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Rethink

Rethink Population

Is demography destiny?

Duration: 42 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Available for over a year

In a new five-part Rethink series, Amol Rajan and guests challenge some of our long-held assumptions about population change. Are there really too many people in the world - or will some countries actually end up with too few?

GUESTS

Rt Hon. Lord David Willets, President of the Advisory Council and Intergenerational Centre of the Resolution Foundation

Professor Anna Rotkirch, Director, Population Research Institute, Väestöliitto, Finland

Professor Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development at the University of Oxford

Poonam Muttreja, Executive Director, Population Foundation of India

Presenter: Amol Rajan
Producer: Rob Walker
Editor: Kirsty Reid Show less

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