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.
Latest episodes
Jun 22, 2020 • 6min
Margaret MacMillan: Rethinking International Cooperation
Historian MacMillan explains how our interdependence is essential to our condition.
Jun 22, 2020 • 7min
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 • 6min
Lady Hale: Rethinking The Courts
Brenda Hale asks what it means in the year 2020 to get a fair hearing.
Jun 22, 2020 • 6min
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 • 6min
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 • 5min
Mohammed Hanif: Rethinking Intimacy
Writer Hanif explores the role of intimacy in different human cultures.
Jun 22, 2020 • 8min
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 12, 2020 • 1min
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.
