Episode summary: The unemployment rate in the U.S. is just 3.6%. Many people think we are at, or near, full employment. For the first time in a long while, power is shifting toward workers.

Episode summary: Come di consueto, nella prima parte del nostro programma, discuteremo di avvenimenti attuali. Inizieremo commentando i risultati delle elezioni per il parlamento europeo. Poi, continueremo con la raccomandazione a non…

Episode summary: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of Grant’s presidency on Americans in the years after the Civil War in which he, with Lincoln, had led the Union Army to victory. His predecessor, Andrew Johnson, was prepared to let the Southern States decide for themselves which rights to...

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Episode summary: We ask whether the UK constitution is cracking up - and if so, where’s the breakpoint going to come? Is Brexit at the heart of the current crisis or does it go deeper than that? What’s the role of the Supreme Court? And the Queen? Could the Bank of England play a part? And where doe...

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Episode summary: Mexico City is in a water crisis. Despite rains and floods, it is running out of drinking water. To solve the scarcity issue, the city began piping water in from far away as well as from aquifer below ground, creating yet another problem: the city began to sink as the moisture was s...

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Episode summary: Moby had already put out four studio albums when Play was released in 1999. He was solidly into his 30s, playing gigs in record stores and thinking about a career-change. But Play, against all expectations, started selling. Then it started selling out. There was champagne, then vodk...

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Episode summary: Looking for love online, the desire lines we walk to a lover’s house and the untethering of a breast-feeding baby from its mother - Josie Long presents short documentaries and adventures in sound about being drawn towards the ones we love. Desire Lines Featuring Laura Barton The Rea...

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Episode summary: How collecting data about the dead led the famous nurse to promote better sanitation.

Episode summary: David Goldstein decides to copy Cambridge Analytica and run an experiment on actual voters during the 2017 Alabama special election.

Episode summary: Sound can have serious impacts on our health and wellbeing. And there’s no better place to think about health than hospitals. According to Joel Beckerman, sound designer and composer at Man Made Music: “Hospitals are horrible places to get better.” Hospitals can be bad for your heal...

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