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Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
Cars are a big part of our shared life. They also reveal how difficult we're finding it to live that shared life together.
This conversation offers jaw-dropping, real-world examples of the human and monetary costs imposed by cars while we position that car-centric cities restrict the freedoms of drivers and non-drivers alike.
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Independent
19 Jun 2016
Podcasts and Radio
12 Oct 2023
BBC Radio: The Compass: My Perfect Country
In My Perfect Country Fi Glover, Martha Lane Fox and Henrietta Moore are on the hunt for solutions to the world’s problems.
In a world where a lot is going wrong there is also a lot going right. So what if you could build a country - with policies that actually worked? IGP Director Professor Henrietta Moore, Fi Glover and digital guru Martha Lane Fox invite you to imagine your perfect country by honing in on policies from across the world that have been truly successful.
Fi Glover, Professor Henrietta Moore and Martha Lane Fox – together with Iain Overton, the Executive Director of Action on Armed Violence – question whether gun control policy could work in countries across the world and whether increasing militarisation across the world poses a threat to gun laws.
BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4
My Perfect Country: Canada
The Compass: My Perfect Country: Sanitation for Women in India
Fi Glover examines India’s pioneering work on sanitation for women. With stories from the workers who are inventing simple systems alongside active campaigning, she follows the changing attitudes towards women’s rights and their wellbeing. Our local reporter explores the corridors of universities to hear the young women who are putting themselves in charge of their own future – and whether those in charge of inspiring change nationwide are taking note. She puts the findings to entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox and professor Henrietta Moore of the Institute for Global prosperity. Together, they determine whether global nations should take on both the practice and the inspiration from India into their own communities.
BBC Radio 4: The End of Development
Anthropologist Henrietta Moore argues that the age of development is over and that we need new ideas on how to improve human lives.
05 Jan 2017
In May 2016, the BBC recorded a special episode of its award-winning radio programme, My Perfect Country, at a session of the United Nations in New York.
the episode included contributions by UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and people who had instigated groundbreaking economic and social projects in India, Uganda, Estonia and Costa Rica, alongside its regular hosts - broadcaster and journalist Fi Glover, entrepreneur and philanthropist Martha Lane Fox, and Henrietta Moore, Director of the Bartlett's Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP).
The show's position on the World Service schedule meant it was already reaching millions of people around the world, but this event placed it at the heart of the global conversation about social and economic policy as the UN began to implement its 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
For three series, My Perfect Country has sought to build the perfect country. Inspired by positive thinking, it takes policies from around the world that actually work and have solved global problems. We ask why they work, and whether they could work anywhere. Out of this comes a forensic analysis of what good global policy should look like. In this one-off special, the My Perfect Country team travel to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where they join a group of bright, curious, switched-on students who use the past three series of My Perfect Country in their learning of global policy. Elizabeth Schmidt, professor of practice at the School of Public Policy, uses the My Perfect Country series to inspire and educate her students. The course explores strategies for designing and measuring successful policies, as well as strategies for convincing others that proven policies are worth pursuing.
Listen to the Making a Difference episode on BBC Sounds, here. Jan. 2019
Fi Glover, Martha Lane Fox and Henrietta Moore are on the hunt for solutions to the world’s problems. Their aim is to create the perfect country made up of the best global policies that actually work. In this episode, the panel hear the voices, opinions and criticisms of the World Service audience. Together, they debate how the perfect country is shaping up. The policies include: Rwanda reducing the gender pay gap, Cuba’s disaster preparedness, Germany’s refugee integration, Norway’s prison system, Nepal’s maternal healthcare, and Canada’s sustainable fishing programme. Listeners who have first-hand experience of these policies give their own personal reflection of living through them – and direct feedback to the verdicts from the My Perfect Country panel. Members of the audience from vastly different nations give their views of whether the policies could work where they are. And, in cases where they might not – listeners offer alternative suggestions for the countries they would look to instead.
My Perfect Country: Which policies will work? 21 feb 2018
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February 2018
March 2016
Fi Glover, Martha Lane Fox and Henrietta Moore are building an imagined utopia made up of the best solutions to the world’s problems. They look at a sustainable fishing scheme in British Columbia in Canada called catch share, a quota system based on dedicating a secure share of fish to individual fishermen, co-operatives or fishing communities.
Could it work elsewhere? With the help of Erin Priddle from the Environmental Defense Fund, the team discuss the achievements and shortcomings of this model for sustainable commercial fishing and whether it should be adopted as a policy for an imagined perfect country.