Crossing Channels
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Crossing Channels

by Bennett School of Public Policy & Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse

Monthly podcast series produced by the Bennett School of Public Policy (University of Cambridge) and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (Toulouse School of Economics) to give interdisciplinary answers to today's challenging questions. Hosted by Richard Westcott (former BBC journalist and now the communications director for Cambridge University Health Partners and the Cambridge Biomedical Campus) with guest experts from both universities. Subscribe to the Crossing Channels podcast feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1841488.rss & download each episode at the start of the month.

46 episodes
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1
What can't money buy?
27:39 Mar 9, 2026
2
Can we make climate policy fair and effective?
32:19 Jan 29, 2026
3
Is intellectual capital the key to future prosperity?
30:58 Nov 30, 2025
4
What really drives inequality?
31:41 Nov 3, 2025
5
Are universities ready for the age of AI?
31:14 Oct 5, 2025
6
How does migration change our world?
26:59 Aug 4, 2025
7
What is the value of speaking other languages?
32:40 Jul 14, 2025
8
Why do we choose what we choose?
30:26 May 5, 2025
9
How can we make food that is good for health, societies, the planet and the economy?
29:04 Apr 7, 2025
10
Can Europe ever catch up to the US in technology?
31:26 Mar 3, 2025
11
How can green finance drive the clean transition?
25:31 Feb 12, 2025
12
How are data and algorithms impacting our lives?
30:55 Jan 6, 2025
13
Is the world becoming less democratic?
30:27 Dec 2, 2024
14
What is happening to young people’s mental health?
26:56 Nov 3, 2024
15
Does prison work?
28:41 Oct 7, 2024
16
Should there be a compulsory retirement age for society's leaders?
39:28 Jun 30, 2024
17
Who pays the price of colonialism today?
30:06 Jun 3, 2024
18
What's the point of a protest?
23:07 May 6, 2024
19
Can governments regulate AI without stifling innovation?
34:21 Mar 31, 2024
20
Why are women disadvantaged in the workplace?
31:27 Mar 1, 2024
21
Can economic growth and sustainability coexist?
36:50 Feb 4, 2024
22
How can universal basic infrastructure support growth?
28:51 Jan 1, 2024
23
Can technology rescue ailing health services?
35:11 Dec 2, 2023
24
The world’s problems are interdisciplinary – why is academic research so siloed?
33:07 Nov 12, 2023
25
How big a problem is short-termism in government?
28:08 Sep 28, 2023
26
What is the future of religion?
35:05 Jun 2, 2023
27
Are countries becoming harder to govern?
33:42 May 1, 2023
28
Are emerging technologies more hype than reality?
36:43 Apr 3, 2023
29
Should children have the right to vote?
32:24 Mar 5, 2023
30
Is technology changing our behaviour?
30:02 Feb 5, 2023
31
Why are stories important for society?
31:46 Jan 20, 2023
32
Ukraine war - how can academics apply their expertise?
36:33 Dec 13, 2022
33
How much do people care about inequality?
29:06 Dec 5, 2022
34
Wellbeing at work - whose job is it to fix it?
31:18 Oct 30, 2022
35
Has digital technology made us better off?
30:35 Oct 2, 2022
36
What can political leaders learn from history?
30:21 Jun 29, 2022
37
How might policy steer us towards better decision-making?
30:46 May 30, 2022
38
Can democratic political leaders ever meet our expectations?
30:44 May 2, 2022
39
Is it the government's job to make us happy?
28:22 Apr 3, 2022
40
Ukraine invasion: context, consequences and the information war
37:30 Mar 8, 2022
41
Will Levelling Up Work?
30:43 Feb 27, 2022
42
Broadband before bridges: can digital technologies leapfrog the obstacles to development?
23:20 Jan 28, 2022
43
Can artificial intelligence be ethical?
29:19 Jan 2, 2022
44
What is nature's role in the economy?
29:49 Nov 29, 2021
45
Why has it become so hard to run government? The role of civil servants and decision-making in society today.
30:46 Oct 31, 2021
46
Launching Crossing Channels
4:50 Oct 24, 2021
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