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James Naughtie examines the ideas tying America's founding to the modern United States. Unravelling the complexities of the biggest stories and subjects that really matter right now.
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- 4 days ago14 min
Rinsed: 8. Sorry?
New legislation promises to slash the sewage released into rivers, but will it become law?Reported and presented by Kate Lamble Producer: Elle Scott Sound Design: Andy Fell Executive Producer: Joe Kent Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan ClarkeRinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4
- 4 days ago15 min
Rinsed: 7. The Eureka Moment
The data scientist, the ex-detective and the politician trying to clean up our rivers.Reported and presented by Kate Lamble Producer: Elle Scott Sound Design: Andy Fell Executive Producer: Joe Kent Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan ClarkeRinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4
- 1 weeks ago15 min
Rinsed: 6. The Lion's Cage
The view from inside the Environment Agency, the body which enforces environmental standards for water companies in England. Reported and presented by Kate Lamble Producer: Elle Scott Sound Design: Andy Fell Executive Producer: Joe Kent Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan ClarkeRinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4
- 1 weeks ago15 min
Rinsed: 5. The Camel's Humps
Rivers work when everything is in balance, but what happens when things are thrown off course? Peter Hammond draws on his past as an academic specialising in machine learning to spot a problem everyone else has missed and expose what he believes is a national scandal.
- 2 weeks ago15 min
Rinsed: 4. Inkblot
We can all look the same picture, but what you make of it depends on who you are. Kate Lamble attempts to untangle the financial engineering that underpins parts of the water industry.Reported and presented by Kate Lamble Producer: Elle Scott Sound Design: Andy Fell Executive Producer: Joe Kent Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan ClarkeRinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4
- 2 weeks ago15 min
Rinsed: 3. Turd Nerds
The 'Dossier of Despair' that reveals what's happening to some of Britain’s rivers. A retired police detective, a former machine learning academic, an ex-water industry insider and their neighbours join forces to dig for data. But will anyone listen to the campaigners calls for change?Reported and presented by Kate Lamble Producer: Elle Scott Sound Design: Andy Fell Executive Producer: Joe Kent Commissioning Executive: Tracy Willimas Commissioning Editor: Dan ClarkeRinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4
- 3 weeks ago14 min
Rinsed: 2. Water Works
The centuries old battle between public good and private profit that’s still being fought today. Kate Lamble holds her nose and plunges into the long history of the water industry and some of the many conflicts that have shaped it.Reported and presented by Kate Lamble Producer: Elle Scott Sound Design: Andy Fell Executive Producer: Joe Kent Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan ClarkeRinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4
- 3 weeks ago14 min
Rinsed: 1. The Bridge
After watching their local river grow murky and lifeless, two retired neighbours decide to take on the water industry and its regulators. The unlikely sleuths begin a ten-year battle to clean up our rivers.On the banks of the River Windrush in Oxfordshire, Kate Lamble meets campaigners Ash Smith and Peter HammondReported and presented by Kate Lamble Producer: Elle Scott Sound Design: Andy Fell Executive Producer: Joe Kent Commissioning Executive: Tracy Williams Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke Rinsed is a BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4
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