Episodes
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| 20071228 | Stephen Sackur asks BBC correspondents to forecast the news stories for the year ahead. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | |||
| 20071228 | 20071229 (R4) | Stephen Sackur asks BBC correspondents to forecast the news stories for the year ahead. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | ||
| 20090102 | What impact will an Obama Presidency have on America and the wider world in 2009? Will he and a powerful Russian President, Vladimir Putin, get along? And how will he and other leaders deal with the continuing fall out from the financial and economic crisis?
Stephen Sackur is joined by some of the BBC's top correspondents as they give their predictions about what will shape our world next year.
Stephen Sackur asks BBC correspondents to forecast the news stories for the year ahead. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | |||
| 20090102 | 20090103 (R4) | What impact will an Obama Presidency have on America and the wider world in 2009? Will he and a powerful Russian President, Vladimir Putin, get along? And how will he and other leaders deal with the continuing fall out from the financial and economic crisis?
Stephen Sackur is joined by some of the BBC's top correspondents as they give their predictions about what will shape our world next year.
Stephen Sackur asks BBC correspondents to forecast the news stories for the year ahead. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | ||
| 20100101 | Stephen Sackur is joined by some of the BBC's top correspondents to give their predictions about what will shape our world in the year ahead. Will the global economy turn the corner and rejoin the path to growth? Will the US and its allies defeat the Taleban in Afghanistan or will they pull out? And will China start to assert its new-found power across Asia?
Stephen Sackur asks BBC correspondents to forecast the news stories for the year ahead. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | |||
| 20100101 | 20100102 (R4) | Stephen Sackur is joined by some of the BBC's top correspondents to give their predictions about what will shape our world in the year ahead. Will the global economy turn the corner and rejoin the path to growth? Will the US and its allies defeat the Taleban in Afghanistan or will they pull out? And will China start to assert its new-found power across Asia?
Stephen Sackur asks BBC correspondents to forecast the news stories for the year ahead. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | ||
| 20101231 | 20110101 (R4) | For many 2011 will be a year of austerity but will the tough economic medicine work or are we set for further financial turmoil and public disorder? The Euro will probably survive but don't put your mortgage on it. After ten years of war in Afghanistan, British and American troops will begin to withdraw: is it the beginning of the end? Twitter is five years old but where is our social media taking us and in sport, who will triumph in the Cricket and Rugby World cups? Stephen Sackur is joined by some of the BBC's top correspondents as they predict the events and people who'll shape our world in 2011. Radio 4 listeners can have their say on next year's big stories by joining the 'Listeners Look Ahead' with Stephen in the chair at two o'clock after the programme is repeated on Saturday, 1 January. Producer: Jim Frank. The BBC's top correspondents give their predictions about what will shape the news in 2011 BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | ||
| 20111230 | The turmoil on the world's economic markets was anticipated but no-one predicted the revolution which swept the Middle East in the so-called Arab Spring. So what is likely to happen in 2012?
Owen Bennett Jones chairs a discussion with the BBC's special correspondent Lyse Doucet, North America Editor Mark Mardell, Newsnight's Economics Editor Paul Mason and diplomatic correspondent James Robbins.
Paul Mason was right about one thing last year, anticipating the problems faced by the Eurozone. Lyse Doucet can lay claim to have predicted the death of Osama bin Laden but she was one year out - she thought it would happen in 2010 and failed to mention it in last year's programme. Mark Mardell also had his eye on the Euro and will, no doubt, have something to say about America's concerns about the global effect of the European crisis in 1012. James Robbins correctly predicted anger against austerity cuts in those countries worst hit but he was wrong about Italy where he thought prime minister 'Silvio Berlusconi would sail serenely on'.
Join our panel as they polish up their crystal ball and try to identify the key trends in a fast-moving world.
Producer Mark Savage.
The BBC's leading foreign correspondents predict what is likely to be in the news in 2012. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | |||
| 20111230 | 20111231 (R4) | The turmoil on the world's economic markets was anticipated but no-one predicted the revolution which swept the Middle East in the so-called Arab Spring. So what is likely to happen in 2012?
Owen Bennett Jones chairs a discussion with the BBC's special correspondent Lyse Doucet, North America Editor Mark Mardell, Newsnight's Economics Editor Paul Mason and diplomatic correspondent James Robbins.
Paul Mason was right about one thing last year, anticipating the problems faced by the Eurozone. Lyse Doucet can lay claim to have predicted the death of Osama bin Laden but she was one year out - she thought it would happen in 2010 and failed to mention it in last year's programme. Mark Mardell also had his eye on the Euro and will, no doubt, have something to say about America's concerns about the global effect of the European crisis in 1012. James Robbins correctly predicted anger against austerity cuts in those countries worst hit but he was wrong about Italy where he thought prime minister 'Silvio Berlusconi would sail serenely on'.
Join our panel as they polish up their crystal ball and try to identify the key trends in a fast-moving world.
Producer Mark Savage.
The BBC's leading foreign correspondents predict what is likely to be in the news in 2012. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | ||
| 20121228 | 20121229 (R4) | Owen Bennett-Jones is joined by some of the BBC's top correspondents as they give their predictions about what will shape our world next year. Will the global economy recover? How will the Arab Spring play out across the Middle East - and how will the conflict in Syria be resolved? Will Burma and North Korea continue to come out of the cold? And will a re-elected Barack Obama play a more assertive role in global affairs? Join Owen and his guests as they gaze into their crystal balls - and he rates their predictions from last year's look ahead. Producer: Linda Pressly. The BBC's top correspondents give their predictions about what will shape the news in 2013 BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead Owen Bennett-Jones is joined by some of the BBC's top correspondents as they give their predictions about what will shape our world next year. Will the global economy recover? How will the Arab Spring play out across the Middle East - and how will the conflict in Syria be resolved? Will Burma and North Korea continue to come out of the cold? And will a re-elected Barack Obama play a more assertive role in global affairs? Join Owen and his guests as they gaze into their crystal balls - and he rates their predictions from last year's look ahead. Producer: Linda Pressly. The BBC's top correspondents give their predictions about what will shape the news in 2013 BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | ||
| 20231229 | 20231230 (R4) | BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | ||
| Looking Ahead to 2017 | 20161230 | Owen Bennett-Jones is joined by a group of senior BBC journalists to forecast what is likely to happen over the coming year. Last time they got together they were firmly predicting that Marco Rubio would become the Republican presidential candidate - and that Britain was likely to vote to stay in the EU. So as the saying goes, making predictions is a tricky business...especially about the future. Yet our experts can at least lay out the parameters for what is likely to happen in the spheres of geopolitics, economics and society more widely - and give us essential tips on what and who to look out for in 2017.
The BBC's senior journalists forecast what is likely to happen over the coming year. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | ||
| Looking Ahead to 2017 | 20161230 | 20161231 (R4) | Owen Bennett-Jones is joined by a group of senior BBC journalists to forecast what is likely to happen over the coming year. Last time they got together they were firmly predicting that Marco Rubio would become the Republican presidential candidate - and that Britain was likely to vote to stay in the EU. So as the saying goes, making predictions is a tricky business...especially about the future. Yet our experts can at least lay out the parameters for what is likely to happen in the spheres of geopolitics, economics and society more widely - and give us essential tips on what and who to look out for in 2017.
The BBC's senior journalists forecast what is likely to happen over the coming year. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | |
| Looking Ahead to 2018 | 20171229 | Senior BBC journalists forecast what is likely to happen over the coming year. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | ||
| Looking Ahead to 2018 | 20171229 | 20171230 (R4) | Senior BBC journalists forecast what is likely to happen over the coming year. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | |
| Looking Ahead to 2019 | 20181228 | How do you look ahead in a world which constantly takes us by surprise, sometimes shocks us and often makes us ask 'what happens next?'
Who would have predicted that President Trump would, to use his words, fall in love with the North Korean leader Kim Jung Un, whose country he had threatened to totally destroy? Who could have imagined that a prominent Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, would be murdered and dismembered in a Saudi Consulate? And, on a happier note, we're relieved that, as the year ends a climate change conference in Poland did manage to save the Paris pact, and maybe our world.
The BBC's chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet talks to correspondents from around the globe about what might happen in the world in 2019.
Guests:
Katya Adler, Europe editor
Producer: Ben Carter
BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | ||
| Looking Ahead to 2019 | 20181228 | 20181229 (R4) | How do you look ahead in a world which constantly takes us by surprise, sometimes shocks us and often makes us ask 'what happens next?'
Who would have predicted that President Trump would, to use his words, fall in love with the North Korean leader Kim Jung Un, whose country he had threatened to totally destroy? Who could have imagined that a prominent Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, would be murdered and dismembered in a Saudi Consulate? And, on a happier note, we're relieved that, as the year ends a climate change conference in Poland did manage to save the Paris pact, and maybe our world.
The BBC's chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet talks to correspondents from around the globe about what might happen in the world in 2019.
Guests:
Katya Adler, Europe editor
Producer: Ben Carter
BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | |
| Looking Ahead to 2020 | 20191227 | The end of the decade draws to a close and what a year it's been. A US president impeached, people taking to the streets everywhere from Bolivia to Beirut, from Khartoum to Hong Kong. Young people everywhere found their voice - especially on our climate crisis, many inspired by teenage activist Greta Thunberg, whose lonely protest grew to a millions-strong cry.
As this year ends, some will breathe a sigh of relief that the world avoided another war in the Persian Gulf. But will North Korea's unpredictable leader launch more long-range missiles next year? Will ferocious fires and monster floods get worse and commitments get better at next year's climate talks? And when we meet next year will it be President Trump 2.0 or a new man or woman in the White House?
So many big questions. But we have some of our big hitters here to provide plenty of answers.
Presenter: Lyse Doucet
Producer: Ben Carter
Lyse Doucet and guests gaze into their crystal balls to predict what 2020 has in store. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | ||
| Looking Ahead to 2020 | 20191227 | 20191228 (R4) | The end of the decade draws to a close and what a year it's been. A US president impeached, people taking to the streets everywhere from Bolivia to Beirut, from Khartoum to Hong Kong. Young people everywhere found their voice - especially on our climate crisis, many inspired by teenage activist Greta Thunberg, whose lonely protest grew to a millions-strong cry.
As this year ends, some will breathe a sigh of relief that the world avoided another war in the Persian Gulf. But will North Korea's unpredictable leader launch more long-range missiles next year? Will ferocious fires and monster floods get worse and commitments get better at next year's climate talks? And when we meet next year will it be President Trump 2.0 or a new man or woman in the White House?
So many big questions. But we have some of our big hitters here to provide plenty of answers.
Presenter: Lyse Doucet
Producer: Ben Carter
Lyse Doucet and guests gaze into their crystal balls to predict what 2020 has in store. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | |
| Looking Ahead to 2021 | 20200104 | 20210101 (R4) | There were times in 2020 when the world felt like an out of control carousel and we could all have been forgiven for just wanting to get off and to wait for normality to return.
But will 2021 be any less dramatic? Joe Biden will be inaugurated in January but will Donald Trump have left the White House by then? Vaccines are promised to help tackle the Covid-19 pandemic but how successful will they be and how do global leaders go about trying to repair the economic damage the virus has caused? And then there's the not insignificant matter of what happens in the latest Brexit chapter, the ending of the transition period. What impact will that have on both the UK and the EU?
So many big questions but luckily we have some big hitters to provide plenty of answers.
Presenter: Lyse Doucet
BBC correspondents gaze into their crystal balls to predict what 2021 might have in store. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | |
| Looking Ahead to 2021 | 20200104 | 20210102 (R4) | There were times in 2020 when the world felt like an out of control carousel and we could all have been forgiven for just wanting to get off and to wait for normality to return.
But will 2021 be any less dramatic? Joe Biden will be inaugurated in January but will Donald Trump have left the White House by then? Vaccines are promised to help tackle the Covid-19 pandemic but how successful will they be and how do global leaders go about trying to repair the economic damage the virus has caused? And then there's the not insignificant matter of what happens in the latest Brexit chapter, the ending of the transition period. What impact will that have on both the UK and the EU?
So many big questions but luckily we have some big hitters to provide plenty of answers.
Presenter: Lyse Doucet
BBC correspondents gaze into their crystal balls to predict what 2021 might have in store. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | |
| Looking Ahead To 2022 | 20211231 | 20220101 (R4) | Lyse Doucet asks some of the BBC's top journalists to gaze into their crystal balls and predict what 2022 might have in store. This time last year we were boldly asking what a post-Covid world might look like. Little did we know that 12 months later, world leaders would be trying to deal with the chaos caused by a highly transmissable variant. Is 2022 the year the whole world gets vaccinated? How will the midterm elections play out in the United States? Can Boris Johnson restore his reputation after a torrid 2021? What impact will Germany's new chancellor Olaf Scholz have? And what fate awaits the people of Afghanistan? So many big questions, but luckily we have some of the BBC's best minds on hand to provide plenty of answers. Presenter: Lyse Doucet Panel: Faisal Islam, Gabriel Gatehouse, Katya Adler, Laura Trevelyan and Nick Eardley Producer: Ben Carter Research: Lizzie Frisby Production Co-ordinator: Sabine Schereck Editor: Hugh Levinson BBC journalists gaze into their crystal balls to predict what 2022 might have in store. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | |
| Looking Ahead To 2023 | 20221230 | 20221231 (R4) | Jonny Dymond asks some of the BBC's top journalists to gaze into their crystal balls and predict what 2023 might have in store. This time last year Russian troops were massing on the Ukrainian border but little did we know how quickly war would begin and how bravely the people of Ukraine would defend their country. But how will the war play out in 2023? Can either side allow it to endlessly drag on? Will 2023 be a more settled year in UK politics? With the ongoing cost of living crisis and little sign of a resolution to strike action, how will the government deal with those challenges next year? We'll also explore the political challenges facing leaders in China, Iran and Afghanistan. So many big questions, but luckily we have some of the BBC's best minds on hand to provide plenty of answers. Presenter: Jonny Dymond. Panel: Alex Forsyth, Lyse Doucet, Simon Jack and Steve Rosenberg. Producer: Ben Carter Production Co-ordinator: Janet Staples Editor: Lizzi Watson BBC journalists gaze into their crystal balls to predict what 2023 might have in store. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | |
| Looking Ahead to 2024 | 20231229 | 20231230 (R4) | Jonny Dymond asks some of the BBC's top correspondents to gaze into their crystal balls and predict what 2024 might have in store.
2023 has been dominated by the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel and Gaza and a global cost of living crisis. Next year will see nearly half of the world’s population going to the polls.
Around forty general elections are scheduled to take place next year, in countries including the UK, USA, India, Russia and Pakistan. How might those elections shift the geopolitical tectonic plates - and will we see any resolution to ongoing conflicts.
Contributors:
Alex Forsyth, Political Correspondent
Producer: Ben Carter
BBC journalists gaze into their crystal balls to predict what 2024 might have in store. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead Jonny Dymond asks some of the BBC's best correspondents gaze into their crystal balls to predict what 2024 might have in store.
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| Looking Ahead to 2024 | 20231229 | Jonny Dymond asks some of the BBC's top correspondents to gaze into their crystal balls and predict what 2024 might have in store.
2023 has been dominated by the conflicts in Ukraine and Israel and Gaza and a global cost of living crisis. Next year will see nearly half of the world’s population going to the polls.
Around forty general elections are scheduled to take place next year, in countries including the UK, USA, India, Russia and Pakistan. How might those elections shift the geopolitical tectonic plates - and will we see any resolution to ongoing conflicts.
Contributors:
Alex Forsyth, Political Correspondent
Producer: Ben Carter
BBC journalists gaze into their crystal balls to predict what 2024 might have in store. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead Jonny Dymond asks some of the BBC's best correspondents gaze into their crystal balls to predict what 2024 might have in store.
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| 2014 | 20140103 | 20140104 (R4) | Owen Bennett-Jones is joined by four of the BBC's top foreign and economic correspondents who give their predictions about what is likely to shape our world in 2014. James Robbins draws on more than ten years experience as the BBC's diplomatic correspondent, while North America Editor Mark Mardell provides his view from Washington. Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet takes a short break from reporting across the world while Chief Business correspondent Linda Yueh gives her view of the global economic outlook. Where is our attention most likely to be focused? And what will be the consequences for the United Kingdom and the rest of the world? Produced by Mark Savage. The BBC's top correspondents predict what they think will happen around the world in 2014. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | |
| 2015 | 20150102 | 20150103 (R4) | The BBC's top international news correspondents look ahead to the major developments in 2015, in a lively discussion chaired by Mark Mardell. He is joined by chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet, China editor Carrie Gracie, business editor Kamal Ahmed and diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall. Mark will be asking for their ideas about the stories and the people to watch over the coming months. What will happen in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine - and how will it affect the rest of us in Europe? Will Britain and other Western nations succeed in stopping the advance of the group calling itself Islamic State - and which other countries' help will they need to obtain? What are the prospects for the global economy? And how will China flex its muscles on the international stage? Producer Simon Coates. Mark Mardell invites BBC correspondents to discuss the major news stories to come in 2015. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead | |
| 2016 | 20160101 | 20160102 (R4) | Who and what will be making the global headlines in 2016? Owen Bennett-Jones and leading BBC correspondents discuss and give their predictions about what will shape the world in the year ahead and assess its likely impact on the United Kingdom. Owen is joined by Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet who has spent the year reporting from across the globe.North America Editor Jon Sopel looks ahead to next year's US Presidential election. Who does he think will win the race for the White House? Joining them are the BBC's most experienced diplomatic correspondents, James Robbins and Bridget Kendall. Last year she predicted that 2015 would be a year of shocking terrorist activities in Europe and a big year for the Pope. What will she and the other correspondents predict for 2016? Producer: Jim Frank. Top BBC correspondents predict what will shape our world in 2016. BBC correspondents forecast the leading news stories for the year ahead |