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Rethink Fairness: Generations

Episode 5 of 5

Amol Rajan and guests discuss whether we have reached a point where generational inequalities must be addressed. And, if so, what sort of changes are required to achieve that.

Rethink Fairness is the latest chapter in Radio 4's Rethink project that ran throughout last year. It is a series of five discussions spread over one week at the start of the new year, presented by Amol Rajan. Its focus is fairness, a theme that emerged time and again in the conversations and essays of 2020. The pandemic brought renewed focus on the economic pain faced by the young who have been disproportionately hit by job losses in retail and hospitality. They will also live with the consequences of climate change, soaring national debt and, depending on where in the country they live, high housing costs. And for many there is the additional burden of student debt. So is now the time to rethink whether we can bring about a fundamental shift in the contract between the generations and, if so, what might that look like?

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Dame Minouche Shafik, director of the London School of Economics, and Ian Goldin, professor of Globalisation and Development at the Oxford Martin School, Oxford University, are joined by three guests in their 20s: Joe Earle, founder of Ecnmy, Tara-Grace Connolly, UN youth delegate, & anti poverty campaigner, Catherine Geddes.

Producer: Louise Hidalgo
Editor: Rosamund Jones

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Fri 8 Jan 2021 16:30

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