Welcome Money
Between the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989 and the policy's hastily enforced end on 29 December 1989, East German citizens claimed an estimated four billion Deutschmarks in so-called ‘Begr...
8 Nov 201928min
Into the Manosphere
Young men are facing a crisis of masculinity. To deal with it, they have options - the manosphere, a mainly online world where the challenges facing 21st century men are exclusively the fault of women...
5 Nov 201937min
The Hand Detectives
“At the end of the day, with DNA, we have difficulty in the forensic arena of separating identical twins, we can do it with a hand no problem at all.” - Professor Dame Sue BlackIn 2006 the Metropolita...
29 Okt 201928min
Middlesbrough, Money and Me
Steph McGovern returns to her home town of Middlesbrough to ask why we aren’t better equipped to deal with the practical maths that we need to work out phone contracts, energy tariffs and any number o...
25 Okt 201928min
Make Me a Programme
Can a robot host a radio show? Georgia Lewis-Anderson is a conversation designer for voice technology, writing answers to the more human questions that people ask voice assistants like 'what's your fa...
18 Okt 201928min
Russell Kane's Right to Buy
The comedian Russell Kane traces his success back to the day his Dad bought his council house in Enfield in the 80s. Now, in 2019, he wrestles with the impact of the Thatcher policy which allowed that...
15 Okt 201928min
The Corrections: The Carbonara Case
The Corrections re-visits four news stories which left the public with an incomplete picture of what really happened.In August 2017, The Times published a piece with the headline ‘Christian child forc...
11 Okt 201942min
Shappi Khorsandi Gets Organised
Shappi Khorsandi’s life is disorganised. A single mother of two and a stand-up comedian and writer, Shappi is busy. She doesn’t know what money is coming into or out of her account, her love of charit...
8 Okt 201928min
