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Can Torture Be Stopped?

***WARNING - This audio contains descriptions of torture*** How can torture be stopped?

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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

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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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Memory, Myth and Politics

How can faulty communal memories of history be challenged and overturned?

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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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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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The American Psyche after September 11

How have the atrocities of 9/11 changed the way Americans think of themselves?

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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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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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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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Islam and September 11

How well does the West understand Islam and what did religion have to do with 9/11?

• 26 mins

In an Unreal World – Interview with Ivan Klíma

Czech novelist Ivan Klíma on the big issues for a novelist after the fall of communism

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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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Why Does War Exist?

Why do we fight wars? Is it inherent in human nature?

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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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Civil Liberties – Liberty versus Security

Will proposed new anti-terrorism legislation in Britain compromise our civil liberties?

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Does Nation-building Work?

Reconstructing Afghanistan could cost $20 billion but does nation-building really work?

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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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Living with Fear

Can we conquer fear or should we learn to live with it?

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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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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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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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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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Intellectuals – What Are They For?

Are intellectuals just for thinking big thoughts or can they change the world?

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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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Legacy of Colonialism in a Modern World

Is the legacy of colonialism's brutal passage to modernity all bad?

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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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Globalisation Is Lopsided – Interview with George Soros

We have a global market but we don't have a global society yet, says George Soros

• 26 mins

Do We Need the Commonwealth?

What's does the Commonwealth stand for the 21st century?

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Whatever Happened to the Paperless Office?

Why do we continue to use more and more paper?

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