RAAC and Ruin
Between the 1950s and 1990s the material known as RAAC, Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete, was used mostly in flat roofing, but also in floors and walls. It offered a cheaper alternative to stand...
1 Feb 28min
The Price of Meat
Buy a pack of beef in the supermarket and you’ll find it’s increased in price by 52% in five years. Try and trade down to some chicken and you’ll find it’s nearly doubled in just two years. Make a p...
25 Jan 28min
Inside ARIA
ARIA is the UK government’s bold new bet on science and technology. Its mission? To chase breakthroughs so radical they could spawn trillion-pound industries and reshape everyday life.The Advanced Res...
18 Jan 28min
Highways to Hell
Alex Forsyth emerges from traffic jam Britain to ask why roadworks take so long and cause so much disruption to our daily lives. Are there better ways to manage the necessary maintenance of our roads ...
4 Jan 28min
Left Out: the political radicalisation of young women - and the silence surrounding it
At the 2024 general election, something remarkable happened: young voters broke away from the political mainstream, but in opposite directions. Young men moved to the right, while young women swung ju...
21 Dec 202528min
Are You Ready?
We face an increasing range of threats as a nation – from climate change to pandemics and artificial intelligence – and yet, emergency preparedness is seen as a thing of the past that belonged to an e...
7 Dec 202528min
Four Months in Gaza
A raw and intimate perspective on the terror, anger, and hope of living through war.As bombs hit ever closer to her home in central Gaza, Hanya Aljamal spots her elderly neighbour tending to his garde...
30 Nov 202527min
Playing Spies
The words "spy ring" conjure up images straight from the enigmatic literary worlds of John le Carre and Graham Greene. But the recent prosecutions of a group of Bulgarians and the arsonists who set f...
30 Nov 202527min
