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 how we value those who have kept shelves stacked, transport running and the old and sick cared for. So is now the time to bring about a fundamental shift in how our society and economy work? The first programme looks at wealth in the UK - who has it and how that has changed over the decades, if it is becoming harder to acquire and whether or not that matters.

Contributors
Paul Johnson, economist and director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies
Mohammed El Erian, chief economic adviser at financial services multinational Allianz and president of Queens’ College, Cambridge
Dame Louise Casey, former homelessness tsar and adviser to four prime ministers on social issues
Karolina Gerlich, ex-care worker and head of the Care Workers Charity

Producer: Louise Hidalgo
Editor: Rosamund Jones Show less