The Future Will Be Synthesised - Episode 2

Deepfakes for disinformation

• 14 mins

The Future Will Be Synthesised - Episode 3

Threat to democracy?

• 15 mins

The Future Will Be Synthesised - Episode 4

Art and business

• 15 mins

The Future Will Be Synthesised - Episode 5

Henry Ajder examines our synthetic future - starting with deepfake origins in pornography

• 14 mins

Bound to the Mast

Can ‘no’ mean ‘yes’ in mental health?

• 29 mins

The Dancer and Her Shoe Maker

The story of two people connected by a ballet shoe.

• 29 mins

London on the Line

Ten years after the 2012 Olympics why is London in crisis and what can be done about it?

• 28 mins

Ceausescu's Children

Adopted from an orphanage in Romania, Ionica Adriana returns to discover her past.

• 29 mins

Schools Apart

How schools can help students from minority backgrounds feel integrated in modern Britain

• 28 mins

Evacuated to Russia

Has Russia rescued a million Ukrainian refugees? Or deported them in another war crime?

• 29 mins

Welcome to Rwanda

Is Rwanda a devlopment model for the rest of Africa, or an autocratic and ruthless state?

• 38 mins

Generation Games

From Pong to Pokémon, what have video games ever done for us? Keza MacDonald finds out.

• 57 mins

Inheritors of partition

Kavita Puri marks the 75th anniversary of the division of the Indian subcontinent

• 43 mins

Leeds: Life in the Bus Lane

Rima Ahmed gets the bus into Leeds to find out why its public transport is so maligned.

• 28 mins

Recalculating Art

Why does art go up in value when a man signs it, but when a woman signs it, it goes down?

• 29 mins

Bhopal - 1. A Friend Dies

The story of Rajkumar Keswani, the man who foretold the world's worst industrial accident.

• 15 mins

Bhopal - 2. The Smell of Grass

The story of Rajkumar Keswani, the man who foretold the world's worst industrial accident.

• 14 mins

Bhopal - 3. Friendly Business

The story of Rajkumar Keswani, the man who foretold the world's worst industrial accident.

• 14 mins

Bhopal - 4. Bhopal on the Brink of Disaster

The story of Rajkumar Keswani, the man who foretold the worlds worst industrial accident

• 14 mins

Bhopal - 5. The Fatal Night

The story of Rajkumar Keswani, the man who foretold the world's worst industrial accident.

• 15 mins

The Dark Side of Direct Sales

Are workers being exploited by practices within some direct sales firms?

• 37 mins

Will the US and China go to war over Taiwan?

How likely is it that the current tensions over Taiwan will end in military conflict?

• 29 mins

The Scramble for Rare Earths - 1. The Magnificent 17

Misha Glenny discovers why the future of the world depends on rare earth metals.

• 15 mins

The Scramble for Rare Earths - 2. The Hidden Paradox

Misha Glenny on why mining rare earth materials could either help or harm the environment

• 14 mins

The Scramble for Rare Earths - 3. The Super Magnets

Misha Glenny discovers how neodymium magnets will help power the green transition.

• 14 mins

The Scramble for Rare Earths - 4. The EU's Dependency on China

Misha Glenny asks whether the EU can find other ways of satisfying its rare earth demand.

• 14 mins

The Scramble for Rare Earths - 5. The Great New Game

Misha Glenny hears how Ukraine is sitting on huge amounts of rare earth minerals.

• 15 mins

Ugandan Asians: The Reckoning

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown takes a fresh look at the story of the Ugandan Asian expulsion.

• 29 mins

The Other Black Door

How a group of organisations in one Westminster building affected a decade of UK politics.

• 29 mins

Desert Island Discoveries - Lauren Laverne and Vick Hope

Lauren Laverne shares handpicked gems from the back-catalogue with Vick Hope from Radio 1

• 31 mins