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On Background Episodes

  1. Valery Giscard d'Estaing on The Future of Europe

    Valery Giscard d'Estaing on Europe; private space exploration; plus the end of privacy?

  2. Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Fight for Human Rights

    UN human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein plus Ahdaf Soueif on Egypt post Arab Spring

  3. Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Globalisation

    The effects of globalisation on Africa plus the latest on al-Shabab in East Africa.

  4. Henry Kissinger and David Petraeus

    Henry Kissinger and David Petraeus on what they expect from President Trump

  5. African Governance and Immigration to the USA

    Philanthropist Mo Ibrahim on Africa, Mexican immigration to the US, and anti-Semitism

  6. Air Pollution and Free Trade Negotiations

    Pascal Lamy, the former director of WTO on trade deals. Plus, an air pollution audiograph

  7. Star wars, religious violence, and how to make a new emoji

    A look at the big stories of the week and outlook for the year ahead

  8. How Do You Fight an Ideology?

    Combating extremism, the parental leave arms race, historical symbols of racism

  9. The rise of populism on both sides of the Atlantic

    Challenges to establishment politics, online exhibitions and the Hajj stampede

  10. Should the West bring Vladimir Putin in From the Cold?

    Working with Putin, falling infant mortality and Hollywood portrayals of African men

  11. What challenge does Islamic State pose to Europe's liberal values?

    IS global terror, the death of Alberto Nisman and has Angela Merkel overreached?

  12. Putting the Current European Migration Crisis into Global Perspective

    Europe immigration crisis, free speech on university campuses and the Chibok kidnappings