Episode summary: The co-op that’s saving land, a food culture and villages at risk of being abandoned. In Benevento, Italy, Lentamente is also giving former convicts a future through farms and food. Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

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Episode summary: Is fashion really the second most polluting industry after oil and does it account for 10% of greenhouse gas emissions? Sustainable fashion journalist Alden Wicker does some fashion fact checking with Adam Fleming, presenter of BBC podcast and Radio 4 programme Antisocial. And repor...

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Episode summary: Outliers, Revisited

Episode summary: How did we get to a point where “search” is failing us?

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Episode summary: Pakistan is battling a huge natural disaster as a result of heavy monsoon rains. It’s been widely reported that a third of the country is under water. But can that really be the case? Featuring the BBC’s correspondent in Pakistan Pumza Fihlani and Dr Simon Cook, a senior lecturer in...

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Episode summary: He dreams in 10 languages—how about you?

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Episode summary: Guano Gold Rush and the Future of Fertilizer - September 9, 1804

Episode summary: Treetop antennas, a witness from history and a dialogue with a loudspeaker - Josie Long presents short radio docs and adventures in sound inspired by broadcasts into the ether. From the forests of North Carolina, USA to the city of Kyiv, Ukraine - two ham radio enthusiasts seek each...

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Episode summary: Elizabeth teaches Roman about which crimes the Justice Department is interested in as described in the Mar-a-Lago search warrant

Episode summary: Survival of the City: Laurie Taylor talks to Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University and author of a study examining the future of urban life at a time when the pandemic has exposed failures of governance. Whilst cities have been engines f...

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