NEW in Understand - The Growth Conundrum Every UK government says it wants strong and sustained economic growth. But for almost 20 years none have managed it. Ben Chu asks why generating growth seems so difficult?
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Signup to Generate a PitchNEW in Understand - The Growth Conundrum Every UK government says it wants strong and sustained economic growth. But for almost 20 years none have managed it. Ben Chu asks why generating growth seems so difficult?
Recent episodes include "The Growth Conundrum: 1. Growing Pains" (26 October 2026, 43 minutes), "The Growth Conundrum: Trailer" (22 October 2026, 2 minutes), and "Seven Ages of Man, with Michael Rosen: 5. Lias Saoudi's in his 40s" (2 October 2026, 15 minutes).
Understand publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 22 minutes across 122 episodes.
Booking probability for Understand is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Understand requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Understand's contact route on record: verified email.
Understand is a news podcast with 122 episodes published.
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Episode #1
Economic growth is something every UK government, up to and including the current one, claims to want above all else. But for almost 20 years, not a single one has been able to deliver sustained national economic...
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Every UK government, up to and including the current one, claims to want to achieve economic growth. But for almost 20 years not a single one has delivered sustained economic expansion. BBC Verify's Policy and Analysis...
What’s it like to be a man in your 40s? In Episode 5 of Michael Rosen’s series about masculinity and manhood, singer and author Lias Saoudi reflects on his transition from chaos to fatherhood. As the lead singer of the...
What’s it like to be a man in your 50s? In Episode 4 of Michael Rosen’s series about manhood and masculinity, journalist, activist and writer Matthew Todd talks about his experience. Matthew grew up feeling completely...
What’s it like being a man in your 60s? In Episode 3 of Michael Rosen’s series about manhood and masculinity, comedian and writer David Baddiel shares his experience. Like all of us, David has always ‘known’ he was...
What is it like being a man in your 70s? In Episode 2 of Michael Rosen’s series about manhood and masculinity, celebrated author and poet Colm Tóibín shares how he feels less and less sexual energy as he ages...
Michael Palin doesn’t feel like a ‘man’ anymore in his 80s. But what does that mean and does it bring a new freedom? In conversation with Michael Rosen – who has recently turned 80 himself – Palin reflects on the fading...
What does being a ‘man’ really mean? From Michael Palin in his 80s to comedian Vittorio Angelone, just turned 30, seven men share their deeply personal experiences of manhood. After almost dying of covid-19, our host...
Episode #3
In this episode, Ros Atkins asks whether AI is solving our ‘value crisis’, or making it worse. He takes the optimistic case seriously - that AI could deepen our relationship with the world around us, unlock new forms of...
Technology is transforming what we value at breakneck speed. But is this really new? In this episode, Ros Atkins looks to four moments when earlier technologies forced a reckoning with value: the printing press, which...
Ros Atkins thinks technology is dramatically shifting what we value in the worlds of friendship, culture, finance and work. In this episode, he sets out to test whether that shift amounts to a crisis - or something...
Episode #5
Technology is changing our lives at breakneck speed. But what is it doing to what we value? From friendship and culture to finance and work, Ros Atkins explores how technology is reshaping our ideas of worth. Has making...
Across three episodes, author and mental health academic Nathan Filer explores neurodivergence: what it means, how children live with it, and how adults navigate its impact in work, relationships and everyday life...
Across three episodes, author and mental health academic Nathan Filer explores neurodivergence: what it means, how children live with it, and how adults navigate its impact in work, relationships and everyday life...
Author and mental health academic Nathan Filer explores neurodivergence: what it means, how children live with it, and how adults navigate its impact in work, relationships and everyday life. Episode one begins with the...
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Nathan Filer explores the complex and shifting terrain of neurodiversity, and what it means to be different. From neurodivergence in childhood, to navigating adulthood.
Facing climate fatigue and denial, a backlash against green policy, and increasingly urgent warnings from scientists, the green movement is shifting into a new era. Two environmentally-minded politicians spell out their...
Just Stop Oil is “hanging up the hi vis” after three years of throwing soup at paintings, interrupting theatre performances, and blocking roads. It’s 2025. They’ve been racking up arrests - and opponents - and now, the...
There are competing protests on either side of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany. It’s 2023, on the eve of the final shutdown of the country's last three remaining nuclear power plants. On one side, anti-nuclear...
Mountain gorillas are thriving in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. The formerly ‘critically endangered’ population has blossomed, hailed around the world as a conservation success story. But to save the gorillas...
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laureate for irish fiction, Irish author
Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
disability educator and advocate, Future Today Strategy Group
author and contributing writer, The New Yorker
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