Agenda Episodes Episode guide
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How Best to Make Slavery Reparations?
How can governments and individual companies best make reparations for slavery?
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Whatever Happened to the Paperless Office?
Why do we continue to use more and more paper?
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Do We Need the Commonwealth?
What's does the Commonwealth stand for the 21st century?
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Globalisation Is Lopsided – Interview with George Soros
We have a global market but we don't have a global society yet, says George Soros
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International Justice – War Crimes on Trial
How the trial of Slobodan Milosevic gives hope for independent international justice
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Legacy of Colonialism in a Modern World
Is the legacy of colonialism's brutal passage to modernity all bad?
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The Power and Politics of Food – Interview with Claudia Roden
How food reaches every aspect of life: friendship, class, health, sex and politics
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Intellectuals – What Are They For?
Are intellectuals just for thinking big thoughts or can they change the world?
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How Can We Best Talk about Equality?
What do we mean by equality and how can we apply it morally and politically?
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Russia – 10 Years after the End of the USSR
Special report from Saint Petersburg on Russia's first decade after the Soviet Union
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Bill Clinton on the 21st century after 9/11 – the Richard Dimbleby Lecture
Former US President Bill Clinton on the fight for the soul of the 21st century after 9/11
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To Hope Is to Be Human
Hope may spring eternal but is it a saving grace or the great deceiver?
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Living with Fear
Can we conquer fear or should we learn to live with it?
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Special Report from Prague
Have Czechs forged a new national identity since their release from the Soviet Union?
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Does Nation-building Work?
Reconstructing Afghanistan could cost $20 billion but does nation-building really work?
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Civil Liberties – Liberty versus Security
Will proposed new anti-terrorism legislation in Britain compromise our civil liberties?
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Is there a Connection between Globalisation and September 11?
Were attacks on the USA a result of resentment fuelled by unbridled global capitalism?
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Why Does War Exist?
Why do we fight wars? Is it inherent in human nature?
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'Civilisation' in the Balance
Is Western liberal democracy triumphant and if it is, will it remain so?
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In an Unreal World – Interview with Ivan KlÃma
Czech novelist Ivan KlÃma on the big issues for a novelist after the fall of communism
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Islam and September 11
How well does the West understand Islam and what did religion have to do with 9/11?
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Who Will Rule in Afghanistan?
What is the future for the country if and when the Taliban are removed from power?
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Germany and Europe – 9/11 Is Upsetting the Balance
How will 9/11 and the war on terror reshape the debate about EU integration?
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Time – Not a Moment to Spare
No time to stop and think? The experience of fast and slow time in the information age
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The American Psyche after September 11
How have the atrocities of 9/11 changed the way Americans think of themselves?
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The Future of US Foreign Policy after 9/11
How the terrorist attacks might affect American foreign policy in years ahead
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Branding – Buying into a Lifestyle
The power of branding: how advertisers get us to buy an idealised vision of ourselves
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Memory, Myth and Politics
How can faulty communal memories of history be challenged and overturned?
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Life in Numbers – Interview with Sir Roger Penrose
How can we learn to love numbers? Will computers ever replicate the human brain?
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Will the Euro Prove to Be a Good Idea?
The Euro goes live in five months. The pros and cons of the single European currency