Confronting Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment at work has become “normalised” according to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. A recent UK survey by polling company ComRes found that half of women and a fifth of men have e...
26 Apr 201828min
The Economic Impact of America's Opioid Epidemic
Ohio is one of the worst hit US states for opioid addiction rates and deaths. Huge numbers of people have dropped out of the workforce and employers say they struggle to recruit the people they need. ...
12 Apr 201828min
Ireland's Brexit Challenge
Ireland’s economy is hugely interlinked with its next-door neighbour, the UK, in everything from energy to transport to finance. Can those links be kept after the UK leaves the EU, or will Irish busin...
9 Apr 201826min
The Global Trade Referee
The WTO has facilitated global trade since the 1990s but is now under threat. Ever since he was elected, US President Donald Trump has been critical of the World Trade Organisation, which he has de...
7 Apr 201827min
Kenya's Basic Income Experiment
What happens if you give every adult in a village $22 a month, no strings attached, for 12 years? In rural Kenya, researchers are trying to find out. They're conducting the world's largest study of 'u...
31 Mars 201826min
Belarus' Tractor Town
The vast Minsk Tractor Works in Belarus was famed all over the Soviet Union. And it's still making tractors. Raging capitalism in the 1990s closed down hundreds of state-owned factories. But Belarus k...
24 Mars 201827min
The Fish Farming Revolution
By 2050 the world needs to produce 70% more food and we need to do so using fewer resources and with less damage to the environment. Peter Morgan travels to Skjervoy in Norway to find out how technolo...
10 Mars 201826min
Can Frankfurt become Europe’s new financial capital?
A small German city with a population of under a million has big ambitions. It wants to beat Paris to the top spot of financial centre of Europe. But can the city of Frankfurt attract the internationa...
3 Mars 201826min
