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Date Title & Description Contributors
2014-01-01

  Simon Garfield: Maps and Mistakes

"How boring would the world be," asks Simon Garfield, "if we knew precisely where everything was?" Simon reflects on the many mistakes and deceptions in some of our best-loved maps. He begins with the map of the London Underground where lines on the m... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2013-12-25

  Jared Diamond: How Geography Creates History

The geographer and polymath Jared Diamond argues that apparently slight differences in geography can have profound consequences for the culture and history of nations. 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2013-12-18

  Jerry Brotton: Mapping History

Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London, argues that how we see the world depends on where we stand on it. He takes us back to the Hereford mappamundi - with its unicorns, griffins, cannibals and fabled citi... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2013-12-11

  Tim Harford: The Power of Maps

Tim Harford returns with a new series of Pop Up Ideas. This time Tim and his guests tell intriguing stories inspired by maps. In the first talk, Tim argues that maps - for all their beauty - can be dangerous. In the hands of powerful people, the map b... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2013-07-30

  Common Tragedy

Tim Harford presents the last in the series, 'Pop-up Ideas'. Tim explores the concept of 'The Tragedy of the Commons' - a term coined by the American ecologist Garrett Hardin in a hugely influential 1968 essay. He compares Hardin's work to that of th... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2013-07-23

  David Kilcullen: Feral Cities

One of the world's most influential counter-insurgency experts, David Kilcullen, whose ideas were described by the Washington Post as "revolutionizing military thinking throughout the West", talks about the time-bomb of rapidly-growing coastal mega-cit... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2013-07-16

  Gillian Tett: The Anthropology of Finance

Tim Harford is joined by Gillian Tett for the second in this new series of talks inspired by ideas in anthropology and the social sciences. The financial journalist describes how her background in anthropology led her to predict the financial crisis i... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2013-07-09

  Malcolm Gladwell: Listening in Vietnam

Tim Harford (the Financial Times' 'Undercover Economist' and presenter of Radio 4's More or Less) is joined by Malcolm Gladwell, David Kilcullen and Gillian Tett for a new series, 'Pop-up Ideas'. Following on from his earlier Radio 4 series 'Pop-up Ec... 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2013-02-13

  Tim Harford: The day the geeks took over poker

Tim tells the story of Chris Ferguson who applied game theory to poker and won - big time. But, as Ferguson would find out, there's always a bigger game. 		  BBC Radio 4 author
2013-02-06

  Tim Harford: The Indiana Jones of Economics

Tim Harford tells the story of Bill Phillips - war hero, engineer, crocodile-hunter, and one of the fathers of macro-economics. 		  BBC Radio 4 author