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What are the big ideas shaping our world?  This new series from the BBC World Service picks the best ideas from economics to psychology, neuroscience to philosophy, political science to anthropology, and makes them easy to digest.

Each episode of "The Big Idea" outlines the important idea through the words of the person who’s developed the theory. In just nine minutes we offer a weekly chance to listen and feel just a little bit wiser.

The Big Idea: Fighting pandemics

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Fighting pandemics

19/12/2020 GMT

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The 2020 pandemic has transformed our world, but it won’t be the last to do so

The 2020 pandemic has transformed our world, but it won’t be the last to do so. How should we prepare for the future?

The 2020 pandemic has transformed our world, but it won’t be the last to do so. How should we prepare for the future? Along with one of the world’s leading epidemiologists, David Edmonds explores the science of pandemics – and why it is so uncertain.

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