Christmas Specials

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How the young Winston Churchill escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp

And what his unlikely tale reveals about imperialism

The economics of technology

A short history of tractors in English

What the tractor and the horse tell you about generative AI

From star to power

Why Tamil movie heroes become politicians

Fan clubs can quickly become get-out-the-vote operations

In kob we trust

On safari in South Sudan, one of the world’s most dangerous countries

The planet’s biggest conservation project is in its least developed nation

A rush for colourless gold

Meet the boffins and buccaneers drilling for hydrogen

The search is on for a clean fuel that could one day replace oil

The green man’s burden

What responsibilities do individuals have to stop climate change?

The nature of climate change makes that a tricky question

Hollywood and AI

AI is stalking the last lions of Hollywood

The first actors to lose their jobs to artificial intelligence are four-legged

Desert island dismal science

Why economists love “Robinson Crusoe”

The classic yarn of a shipwrecked sailor reveals a lot about scarcity

Free speech, gay rights and waterfowl

A tale of penguins and prejudice is a parable of modern America

When two male penguins hatched an egg in Central Park, they set off an enduring controversy

Following Fatimah’s sandals

What the journey of a pair of shoes reveals about capitalism

And how Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country, is changing

Cereal killer

The life-giving, death-dealing power of corn

Maize fed ancient civilisations, then wiped out 100,000 American Southerners. What went wrong?

Life does not stop

How five Ukrainian cities are coping, despite Putin’s war

From ravers to rubbish collectors, residents tells their stories