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The ideas shaping our lives today - with leading artists and thinkers in extended interview and debate.

Free Thinking: Rivers and geopolitics

Rivers and geopolitics

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Rivers and geopolitics

Global Dams, ancient Rome and the Tiber: rivers, power and scarcity.

Majed Akhter and Dustin Garrick talk to Rana Mitter about a water crisis that is also a crisis of governance plus the role of the Tiber in the founding of ancient Rome.

The world’s large water infrastructure projects often result in geo-political flashpoints - Rana Mitter hears from Majed Akhter about problems from the US to Pakistan while Dustin Garrick outlines a water crisis that is also a crisis in governance and why new management of the Murray-Darling basin in Australia may provide hints about a way forward.  
And aside from Romulus and Remus, what prompted the founding of Ancient Rome.  Archaeologist Andrea Brock outlines her new research that shows the emergence of a new island at a special spot on the Tiber in the 7th century BC led to massive infrastructure projects and urban growth.    

Dr Dustin Garrick is the co-director of the Smith School Water Programme at the University of Oxford and American Association of Science Leshner leadership fellow. 

Dr Majed Akhter is a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker who lectures at King's College, London.  Before becoming a geographer, he was a resource economist and an industrial engineer.

Dr Andrea Brock is a lecturer in ancient history at the University of St Andrews.  


Producer: Jacqueline Smith

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