The Inquiry gets beyond the headlines to explore the trends, forces and ideas shaping the world.
Is the Pope Catholic?
Oct. 19, 2017
22:58
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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
What Can We Do With Our Dead?
Sept. 7, 2017
23:48
How Has The Ku Klux Klan Lasted So Long?
Aug. 31, 2017
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
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
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
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
What’s Wrong With France?
March 21, 2017
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
Why Can't We Stop Looking at our Phones?
Feb. 21, 2017
Is Donald Trump Good for Journalism?
Feb. 14, 2017
Can You Believe What You Read on WikiLeaks?
Feb. 7, 2017
What Would ‘No Deal’ Mean For Brexit Britain?
Jan. 31, 2017
How do You Launch a Nuclear Missile?
Jan. 24, 2017
23:34
How Did the US Get Stuck With Guantanamo?
Jan. 17, 2017
Is There Anybody Out There?
Jan. 10, 2017
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
What’s the Story of Aleppo?
Does Turkey Still Want to Join the EU?
Dec. 13, 2016
Why Do Governments Do Stupid Things?
Dec. 6, 2016
23:02
Why Did The Polls Get it Wrong (Or Did They)?
Nov. 29, 2016
Why Does Anyone Still Smoke?
Nov. 22, 2016
After the Electoral Shocks of Brexit and the US Election - What Next?
Nov. 15, 2016
Was this the Most Divisive US Election Ever?
Nov. 8, 2016
How Do We Fix Antibiotics?
Oct. 25, 2016
How Did We Mess up Antibiotics?
Oct. 19, 2016
Can a Corrupt Country Get Clean?
Oct. 11, 2016
Why are 10,000 Children Missing in Europe?
Oct. 4, 2016
Is Islamic State Finished?
Sept. 27, 2016
Who Wins in a Cashless Economy?
Sept. 20, 2016
What’s the Point of Lotteries?
Sept. 13, 2016
Can Coral Reefs Survive?
Sept. 6, 2016
Is Retirement Over?
Aug. 30, 2016
Would Donald Trump Be a Dangerous President?
Aug. 23, 2016
Why Don’t Cities Want The Olympics?
Aug. 16, 2016
Has Russia Won In Ukraine?
Aug. 9, 2016
How Did we Save the Ozone Layer?
Aug. 2, 2016
Can Colombia Reintegrate the Farc?
July 26, 2016
Is Brexit Inevitable?
July 19, 2016
Can Trump Win?
July 12, 2016
22:56
Can You Make Bankers Behave Better?
July 5, 2016
23:00
Can the EU Survive?
June 28, 2016
Why Do So Many People Dislike Hillary?
June 20, 2016
Are We Really About to End World Poverty?
June 14, 2016
Why Can't Egypt Stop FGM?
June 7, 2016
Are we Fighting Cancer the Right Way?
May 31, 2016
49:27
Would A New International Convention Help Refugees?
May 24, 2016
What's Killing White American Women?
May 10, 2016
What Happened to the European Dream?
May 3, 2016
April 26, 2016
What Kind of Person Becomes a Violent Jihadi?
April 21, 2016
Do We Have Enough Genders?
April 13, 2016
What Happened To Al-Qaeda?
April 5, 2016
Why Do Mexicans Drink So Much Soda?
March 29, 2016
Can we Quake-Proof a City?
March 22, 2016
Why Are Wages So Low?
March 8, 2016
How Did Governments Lose Control of Encryption?
March 1, 2016
Has President Assad Won?
Feb. 23, 2016
Why Don’t We Eradicate Mosquitoes?
Feb. 15, 2016
How Did Iceland Clean Up its Banks (And Why Can't We)?
Feb. 9, 2016
Are We Fighting Cancer the Right Way?
Feb. 2, 2016
How Has the US Gun Lobby Been so Successful?
Jan. 26, 2016
What is China Doing to Clear the Air?
Jan. 19, 2016
Jan. 12, 2016
How Much Inequality Is Too Much?
Jan. 5, 2016
23:08
Should We Solar Panel The Sahara?
Dec. 29, 2015
How Will a Population Boom Change Africa?
Dec. 22, 2015
23:03
Is Saudi To Blame For ‘IS’?
Dec. 15, 2015
23:21
Should Governments Drop Money Out of Helicopters?
Dec. 8, 2015
How Do Cartels Get Drugs into the US?
Dec. 1, 2015
Can ‘Islamic State’ Be Defeated?
Nov. 21, 2015
Have We Underestimated Plants?
Nov. 17, 2015
23:11
Is it too Late to Save Syria’s Antiquities?
Nov. 10, 2015
Why was Mohammed Akhlaq Killed?
Nov. 3, 2015
How Do You Save the Rhino?
Oct. 27, 2015
Can Nigeria End Oil Corruption?
Oct. 20, 2015
Is Russia Vulnerable?
Oct. 13, 2015
What Does the President Need to Know?
Oct. 6, 2015
Do Drone Strikes Work?
Sept. 29, 2015
23:06
Is Japan Abandoning Pacifism?
Sept. 22, 2015
Why is Argentina Still so Sexist?
Sept. 15, 2015
Sept. 7, 2015
Can We Learn to Live with Nuclear Power?
Sept. 1, 2015
23:07
Migrant Crisis: What Else Could Europe Try?
Aug. 25, 2015
What Will Happen When Robots Take Our Jobs?
Aug. 18, 2015
Should Anyone Ever Talk to IS?
Aug. 11, 2015
What’s Behind the Anti-Vax Movement?
Aug. 4, 2015
Why do Tax Havens Still Exist?
July 28, 2015
What Does China’s Stock Market Crash Tell Us?
July 21, 2015
Is Streaming Good for Music?
July 14, 2015
How Easy is it to Dope in Sport?
July 7, 2015
Has Austerity Worked?
June 30, 2015
23:01
Would Greece Be Better Off Out of the Euro?
June 23, 2015
What Does China Want From Space?
June 16, 2015
Will Anyone Help the Rohingya?
June 8, 2015
Is Opposition to GM Crops Irrational?
June 2, 2015
Who Can Fix Fifa?
May 22, 2015
Why Do US Cops Keep Killing Unarmed Black Men?
May 19, 2015
Why is South Africa Still So Unequal?
May 12, 2015
Is Cyber Warfare Really That Scary?
May 5, 2015
How Has Rwanda Saved The Lives Of 590,000 Children?
April 28, 2015
What Is The Yemen Conflict Really About?
April 21, 2015
Is There A New Nuclear Arms Race?
April 14, 2015
Cuba: What Would Che Say?
April 7, 2015
Are We Tired Of Talking About Climate Change?
March 31, 2015
Will The Dalai Lama Reincarnate?
March 24, 2015
Has The War On Drugs Been Lost?
March 17, 2015
Who Wants What In Libya?
March 10, 2015
Is Life Getting Worse For Women In Erdogan’s Turkey?
March 3, 2015
Could Europe Stop Migrants Dying In The Mediterranean?
Feb. 24, 2015
How Strong Is NATO?
Feb. 17, 2015
Will The New King Change Saudi Arabia?
Feb. 10, 2015
Is Nigeria’s Army Failing?
Feb. 3, 2015
What Does Kim Jong Un Want?
Jan. 27, 2015
Is Pakistan Serious About Tackling Militants?
Jan. 20, 2015
Should we Fear Artificial Intelligence?
Jan. 13, 2015
Can The Internet Be Policed?
Jan. 6, 2015
Is American Democracy Broken?
Dec. 30, 2014
What Are The Consequences Of Cheap Oil?
Dec. 23, 2014
Can Europe Resist The Rise Of Radical Politics?
Dec. 16, 2014
The US And Iran: How Close Could They Get?
Dec. 9, 2014
Why Aren't More Dishonest Bankers In Jail?
Dec. 2, 2014
Who Runs Mexico?
Nov. 25, 2014
Are Sanctions Hurting Putin?
Nov. 18, 2014
What Is Hong Kong’s Problem With China?
Nov. 11, 2014
Are Pandemics Inevitable?
Nov. 4, 2014
Can Islamic State Be Stopped?
Oct. 28, 2014
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