淏rexit means Brexit鈥�. But some have suggested it might never happen
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Can You Make Bankers Behave Better?
Tue 5 Jul 2016
Exploring how individual bankers might be nudged into better and safer choices
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Why Do So Many People Dislike Hillary?
Tue 21 Jun 2016
How the US presidential frontrunner got to be so unpopular
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Are We Really About to End World Poverty?
Tue 14 Jun 2016
The UN thinks ending extreme poverty is within our grasp
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Why Can't Egypt Stop FGM?
Tue 7 Jun 2016
FGM is more common in Egypt than anywhere else in the world
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Are we Fighting Cancer the Right Way?
Tue 31 May 2016
The World Health Organisation says cancer rates around the world are rising fast
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Would A New International Convention Help Refugees?
Tue 24 May 2016
The case for rethinking the 1951 UN Refugee Convention to deal with today's crisis
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What's Killing White American Women?
Tue 10 May 2016
The mysterious case of rising death rates in the world's richest country
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What Happened to the European Dream?
Tue 3 May 2016
The search for the vision that inspired the European project's founders
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Should We Give Homeless People Homes?
Tue 26 Apr 2016
How the city of Medicine Hat in Canada, gave every person living in the streets a home
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What Kind of Person Becomes a Violent Jihadi?
Tue 19 Apr 2016
The search for a 'terrorist type' and understanding people who kill for their beliefs
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What Happened To Al-Qaeda?
Tue 5 Apr 2016
Charting the fortunes of the group that once led the global jihadist movement
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Why Do Mexicans Drink So Much Soda?
Tue 29 Mar 2016
Mexicans are among the world鈥檚 biggest soda consumers, and it鈥檚 affecting their health
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Can we Quake-Proof a City?
Tue 22 Mar 2016
Earthquakes have killed a million people in the last two decades
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Why Are Wages So Low?
Tue 8 Mar 2016
Pay packets in developed economies have hardly grown in decades.
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How Did Governments Lose Control of Encryption?
Tue 1 Mar 2016
Spies, hippies, jihadis and the ongoing conflict over the power to keep secrets.
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Why Don鈥檛 We Eradicate Mosquitoes?
Tue 16 Feb 2016
Mosquitoes cause a huge number of deaths. But getting rid of them would be complicated.
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How Did Iceland Clean Up its Banks (And Why Can't We)?
Tue 9 Feb 2016
Iceland put its prime minister on trial, cleaned up its banks and jailed senior bankers
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Are We Fighting Cancer the Right Way?
Tue 2 Feb 2016
The rising number of cancer cases worldwide poses a challenge for doctors and governments
