Rethink

Professor Ben Ansell asks some of the world's sharpest minds about the latest thinking, and what it might mean for policy and society.

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Episodes

Margaret MacMillan: Rethinking International Cooperation

Historian MacMillan explains how our interdependence is essential to our condition.

Jun 22, 2020•6 min

Jarvis Cocker: Rethinking an Environmental Revolution

Musician Cocker asks if the chirrup of the Hen Harrier will be enough to awake in us a new consciousness of our duty as stewards of the Earth

Jun 22, 2020•7 min

Lady Hale: Rethinking The Courts

Brenda Hale asks what it means in the year 2020 to get a fair hearing.

Jun 22, 2020•6 min

Lord Peter Hennessy: Rethinking Democracy

The historian Peter Hennessy asks what we might learn from the experience of another hinge moment: 1945, when an exhausted but victorious Britain launched a new social contract.

Jun 22, 2020•6 min

Amanda Levete: Rethinking How We Live

Stirling Prize-winning architect Levete talks about reconciling technology with nature and a public architecture which prioritises wellbeing over efficiency.

Jun 22, 2020•6 min

Mohammed Hanif: Rethinking Intimacy

Writer Hanif explores the role of intimacy in different human cultures.

Jun 22, 2020•5 min

Pope Francis: Rethinking Poverty

Pope Francis explains why he sees Covid-19 as a potential turning point in history. Taken from a longer interview with Austen Ivereigh and read by Joseph Balderrama. Photo credit: Reuters.

Jun 22, 2020•8 min

Welcome to Rethink

How the world should change after the coronavirus pandemic. Leading thinkers from across the globe give us their route maps to a better tomorrow.

Jun 12, 2020•1 min

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