The Chinese Communist Party celebrated its centenary recently. In 1921 China was a poor country dominated by foreign powers. One hundred years later it’s an emerging superpower with the party and its leader Xi Jinping tightly in control. So how does President Xi see China’s future?

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Folge vom 15.07.2021100 years of the Chinese communist party
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Folge vom 14.07.2021What makes great teaching and great schools?Inspired teaching can change lives. What are the ingredients of great teaching, and great schools?
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Folge vom 13.07.2021Improving the way we make decisionsIf you’re trying to make a decision you collect all the data, weigh up the alternatives and come to a logical conclusion. That’s how it’s supposed to happen. But in real life decisions are made on the run, you follow your intuition or fall back on what you did last time. Psychologist Daniel Kahneman has made a career of understanding how we make decisions and judgements. And how we can be better at it.
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Folge vom 12.07.2021Jess Hill-urgent action needed to tackle domestic abuseThe statistics are overwhelming. One woman in four has experienced violence from an intimate partner according to national surveys. And there’s a campaign to introduce laws which deal with the insidious nature of coercive control. Journalist Jess Hill has spent many years investigating domestic violence. She speaks to Kerry O'Brien about our failure to adequately deal with the causes or the crime.