Analysis

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Programme examining the ideas and forces which shape public policy in Britain and abroad, presented by distinguished writers, journalists and academics.

Recent Episodes
  • The low pay puzzle
    Mar 25, 2024 – 29:01
  • How real is the existential threat from AI?
    Mar 18, 2024 – 29:06
  • What would Isambard Kingdom Brunel have done?
    Mar 11, 2024 – 28:59
  • Power Drive
    Mar 4, 2024 – 28:37
  • How to cure the small town blues
    Feb 26, 2024 – 28:33
  • How to Dismantle a Democracy
    Feb 19, 2024 – 28:53
  • What is 'British culture'?
    Feb 12, 2024 – 28:38
  • Has the family had its day?
    Feb 5, 2024 – 28:51
  • What's the future of nudge?
    Nov 20, 2023 – 28:46
  • Can reading really improve your life?
    Nov 13, 2023 – 30:01
  • Can the UK afford a mental health crisis?
    Nov 6, 2023 – 28:17
  • France: a constitutional crisis in the making
    Oct 30, 2023 – 29:03
  • What on earth is the national interest?
    Oct 23, 2023 – 28:14
  • What makes a good school?
    Oct 16, 2023 – 29:22
  • How can we grow the UK economy?
    Oct 9, 2023 – 28:58
  • The Democratic Brain
    Oct 2, 2023 – 28:16
  • How far should reparative justice go?
    Aug 1, 2023 – 29:04
  • Is there a new elite?
    Jul 17, 2023 – 28:40
  • Why are so many workers on strike?
    Jul 10, 2023 – 28:17
  • Does work have to be miserable?
    Jul 3, 2023 – 28:25
  • Do single people get a raw deal?
    Jun 26, 2023 – 28:55
  • What’s changing about childbirth?
    Jun 19, 2023 – 29:06
  • What are companies for?
    Jun 12, 2023 – 27:30
  • Do Boycotts Work?
    Jun 5, 2023 – 28:04
  • We know how to stop knife crime, so why don’t we do it?
    May 29, 2023 – 27:50
  • Lessons from the vaccine task force
    Apr 3, 2023 – 29:04
  • Can the Met police change?
    Mar 27, 2023 – 29:05
  • Is Britain exceptional?
    Mar 20, 2023 – 28:49
  • King Charles' Challenge
    Mar 13, 2023 – 28:26
  • Does it matter who our MPs are?
    Mar 6, 2023 – 28:42
  • The death of globalisation?
    Feb 27, 2023 – 27:51
  • From Brother to Other
    Feb 20, 2023 – 29:37
  • Has economic crisis put net-zero plans on the backburner?
    Feb 13, 2023 – 28:37
  • Blaenau Ffestiniog and the Foundational Economy
    Feb 6, 2023 – 28:19
  • Can we ever really tackle rising public spending?
    Nov 21, 2022 – 28:59
  • Why do we assume women care?
    Nov 14, 2022 – 28:56
  • Economic Growth - can we ever have enough?
    Nov 7, 2022 – 28:36
  • Is 'Political Blackness' gone for good?
    Oct 31, 2022 – 27:41
  • Can Effective Altruism really change the world?
    Oct 24, 2022 – 28:28
  • How Xi Jinping did it
    Oct 17, 2022 – 29:32
  • Is ethical surrogacy possible?
    Oct 10, 2022 – 28:09
  • What's the point of street protest?
    Oct 3, 2022 – 28:11
  • Addiction in the age of the metaverse
    Jul 25, 2022 – 29:10
  • Is the UK the new sick man of Europe?
    Jul 18, 2022 – 28:57
  • What is childcare for?
    Jul 11, 2022 – 29:00
  • Beyond the cost of living crisis
    Jul 4, 2022 – 28:26
  • Cashing in on the green rush
    Jun 27, 2022 – 28:18
  • Germany and Russia: It's Complicated
    Jun 20, 2022 – 29:08
  • The Advertising Trap
    Jun 13, 2022 – 27:29
  • Can Nationalism be a Force for Good?
    Jun 6, 2022 – 27:37
Recent Reviews
  • Zydkihevg
    This is not journalism
    If you prefer your podcasts to be unbiased without a blatant political agenda, you need to look somewhere else.
  • steve orcas
    Population simplifier
    I thought the program on falling birth rates failed to explore benefits of falling birth rates and eventually population.
  • Nicolas Bar
    Biased.
    I downloaded this podcast for analysis instead I got indoctrination and “look at all the reasons why I am right”! Episodes are often less analysis and more debate, in most cases a one-sided one. Prime example the episode on cancel culture. Unfollowed.
  • TL2456712477
    Sadly declining
    I just listened to Humans vs the Planet by Lucy Proctor in which she seemed completely unable to cope with information that made her uncomfortable and resorted to name-calling without any real attempt to dismiss arguments intellectually. Rather sad for the BBC, but has long been accused of having an anti-environmental slant.
  • Glenn Danzig II
    The clearest the British can speak
    and I gain a lot of insight from it.
  • Radical Linguist
    Shorter work week
    Real effort both to go in-depth and to cast a wide net (for information).
  • August Consumer
    Well done
    Very interesting presentations of valuable topics in society. I appreciate Mr. Paul Johnson’s journalism in the “The Forgotten Half” alternatives regarding higher education. Here in the USA higher education is a “big business”. Thank you all at “Analysis”, staff work and production work well done.
  • JP3000SE
    An Awesome Podcast!!
    Such an informative podcast that really explains what is going on.
  • arron2234324
    Lovely show
    In depth explorations — thoughtful and balance. Great work!
  • NoHoDad
    Brilliant and insightful
    ANALYSIS is a wonderful deep look inside the news. A meaningful part of my podcast week.
  • saperlo
    Leftie BBC propaganda again
    Just listened to The War for Normal It's supposed to be about defining the middle ground and how to regain that. I listened as someone who feels alienated by the continual media opposition to anything that it considered conservative. All we get it the more sophisticated dissection of the usual political tropes from the BBC They have the bare-faced cheek to outline all the mechanisms for political manipulation and then aim their criticism at conservatives, when all the time the entire news coverage is doing this to any conservative political position. This depiction is so contrary to my experience that it's veging into Orwellian doublethink. It's so utterly hypocritical it beggars belief. Really, the takeover by the left to the BBC is now so complete that you cannot trust anything they produce. Myself, I have cancelled my BBC licence and stopped listening to anything they produce. If you are remotely conservative, I'd recommend doing the same. Let them preach to their echo chamber and we can just turn up at the election again and keep voting accordingly.
  • Dante1212
    Trump bashing
    If you enjoy bashing our President, you’ll like it.
  • BeezerH
    Timely topics
    Documentary-like format with insight from high profile guests. Well done.
  • d6nn
    women's bias
    haapen to be a yank , but will say bloody great 7 others.
  • hisprof
    Random and amazing
    The first episode I heard was on bamboo. Bamboo? Since then I have listened to lectures on bubbles, meat and good and evil etc. These lectures are amazing. Thanks, Radio 4.
  • hanque
    listen
    and be enlightened
  • nacho_elcanario
    Fantastic
    simply put it is excellent! Thanks!
  • John E. Riutta
    Always Interesting
    Not only has Analysis brought me up to speed on topics of great interest to me, it has also brought my attention to those of which I may have not previously heard or which I did but knew little at the time. A truly all-around well done podcast.
  • Mightyswami
    Common Sense
    It makes little difference what we as citizens may 'believe' when the scientific evidence provides empirical data via the isotoepes of atmospheric gases of the planet that attest via unimpeachable evidence. It boils down to an easily umderstood allegory. First ask yourself what an Ostrich sees when it buries its head in the sand. A simple metaphor. Then ask can the human species afford to continue on a path that will clearly result in havoc, pain and catasphe for all mankind due to an unwillingness to put aside the willful ignorance of whatever group when contrasted with the overall survivability of the race in an ecosytem that will become untenable and will do so not gradually but in an exponential tipping point when the forces that govern large systems of scale surpass the capacity of the planetary evironment to provide the balance of conditions which make life possible in that system. It will enter into a realm descibed by 'Catastrophe Theory' when negative input overwhelms Nature's capciyy to self regulate therby exposing all human life to imminent extinction if not super radical degradation. Political, economic and social norms will be rapidly destroyed when It passes that point. I like to use as an example the Haline (cold) current that is the twin if you will of the gulf stream. It exists on the floor of the Atlantic and the same quantum electrodynamic force regulating it does likewise the gulf stream current. The amount of melt produced by the ever increasing Greenland Ice Sheet decay sinks to the floor of the ocean and will when it has sufficiently grown cut the Haline Current therby affecting the gulf stream current. At that point Europe will be drawn into an inexorable freeze due to this massive interference. The consequences will be beyond human imagining. Sadly even if we approched this challenge with the lack of force neccesary to reverse it today we may well have missed our physical window of opportunity and the disater will have become a fait accompli. There is simply no quater that may be given to the aquiescence to pander to the ignorance of those few intransigents. Mankind will act promptly or suffer the unambiguous result inherent in the immutable physical laws governing Nature itself and by definition "ourselves" JGW Lesko; poet/inventor Sunday, June 6th, 2010 at 8:40 p.m. Eastern Time. N. Y. C. , N. Y.
  • Zerstuckelung
    In depth...
    Well researched, incisive reporting on a broad range of topics. This is one of Radio 4’s better offerings on iTunes.
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