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Mar 24, 2023

“On the television, they were saying we were thieves, that we were raised with no morals”. Growing up Black in 1970s Britain, writer Gary Younge didn’t feel fully accepted - he didn’t even feel British. “Someone would go, “it’s cold today isn’t it, I bet it’s not like this where you come from,” and...


Mar 10, 2023

“We're the only species who have worked out to blow up everything and kill everyone”. In his latest book, The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan takes on the entirety of the history of planet earth, and looks at how our lives have been shaped by environmental changes since the dawn of our planet, 4.5 billion years...


Mar 3, 2023

He’s the frontman of one of the most iconic bands of the 80s. 

Four decades on, Simon Le Bon says that New Wave  legends Duran Duran are still going strong, making new music and announcing that they’re going on tour again. 

In today’s episode of Ways to Change the World, Simon Le Bon sits down with Krishnan...


Jan 20, 2023

Frances O’Grady stepped down as the General Secretary of British Trades Union Congress at the end of 2022. She was the first woman to hold the post in TUC’s 154-year history.

 

She is now a Labour peer in the House of Lords where she is committed to abolishing the unelected chamber.

 

She joins Krishnan to talk...


Ways to Change the World with Chatbot GPT

Dec 23, 2022

ChatbotGPT is a new artificial intelligence programme designed to simulate human conversation and tackle complex questions.

It's made by Open AI foundation, a tech-startup co-founded by Elon Musk, and it draws on text taken from a variety of sources on the internet and its creators say it has learned how to answer...