Episodes
Episode | Title | First Broadcast | Comments |
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01 | Rethink Fairness: Wealth | 20210104 | Rethink Fairness is the latest chapter in Radio 4's Rethink project that ran throughout last year. It is a series of five discussions spread over one week at the start of the new year, presented by Amol Rajan. Its focus is fairness, a theme that emerged time and again in the conversations and essays of 2020. The pandemic brought renewed focus on how we value those who have kept shelves stacked, transport running and the old and sick cared for. So is now the time to bring about a fundamental shift in how our society and economy work? The first programme looks at wealth in the UK - who has it and how that has changed over the decades, if it is becoming harder to acquire and whether or not that matters.
Contributors
Producer: Louise Hidalgo
Wealth Fairness: how much does it matter and how should it be addressed? How the world should change after the coronavirus pandemic. |
02 | Rethink Fairness: Regions | 20210105 | Rethink Fairness is the latest chapter in Radio 4's Rethink project that ran throughout last year. It is a series of five discussions spread over one week at the start of the new year, presented by Amol Rajan. Its focus is fairness, a theme that emerged time and again in the conversations and essays of 2020. The pandemic brought renewed focus on how different areas of the country fared. There has been political talk - on both the left and the right - for decades about the need to make the regional map of the UK, economically and socially, more equal. Why has that been so difficult to achieve and Is now the time to bring about a fundamental shift?
Contributors:
Producer: Louise Hidalgo
Regional Fairness: how much does it matter and how should it be addressed? How the world should change after the coronavirus pandemic. |
03 | Rethink Fairness: Education | 20210106 | Rethink Fairness is the latest chapter in Radio 4's Rethink project that ran throughout last year. It is a series of five discussions spread over one week at the start of the new year, presented by Amol Rajan. Its focus is fairness, a theme that emerged time and again in the conversations and essays of 2020. The pandemic brought renewed focus on different educational experiences as some schools managed to deliver online lessons more successfully than others. It also shed light on our exam system as different parts of the UK wrestled with the question of how fair this form of assessment was likely to be. However, education has been at the centre of the debate about how to increase social mobility for decades. Is now the time to bring about a fundamental shift and rethink how we might make education fairer?
Contributors
Producer: Louise Hidalgo
Educational Fairness: how much does it matter and how should it be addressed? How the world should change after the coronavirus pandemic. |
04 | Rethink Fairness: Health | 20210107 | Rethink Fairness is the latest chapter in Radio 4's Rethink project that ran throughout last year. It is a series of five discussions spread over one week at the start of the new year, presented by Amol Rajan. Its focus is fairness, a theme that emerged time and again in the conversations and essays of 2020. The pandemic brought renewed focus on health outcomes across social and racial groups and raised questions about whether our care and health system performed differently across the country and, if so, why? Those concerns are not new, but might now be the time to bring about a fundamental shift and rethink how we might make the situation fairer?
Contributors
Producer: Louise Hidalgo
Heath Fairness: how much does it matter and how should it be addressed? How the world should change after the coronavirus pandemic. |
05 | Rethink Fairness: Generations | 20210108 | Rethink Fairness is the latest chapter in Radio 4's Rethink project that ran throughout last year. It is a series of five discussions spread over one week at the start of the new year, presented by Amol Rajan. Its focus is fairness, a theme that emerged time and again in the conversations and essays of 2020. The pandemic brought renewed focus on the economic pain faced by the young who have been disproportionately hit by job losses in retail and hospitality. They will also live with the consequences of climate change, soaring national debt and, depending on where in the country they live, high housing costs. And for many there is the additional burden of student debt. So is now the time to rethink whether we can bring about a fundamental shift in the contract between the generations and, if so, what might that look like?
Contributors
Producer: Louise Hidalgo
Generational Fairness: how much does it matter and how should it be addressed? How the world should change after the coronavirus pandemic. |