How is population change transforming our world? Think of a python swallowing a pig: a big bulge makes its way slowly down the snake from the head end to the other end. That's a bit like what's happened to the UK demographically. The baby boom

Us Versus Them

Jan 4th, 2017 42m 25s

John Harris examines the international rise of anti-elitist or 'populist' politics, what is motivating the anger of voters, and what might happen next.

Axis of Power

Jan 3rd, 2017 42m 19s

Gideon Rachman examines the challenge the rise of China poses to American global power, and explores a new pattern of international tensions.

Nothing but the truth

Jan 2nd, 2017 42m 12s

Are we really living in a post-truth world? It has been an extraordinary year for the concept of veracity. Brexit. Trump. Experts have taken a beating, facts have apparently taken second place to emotion and feeling. And what about truth? It se

Welcome to The New World

Dec 22nd, 2016 8s

Welcome to this new BBC podcast. The first episode will be published soon.

Imagining the New Truth: Oksana Zabuzhko

Jan 6th, 2017 14m

Ukrainian author Oksana Zabuzhko on processing the turbulent world through her work

Fixing Globalisation

Jan 6th, 2017 42m 43s

Jim O'Neill asks if new challenges mean an end to the era of globalisation. As chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, Lord O'Neill was seen as one of the high priests of globalisation - coining the term BRICs to describe the economic rise

Fixing Globalisation – Jim O’Neill in conversation with Paul Mason

Jan 6th, 2017 18m 20s

This is bonus material from interviews recorded for the New World Series. The economist Jim O’Neill talks to the left-wing thinker Paul Mason about globalisation, neoliberalism and how people across the political spectrum can unite to defend in

Fixing Globalisation – Jim O’Neill in conversation with George Osborne

Jan 6th, 2017 17m 38s

This is bonus material from interviews recorded for the New World Series. The economist Jim O’Neill talks with his old boss, the former Conservative Chancellor, George Osborne, about the roots and policy responses to the current backlash agains

Fixing Globalisation – Jim O’Neill in conversation with David Miliband

Jan 6th, 2017 16m 19s

The economist Jim O’Neill talks to the President of the International Rescue Committee and former Labour Foreign Secretary David Miliband about the roots and risks of ‘de-globalisation’. This is bonus material from interviews recorded for the N

Fixing Globalisation – Jim O’Neill in conversation with Jim Yong Kim

Jan 6th, 2017 13m 39s

The economist Jim O’Neill talks with the president of the World Bank, Dr Jim Yong Kim, about globalisation’s winners and losers and how world leaders can ensure its benefits are more evenly spread. This is bonus material from interviews recorde