The Inquiry

Does Putin’s view of history explain why he invaded Ukraine?

March 10, 2022

23:35

Will sanctions stop Russia in Ukraine?

March 3, 2022

23:35

What’s happened to the left in France?

Feb. 24, 2022

23:57

What will end the war in Yemen?

Feb. 17, 2022

22:59

Why have military coups returned to West Africa?

Feb. 10, 2022

23:45

Do we have enough lithium to power the future?

Feb. 3, 2022

23:37

Is Turkey heading for an economic meltdown?

Jan. 27, 2022

23:49

What’s going on in Kazakhstan?

Jan. 20, 2022

23:50

Are we heading for space wars?

Jan. 13, 2022

23:49

Can we get drugs out of prisons?

Jan. 6, 2022

23:53

Can we solve our space junk problem?

Dec. 30, 2021

23:55

How will Afghanistan survive the winter?

Dec. 23, 2021

23:54

Should we be worried about the return of inflation?

Dec. 16, 2021

24:05

How will we cope with the Omicron variant?

Dec. 9, 2021

24:02

Are the US Democrats in big trouble?

Dec. 2, 2021

24:02

Why aren’t countries doing more to stop climate change?

Nov. 25, 2021

23:43

What is the metaverse and why is Facebook so obsessed with it?

Nov. 18, 2021

22:54

What are hypersonic missiles and why do they matter?

Nov. 11, 2021

22:58

Why are we seeing global shortages?

Nov. 4, 2021

22:58

Do climate conferences make a difference?

Oct. 28, 2021

22:58

Are we running out of water?

Oct. 21, 2021

22:58

Is Britain paying the price for its green energy push?

Oct. 14, 2021

22:59

Is China’s economy in trouble?

Oct. 7, 2021

22:59

Is Brazil heading for a constitutional crisis?

Sept. 30, 2021

23:41

Will America ban abortion?

Sept. 23, 2021

24:07

Should the knowledge needed to make the Covid-19 vaccines be freely available to all?

Sept. 16, 2021

24:14

Did America get its response to the attacks of 9/11 right?

Sept. 9, 2021

23:58

Which president is most responsible for the failure in Afghanistan?

Sept. 2, 2021

23:52

Is our fascination with sharks bad for them?

Aug. 26, 2021

23:57

Are our phones spying on us?

Aug. 19, 2021

23:50

Can we run the world on electricity?

Aug. 12, 2021

23:36

What’s behind the recent rioting in South Africa?

Aug. 5, 2021

23:46

Why was the president of Haiti assassinated?

July 29, 2021

23:45

Can China raise its birth rate?

July 22, 2021

23:51

Why did so many indigenous children die in Canada’s residential schools?

July 15, 2021

22:57

Is Nigeria becoming impossible to govern?

July 8, 2021

23:41

Can we make the super-rich pay more tax?

July 1, 2021

23:32

Are the Tokyo Olympic games in trouble?

June 24, 2021

23:30

Could Covid-19 have come from a lab leak?

June 17, 2021

24:08

Belarus: Can President Lukashenko be overthrown?

June 10, 2021

23:51

Do we need more nuclear power to help deal with climate change?

June 3, 2021

23:50

What are NFTs and are they really the next big thing?

May 27, 2021

23:58

Why are murder rates in Chicago so high?

May 20, 2021

23:56

Will the Taliban rule Afghanistan again?

May 13, 2021

23:59

Is peace under threat in Northern Ireland?

May 7, 2021

23:29

Covid: What went wrong in India?

April 29, 2021

23:44

Is the legal cannabis business about to go global?

April 22, 2021

23:59

Is Africa the new power base for the Islamic State group?

April 15, 2021

23:29

Why has Peru had such a bad pandemic?

April 8, 2021

23:29

How will the concussion issue affect the future of sport?

April 1, 2021

23:31

Are ‘killer robots’ the future of warfare?

March 25, 2021

22:59

Why do Italy’s governments keep collapsing?

March 18, 2021

23:29

Is Antifa the threat it’s made out to be?

March 11, 2021

23:29

Why did Alexei Navalny return to Russia?

March 4, 2021

22:58

What is the future for Myanmar?

Feb. 25, 2021

24:02

Can we solve our space junk problem?

Feb. 18, 2021

23:59

How did Europe fall behind in the vaccine race?

Feb. 11, 2021

22:58

Will QAnon survive?

Feb. 4, 2021

24:06

Is online censorship going too far?

Jan. 28, 2021

22:59

Why do the Indian farmer protests matter?

Jan. 21, 2021

22:59

Is recycling broken?

Jan. 7, 2021

23:05

Why are boys academically underperforming?

Dec. 31, 2020

22:59

Has the time come for a European Super League?

Dec. 17, 2020

22:59

Has French secularism gone too far?

Dec. 10, 2020

23:59

Why is Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize winner bombing his own country?

Dec. 3, 2020

23:05

Do we have a vaccine to end the pandemic?

Nov. 26, 2020

22:58

Will the EndSARS protest change Nigeria?

Nov. 12, 2020

22:58

Why are Thai students risking jail to call for reform of the monarchy?

Nov. 5, 2020

22:58

Can President Trump still win the US presidential election?

Oct. 29, 2020

22:58

How has Trump changed America’s relationship with the world?

Oct. 23, 2020

22:58

Should we learn to live with Covid?

Oct. 15, 2020

24:44

Are shares in Elon Musk’s Tesla vastly overvalued?

Oct. 8, 2020

22:57

Is Kanye West really running for US president?

Oct. 1, 2020

23:33

Will the US presidential debates change the course of the election?

Sept. 24, 2020

23:37

Can the world stop online fraud?

Sept. 17, 2020

24:09

Will votes be safe in the US presidential election?

Sept. 10, 2020

22:57

What is “Obamagate?”

Sept. 3, 2020

22:58

What’s gone wrong in Lebanon?

Aug. 27, 2020

23:56

How close are we to a vaccine for Covid-19?

Aug. 20, 2020

23:56

Will America’s 'Big Tech' firms be reined in?

Aug. 13, 2020

23:59

Will the pandemic get worse in the winter?

Aug. 6, 2020

24:07

Why isn’t the world doing more to help the Uighurs?

July 30, 2020

24:00

Should Joe Biden stay in the basement?

July 23, 2020

23:05

Is China versus India the most important rivalry of the 21st century?

July 16, 2020

24:04

Why are Covid cases rising in the US?

July 9, 2020

22:58

What does Putin want?

July 2, 2020

24:02

Why do we care about statues?

June 25, 2020

24:03

How will Hollywood respond to the Black Lives Matter and Me Too movements?

June 18, 2020

24:05

Will Covid-19 change cities?

June 11, 2020

23:39

Why do US cops keep killing unarmed black men?

June 3, 2020

22:57

How far can the Chinese government be blamed for Covid-19?

May 28, 2020

24:09

How will the world pay for Covid-19?

May 21, 2020

24:08

Why does Germany have such a low number of deaths from Covid-19?

May 14, 2020

23:39

Why are so many ethnic minorities dying in the UK and US?

May 7, 2020

24:11

Why are people attacking 5G mobile phone masts?

April 30, 2020

22:58

How do we come out of the lockdown?

April 23, 2020

23:31

How do you help people stay rational in a pandemic?

April 16, 2020

23:40

Can Africa cope with coronavirus?

April 9, 2020

22:59

Why is it taking so long to develop a Covid-19 vaccine?

April 2, 2020

23:02

Coronavirus: What can the world learn from South Korea?

March 26, 2020

23:47

Why did the USA fail in its initial coronavirus response?

March 19, 2020

23:51

How China turned the tide with coronavirus

March 12, 2020

24:19

Have our climate models been wrong?

March 5, 2020

24:09

Why don’t we care about facts?

Feb. 27, 2020

23:50

Why are trade deals so hard to do?

Feb. 20, 2020

24:00

Will a pandemic ever kill millions again?

Feb. 13, 2020

23:01

Could India’s Muslims become second class citizens?

Feb. 6, 2020

23:52

Is recycling broken?

Jan. 30, 2020

24:12

How did Trump get into trouble with Ukraine?

Jan. 23, 2020

23:49

Why does Ukraine have such a corruption problem?

Jan. 16, 2020

24:01

Why was Qasem Soleimani killed?

Jan. 9, 2020

22:58

Will humans become extinct by the end of the century?

Jan. 2, 2020

23:50

Can we eradicate polio?

Dec. 26, 2019

23:50

Is Nato obsolete?

Dec. 19, 2019

23:47

Should we ban billionaires?

Dec. 12, 2019

23:44

Can we protect our elections from social media manipulators?

Dec. 5, 2019

23:20

Why is there a backlash against climate policies?

Nov. 28, 2019

24:10

What can we do about the world’s mental health problem?

Nov. 21, 2019

23:16

Why are immigrants under attack in South Africa?

Nov. 14, 2019

24:12

How soon can we go carbon zero?

Nov. 7, 2019

23:40

Why are the Kurds always in the firing line?

Oct. 31, 2019

24:26

Is vaping safe?

Oct. 24, 2019

23:42

Can we dismiss QAnon?

Oct. 17, 2019

23:39

Are we heading for a global recession?

Oct. 10, 2019

22:59

Is Africa facing another debt crisis?

Oct. 3, 2019

24:09

How can we save our forests?

Sept. 26, 2019

24:41

Is rock music doomed?

Sept. 19, 2019

23:39

Why the race to build a quantum computer?

Sept. 12, 2019

23:10

Why does Donald Trump seem to have such a problem with the truth?

Sept. 5, 2019

22:58

Why are we having less sex?

Aug. 29, 2019

23:13

Is Germany OK?

Aug. 22, 2019

22:58

Do children in two-parent families do better?

Aug. 8, 2019

24:06

Can you reduce Central American migration?

Aug. 1, 2019

24:15

Will China crack down on Hong Kong?

July 25, 2019

22:58

What kind of Prime Minister would Boris Johnson make?

July 18, 2019

24:00

How can Chennai’s water crisis be solved?

July 11, 2019

23:08

Is the deep ocean the answer to some of our biggest problems?

July 4, 2019

23:23

Can a government make you happy?

June 27, 2019

23:13

Can vaccines stop Ebola in the DRC?

June 20, 2019

23:28

Why is it always Alabama?

June 13, 2019

23:13

Is time travel possible?

June 6, 2019

23:19

Is the US heading for war with Iran?

May 30, 2019

23:15

How do you move a capital city?

May 23, 2019

23:02

How did K-Pop conquer the world?

May 16, 2019

25:10

What’s next for Sudan?

May 9, 2019

23:59

Can you make gangs good?

May 2, 2019

23:36

How can we feed 11 billion people?

April 25, 2019

23:31

How scared should we be?

April 18, 2019

23:35

Why has the Kashmir crisis lasted so long?

April 11, 2019

23:13

How long can we live?

April 4, 2019

23:51

How is space changing Earth?

March 28, 2019

23:48

What is the Wagner Group?

March 21, 2019

23:07

Will populism destroy the European Union?

March 14, 2019

24:16

Are smart cities dumb?

March 7, 2019

24:12

Can radicalised kids recover?

Feb. 28, 2019

23:25

How do we stop young people killing themselves?

Feb. 21, 2019

23:29

Why don't we care about Yemen?

Feb. 14, 2019

23:35

What’s so scary about Huawei?

Feb. 7, 2019

24:31

Why Can’t So Many Children Read?

Jan. 31, 2019

24:02

Should We Fear ‘Designer Babies’?

Jan. 24, 2019

24:00

What Would It Take to Impeach Trump?

Jan. 17, 2019

24:11

Can We Stop a Mass Extinction?

Jan. 10, 2019

24:04

Are We Heading for Another Mass Extinction?

Jan. 3, 2019

24:00

How Did We Get Hooked on Vitamins?

Dec. 27, 2018

24:18

What did #MeToo Really Achieve?

Dec. 20, 2018

23:58

Is this the Most Dangerous Time to be a Journalist?

Dec. 13, 2018

23:48

Why Is Brexit So Hard?

Dec. 6, 2018

23:41

Is the West at War with Russia?

Nov. 29, 2018

23:10

Is Russia at War with the West?

Nov. 22, 2018

23:09

What Makes A Pariah State?

Nov. 15, 2018

23:48

How Did We Mess up Antibiotics?

Nov. 8, 2018

22:58

Is the China-Africa Love Affair Over?

Nov. 1, 2018

22:59

What Went Wrong in Indonesia?

Oct. 18, 2018

23:07

Can Delhi Clean Up Its Air?

Oct. 11, 2018

23:01

Should We Rethink the Ban on Child Labour?

Oct. 4, 2018

24:03

Is Genetic Testing Overrated?

Sept. 27, 2018

23:36

The Inquiry Junior - Why are North and South Korea divided?

Sept. 20, 2018

23:49

The Inquiry Junior - What’s Killing Africa’s Elephants?

Sept. 13, 2018

23:08

Is Women’s Sport In Trouble?

Sept. 6, 2018

23:38

How Do You Run A Hacking Operation?

Aug. 30, 2018

23:16

Who’s in the Driving Seat of the US – Saudi Relationship?

Aug. 23, 2018

23:02

Could We See Another Aids Pandemic?

Aug. 16, 2018

23:04

Can We Control 3D Printing?

Aug. 9, 2018

22:59

Is WhatsApp Fuelling Vigilantism?

Aug. 2, 2018

23:05

Is Africa’s Longest War Really Over?

July 26, 2018

23:51

What does Iran think of the West?

July 19, 2018

23:36

Can We Ever Understand Animals?

July 12, 2018

23:32

Can We Eat Our Way Out Of Climate Change?

July 5, 2018

22:58

Are We Heading for a Trade War?

June 28, 2018

22:59

Can You Train People To Be Less Prejudiced?

June 21, 2018

23:20

How Do You Make People Have Babies?

June 14, 2018

23:02

Is Raqqa Recovering After Islamic State?

June 7, 2018

22:57

Can Computers Predict Crimes That Haven’t Happened Yet?

May 31, 2018

23:29

Is North Korea Broke?

May 24, 2018

22:56

What Makes a Revolution Successful?

May 17, 2018

23:12

Trump and Kim: Can They Close the Deal?

May 10, 2018

23:01

What’s the Real Difference Between the Sexes?

May 3, 2018

23:26

What’s Killing Black American Babies?

April 26, 2018

22:58

Are Nerve Agents Out of Control?

April 19, 2018

23:19

How Did China Ban Ivory?

April 12, 2018

23:27

How Do Dictators Survive So Long?

April 5, 2018

22:57

Is Plastic Doomed?

March 28, 2018

23:06

Have We Always Felt This Tired?

March 22, 2018

23:25

What’s Happening to IS Fighters Now?

March 15, 2018

23:13

Is Facebook in Trouble?

March 8, 2018

23:34

What Happens When a Cyber-attack Strikes?

March 1, 2018

23:47

How Do You Close The Gender Pay Gap?

Feb. 22, 2018

23:08

Why is Cape Town Running Out of Water?

Feb. 15, 2018

23:02

Why Are the Taliban So Resilient?

Feb. 8, 2018

23:34

How Did We Get Hooked on Plastic?

Feb. 1, 2018

23:09

What Does China Want in the South China Sea?

Jan. 25, 2018

23:38

What’s the Greatest Threat to Poland?

Jan. 18, 2018

23:21

What is IS doing in the Philippines?

Jan. 11, 2018

23:19

Is Zero Tolerance the Right Approach for FGM?

Jan. 4, 2018

23:58

What’s The Point Of Bitcoin?

Dec. 28, 2017

23:22

North Korea deep dive

Dec. 22, 2017

50:40

How Do We Rule The Universe?

Dec. 21, 2017

23:37

How Powerful is Facebook's Algorithm?

Dec. 14, 2017

23:58

Are We Missing a Bigger Opioid Crisis?

Dec. 7, 2017

24:12

What Would an Iran-Saudi Arabia War Look Like?

Nov. 30, 2017

24:02

Why Doesn’t Apple Pay More Tax?

Nov. 23, 2017

23:51

What Does the Saudi Crown Prince Want?

Nov. 16, 2017

23:19

Is the Knowledge Factory Broken?

Nov. 9, 2017

22:58

How Powerful is Iran’s Revolutionary Guard?

Nov. 2, 2017

23:51

How Do You End A Civil War?

Oct. 26, 2017

23:50

Is the Pope Catholic?

Oct. 19, 2017

22:58

Can We Teach Robots Ethics?

Oct. 12, 2017

23:04

Is Privacy Dead?

Oct. 5, 2017

22:57

Could We Ban the Sale of Petrol and Diesel Cars Now?

Sept. 28, 2017

24:25

Can China solve the North Korea problem?

Sept. 21, 2017

23:15

How Do We Stop People Dying in Floods?

Sept. 15, 2017

22:58

What Can We Do With Our Dead?

Sept. 7, 2017

23:48

How Has The Ku Klux Klan Lasted So Long?

Aug. 31, 2017

22:58

Are Video Games a Waste of Time?

Aug. 24, 2017

24:30

How Do You Fix Someone Else's Election?

Aug. 17, 2017

23:30

Are South Africa's Police Failing?

Aug. 10, 2017

23:13

Who Gets to Have Their Own Country?

Aug. 3, 2017

23:33

What would war with North Korea look like?

July 27, 2017

23:19

Is it Time to Ban the Plastic Bottle?

July 20, 2017

23:35

Is Gene Editing Out of Control?

July 13, 2017

23:15

What's So Special About Qatar?

July 6, 2017

23:17

Have We Always Felt This Tired?

June 29, 2017

23:27

Why Does China Want to Revive the Silk Road?

June 22, 2017

23:12

Is the Greatest Threat to Putin Really Alexei Navalny?

June 15, 2017

22:57

How Do You Report Terrorism?

June 8, 2017

23:10

Is Work Too Easy?

June 1, 2017

23:09

Does Poverty Change The Way We Think?

May 25, 2017

23:28

How Did Immigration Stop Being a Political Taboo in the UK?

May 18, 2017

23:20

How Did Venezuela Go From So Rich To So Poor?

May 11, 2017

23:23

How did North Korea get the bomb?

May 4, 2017

23:13

Is Inequality About to Get Unimaginably Worse?

April 27, 2017

23:05

How Powerful is Facebook's Algorithm?

April 20, 2017

23:26

What Happens When You Legalise Cannabis?

April 13, 2017

23:25

Why Is No-one Trying to Stop the War in Yemen?

April 6, 2017

23:29

Do We Need A Plan B For Climate Change?

March 30, 2017

23:04

What’s Wrong With France?

March 21, 2017

23:23

Are Famines Always Man-Made?

March 14, 2017

23:14

How is Mosul Being Liberated?

March 7, 2017

23:40

What Happened to Europe’s Migrant Crisis?

Feb. 28, 2017

23:10

Why Can't We Stop Looking at our Phones?

Feb. 21, 2017

23:28

Is Donald Trump Good for Journalism?

Feb. 14, 2017

23:27

Can You Believe What You Read on WikiLeaks?

Feb. 7, 2017

23:48

What Would ‘No Deal’ Mean For Brexit Britain?

Jan. 31, 2017

23:10

How do you launch a nuclear missile?

Jan. 24, 2017

23:34

How Did the US Get Stuck With Guantanamo?

Jan. 17, 2017

23:10

Is There Anybody Out There?

Jan. 10, 2017

22:58

Can We Eat Our Way Out Of Climate Change?

Jan. 3, 2017

23:39

What Went Right in 2016?

Dec. 27, 2016

22:59

Should We Give Homeless People Homes?

Dec. 15, 2016

22:58

What’s the Story of Aleppo?

Dec. 15, 2016

22:59

Does Turkey Still Want to Join the EU?

Dec. 13, 2016

22:58

Why Do Governments Do Stupid Things?

Dec. 6, 2016

23:02

Why Did The Polls Get it Wrong (Or Did They)?

Nov. 29, 2016

22:58

Why Does Anyone Still Smoke?

Nov. 22, 2016

23:04

After the Electoral Shocks of Brexit and the US Election - What Next?

Nov. 15, 2016

22:58

Was this the Most Divisive US Election Ever?

Nov. 8, 2016

22:58

How Do We Fix Antibiotics?

Oct. 25, 2016

22:58

How Did We Mess up Antibiotics?

Oct. 19, 2016

22:58

Can a Corrupt Country Get Clean?

Oct. 11, 2016

22:58

Why are 10,000 Children Missing in Europe?

Oct. 4, 2016

23:26

Is Islamic State Finished?

Sept. 27, 2016

23:29

Who Wins in a Cashless Economy?

Sept. 20, 2016

22:58

What’s the Point of Lotteries?

Sept. 13, 2016

22:58

Can Coral Reefs Survive?

Sept. 6, 2016

22:58

Is Retirement Over?

Aug. 30, 2016

22:57

Would Donald Trump Be a Dangerous President?

Aug. 23, 2016

22:58

Why Don’t Cities Want The Olympics?

Aug. 16, 2016

22:58

Has Russia Won In Ukraine?

Aug. 9, 2016

22:58

How Did we Save the Ozone Layer?

Aug. 2, 2016

22:58

Can Colombia Reintegrate the Farc?

July 26, 2016

22:57