Episodi

  • Nitrates, Nitrites and Meat: What Is the Cancer Link?
    Oct 5 2026
    Why curing agents help preserve meat, how nitrite chemistry raises a cancer concern, and why the established finding about processed meat does not yet explain rising bowel-cancer rates in younger adults. Programme style: Explainer
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    6 min
  • Alexandria’s Lost Library
    Sep 26 2026
    A collection, a scholarly community and an enduring influence: what Alexandria’s Library was, what the ancient fire accounts say, and what archaeology reveals about its uncertain ending. Programme style: Explainer
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    6 min
  • Who Can Decide for You?
    Sep 26 2026
    What a Lasting Power of Attorney does in England and Wales, why you might want one, and how its two versions differ — including when an attorney can act and why their authority ends at death. Programme style: Explainer
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    5 min
  • Why the American Civil War Began
    Sep 20 2026
    How slavery’s future became a struggle over political power, why Lincoln’s election prompted secession, and how that crisis became war at Fort Sumter. Programme style: Explainer
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    5 min
  • The Apprenticeship Gap
    Sep 20 2026
    Britain’s traditional apprenticeships weakened as industrial employment and the arrangements supporting employer training eroded. Rebuilding their appeal means offering more than a familiar name: paid work, protected teaching, recognised skills and worthwhile opportunities afterwards. Programme style: Story-led documentary
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    20 min
  • What Were the Hanging Gardens?
    Sep 16 2026
    A garden built upwards: later ancient writers describe terraces and galleries carrying deep soil and large trees, supplied by lifted river water. Their accounts offer a vivid physical picture, while the identification at Babylon—or possibly Nineveh—remains unresolved. Programme style: Explainer
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    5 min
  • Reform’s £72 Million: Who Can Give, and How Much?
    Sep 16 2026
    Reform’s reported donations expose a central choice in British democracy: checking who funds a party does not limit how much powerfully concentrated funding the rules allow. Programme style: Explainer
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    6 min
  • What Has Britain Sanctioned Over Israel and the West Bank?
    Sep 12 2026
    The UK’s 8 September 2026 package combined immediate sanctions on five people with plans to restrict settlement-linked commerce. What do those measures do, and why has the Government connected violence, settlement expansion and economic activity? Programme style: Explainer
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    6 min