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Crossing Channels is a government podcast hosted by Bennett School of Public Policy & Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. It has 46 episodes, with the latest published March 2026.

Monthly podcast series produced by the Bennett School of Public Policy (University of Cambridge) and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (Toulouse School of Economics) to give interdisciplinary answers to today's challenging questions. Hosted by Richard Westcott (former BBC journalist and now the communications director for Cambridge University Health Partners and the Cambridge Biomedical Campus) with guest experts from both universities. Subscribe to the Crossing Channels podcast feed https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1841488.rss & download each episode at the start of the month.

government ·en-us ·46 episodes

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1

What can't money buy?

2

Can we make climate policy fair and effective?

3

Is intellectual capital the key to future prosperity?

4

What really drives inequality?

5

Are universities ready for the age of AI?

6

How does migration change our world?

7

What is the value of speaking other languages?

8

Why do we choose what we choose?

9

How can we make food that is good for health, societies, the planet and the economy?

10

Can Europe ever catch up to the US in technology?

11

How can green finance drive the clean transition?

12

How are data and algorithms impacting our lives?

13

Is the world becoming less democratic?

14

What is happening to young people’s mental health?

15

Does prison work?

16

Should there be a compulsory retirement age for society's leaders?

17

Who pays the price of colonialism today?

18

What's the point of a protest?

19

Can governments regulate AI without stifling innovation?

20

Why are women disadvantaged in the workplace?

21

Can economic growth and sustainability coexist?

22

How can universal basic infrastructure support growth?

23

Can technology rescue ailing health services?

24

The world’s problems are interdisciplinary – why is academic research so siloed?

25

How big a problem is short-termism in government?

26

What is the future of religion?

27

Are countries becoming harder to govern?

28

Are emerging technologies more hype than reality?

29

Should children have the right to vote?

30

Is technology changing our behaviour?

31

Why are stories important for society?

32

Ukraine war - how can academics apply their expertise?

33

How much do people care about inequality?

34

Wellbeing at work - whose job is it to fix it?

35

Has digital technology made us better off?

36

What can political leaders learn from history?

37

How might policy steer us towards better decision-making?

38

Can democratic political leaders ever meet our expectations?

39

Is it the government's job to make us happy?

40

Ukraine invasion: context, consequences and the information war

41

Will Levelling Up Work?

42

Broadband before bridges: can digital technologies leapfrog the obstacles to development?

43

Can artificial intelligence be ethical?

44

What is nature's role in the economy?

45

Why has it become so hard to run government? The role of civil servants and decision-making in society today.

46

Launching Crossing Channels

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