EP23: Parag Khanna on migration, future movements and predicting the reasons why
Migration is a topic at the top of many different agendas but why are people moving and what can we learn from history to map out possible futures? Peter discusses this and more with Parag Khanna, fou...
31 Okt 202142min
EP22: The environmental footprint of food choices with Sarah Briddle
When we choose what we eat it can have a huge impact on our environmental footprint. Author Sarah Briddle has written one of the books of the year, Food and Climate Change Without the Hot Air: Change...
24 Okt 202129min
EP21: Refugees, remittance and the potential for ideological change with Pennsylvania State University's Professor Joseph Wright
Refugees and migrants take their path for many different reasons one of which is economic. How does the money they send back to their homes - remittance - change their families, communities and even g...
17 Okt 202140min
EP20: James Bond - the real world of MI6, espionage and the fact in the fiction
The 25th Bond film is in cinemas now and in this episode of I've Been Thinking with Peter Frankopan he digs into the real life world of espionage, counter terrorism and the life of Bond creator Ian Fl...
14 Okt 202135min
EP19: The economics of kidnapping with Professor Anja Shortland
You've taken a hostage, but what are they worth? 97.5% of all hostages who are taken for ransom are returned but pricing is as important a factor as the negotiating. In this episode of I've Been Thi...
10 Okt 202136min
EP18: Alexei Navalny - A thorn in Putin's side, but is he Russia's great hope?
He's been the face of opposition politic in Russia for sometime but who is Alexei Navalny? What are his goals? What tools does he wield to achieve them? How do the Kremlin head him off? In order to ...
3 Okt 202147min
EP16: China Unbound: A New World Disorder with journalist and author Joanna Chiu
China Unbound: A New World Disorder, journalist Joanna Chiu takes her experience of over a decade examining China's expansion and puts pen to paper to give the reader a view of it's economic power, it...
26 Sep 202143min
