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The Documentary: The edge of change

Rethink: Edge of change

22/06/2020 GMT

The edge of change

BBC World Service - The Documentary, The edge of change

How has the coronavirus pandemic created an opportunity to reshape our world?

Amol Rajan and guests discuss how the coronavirus pandemic has created an opportunity to reshape our world.

Amol Rajan and an international panel of guests discuss how the coronavirus pandemic has created an opportunity to reshape our world. In nations across the globe, it exposes underlying tensions within and between communities - whether over inequality, age, wealth or nationalism. Does this brutal disease paradoxically create the conditions necessary for radical change in our societies, economies and international relations?

Contributors include:
Tony Blair, former British prime minister
Michelle Bachelet, former president of Chile
Kevin Rudd, former Australian prime minister
George Osborne, former British chancellor
Amani al-Khatahtbeh, author, tech entrepreneur and candidate for the United States House of Representatives
Zoltan Kovacs, Hungarian secretary of state for public diplomacy and relations

Producer: Ben Crighton
Researcher: Kirsteen Knight

Part of BBC radio’s Rethink week.

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