Start the Week - Health Inequality: TB, Trauma and Technology
On Start the Week Andrew Marr explores killer diseases and the health of the world. Kathryn Lougheed focuses on one of the smartest killers humanity has ever faced - TB. It's been around since the start of civilisation and has learnt how to adapt to different environments, so today more than one million people still die of the disease every year. As with many diseases it's the poor who are most at risk. But Sir Michael Marmot explains how it's not just those at the bottom who are adversely affected, as health and life expectancy are directly related to where you are on the socio-economic ladder. The psychiatrist Lynne Jones also explores how far mental well-being is connected to human rights and the social and political worlds in which we live. She trained in one of Britain's last asylums and has travelled the world treating traumatised soldiers and civilians. Professor John Powell is interested in how far the digital world can help improve health and access to health care - from interventions for heart attacks to the treatment of depression. There are more than two hundred thousand health apps on the internet, but just how effective are they?
Producer: Katy Hickman.
More or Less: Behind the Stats - Post-Election Special
The results of the general election are in - but what do they mean? Did more young people vote than expected? Have we now got a more diverse parliament? How many extra votes would Jeremy Corbyn have needed to become Prime Minister - these are just some of the claims and questions that have been floating around on social media and in the press. Tim Harford and the team are going to analyse, add context and try and find answers.
Curious City - The Meaning Of Boystown: A Conversation About Chicago’s LGBTQ Neighborhood
A multi-generational panel talks about what the neighborhood means to them and where they see its future.
Curious City - The Meaning Of Boystown: A Conversation About Chicago’s LGBTQ Neighborhood
A multi-generational panel talks about what the neighborhood means to them and where they see its future.
#11. Greek Myth: Etruscan Tombs And Temples (Tuck, The Mysterious Etruscans)
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50 Things That Made the Modern Economy - Tax Havens
The economist Gabriel Zucman is the inventor of an ingenious way to estimate the amount of wealth hidden in the offshore banking system. In theory, if you add up the assets and liabilities reported by every global financial centre, the books should balance. But they don’t. Each individual centre tends to report more liabilities than assets. Zucman crunched the numbers and found that, globally, total liabilities were eight percent higher than total assets. That suggests at least eight percent of the world’s wealth is illegally unreported. Other methods have come up with even higher estimates. As Tim Harford explains, that makes the tax haven a very significant feature of the modern economy.
Editors: Richard Knight and Richard Vadon
Producer: Ben Crighton
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The Gist - Jon Ronson on Writing the Year’s Wildest Movie
The new movie Okja has pretty much everything. Car chases. Giant mutant pigs. A dystopian future. Jake Gyllenhaal with an outlandish moustache. A subtle social message. Tilda Swinton pretending to be Tony Blair. The movie is written by Korean director Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer) and returning guest Jon Ronson. Ronson takes us into the craft of writing the year’s wildest movie.
In the Spiel, why congressional comity is overrated.
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Cato Daily Podcast - The Federal Budgeting Process Is (Still) Broken (Again)
The federal budgeting process hasn't worked for more than a decade. How should it be fixed? Bloomberg's Megan J. McArdle suggests that Congress should focus on programs, not broad signaling, and get back to legislating.
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