Podcasts and Radio
Trend Following with Michael Covel
Michael Covel with Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay discuss their new book, Roadkill: Unveiling the True Cost of Our Toxic Relationship with Cars, touching upon the social and environmental impact of cars, urban design and car-centric infrastructure, alternatives to car ownership, public transport safety and social issues, and cultural attitudes toward community and individualism.
Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, and iHeartRadio.
The British Academy
Campus Talks: Unlocking people power through citizen science
This episode of the Campus podcast explores the growing field of citizen science, which goes by many labels including participatory research, civic science and non-academic research. Whatever your preferred terminology, the basis of all this work is the involvement of non-academic participants. Sarah and Miranda speak to three strong proponents of this approach to research who explain how and why it can be such a powerful way to unlock knowledge and seek innovative solutions.
Read Henrietta’s resource that provided the inspiration for this podcast, “Unlocking knowledge within local communities as part of ‘levelling up’”.
Great Thinkers: Richard Fardon FBA on Mary Douglas FBA
Henrietta joins Professor Richard Fardon to discuss eminent British social anthropologist Mary Douglas. Listen on Spotify.
July 2019
BBC World Service
The Compass: My Perfect Country
My Perfect Country brings together broadcaster Fi Glover, digital entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox, and Professor Henrietta Moore to imagine an ideal nation built from the world’s most effective policies.
The series explores innovative solutions to global challenges - from women’s sanitation in India, to sustainable fishing in Canada, disaster preparedness in Cuba, refugee integration in Germany, gender equality in Rwanda, maternal healthcare in Nepal, and prison reform in Norway.
Through expert insights, local voices, and real-life testimonies, the hosts weigh the successes and shortcomings of these policies and ask whether they could be adapted elsewhere. Audience members also contribute their own experiences and ideas, helping to shape a collective vision of what a truly “perfect country” might look like.
All 22 episodes are available on the BBC, here.
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.
Thinking Allowed: ‘New’ biological relatives and kinship
Laurie Taylor talks to Sarah Franklin, Professor in Sociology at the University of Cambridge, about her study into the meaning and impact of IVF. Has the creation of new biological relatives transformed our notion of kinship? They're joined by Henrietta Moore, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
Thinking Allowed: Still Life
Is tradition under threat from capitalism, or are we overly negative about the cultural impact of globalisation? Henrietta Moore challenges what she sees as despair about the impact of international capitalism and new technology and claims that globalisation is just as likely to improve the human experience. She tells Laurie Taylor that her new theory about how we create culture, rejects the notion that it is ever 'imposed' from abroad.
Sept 2025
Thinking Allowed: Moral Relativism
Laurie Taylor is joined by Professor Steven Lukes, author of a book on moral relativism, Henrietta Moore, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and Professor Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law at the London School of Economics, to discuss relationship of culture and morality in the debate on a universal notion of human rights.
Jan 2019
The Compass: My Perfect Country
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.
Thinking Allowed: Foie Gras and the politics of taste
Laurie Taylor talks to Michaela DeSoucey, Assistant Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University, about the controversies that surround this luxury product. What makes us see some foods as 'wrong' and worthy of prohibition? They're joined by the distinguished anthropologist, Henrietta Moore.
The Compass: My Perfect Country
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.
BBC Radio 4
March 2015
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4
The Source with David Martin Davies
Can we afford the cost of car culture? The Source is a daily, one-hour call-in talk program that gives listeners in San Antonio the opportunity to call and connect with in-studio guests and city-wide audience. Prof. Henrietta L. Moore and Arthur Kay were guests to discuss Roadkill and the hidden costs of car culture.
Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Texas Public Radio.