Don't Look Up
Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam McKay tells us how angst about climate change compelled him to make Don't Look Up, an epic comedy disaster movie about humanity's failure to tackle an existential threat. ...
4 Mar 202228min
Inflation - is it back to stay?
As the world emerges from COVID, economies are revving back to life - but so is something that many parts of the world have not seen much of for decades - inflation. So what is inflation and why has...
17 Feb 202224min
A Paris Agreement for plastics
Do we need a global treaty to tackle plastics pollution, similar to the one on climate change. Campaigners and a growing number of governments and businesses say we do. Ahead of a United Nations Envir...
11 Feb 202224min
COVID and cancer: how the pandemic created another health time bomb
COVID-19 paralysed healthcare services around the world and meant many routine procedures were cancelled or delayed. That has taken a heavy toll on cancer patients. How big is the problem, what needs ...
3 Feb 202232min
What to expect from 2022 - what we learned at the Davos Agenda
While COVID prevented the annual Davos meeting in the Alps for a second year, leaders from governments, business, academia and civil society met online at the Davos Agenda to discuss the world's bigge...
26 Jan 202222min
How does Earth look from space? 'Like one big spaceship' - astronaut Matthias Maurer on Radio Davos
Speaking live from the International Space Station, Matthias Maurer gives a fascinating glimpse of what it's like to spend months in orbit - what kind of research he's carrying out - and how the exper...
21 Jan 202219min
COVID-19: Is the end in sight?
Dr Anthony Fauci and other experts tell us why Omicron might - but only might - mean we are in the end-game in the fight against COVID. Alongside him at the Davos Agenda session 'COVID-19 - What's Nex...
18 Jan 202248min
Risks on Earth, in space and in the metaverse - the Global Risks Report 2022
Climate change is the number one risk we face as a species, according to the World Economic Forum's annual Global Risks Report. We look at what a 'disorderly transition' to net-zero might look like, a...
14 Jan 202229min
