Listen "Sunlounger economics"
Episode Synopsis
In a week full of elections near and far, Mark Lowen says Sunday's vote in Greece could be the most critical of them all.
Justin Rowlatt is in Kenya noting a huge turnaound in the global economy -- while Europe and the USA are feeling the pain, the rest of the world is steadily getting richer.
Petroc Trelawney's been to find out why a new town in Ireland has houses and a new railway station, but very few people.
Lucy Ash is camping out in the Russian Arctic and seeing how Vladimir Putin's push for further energy supplies is affecting reindeer and their herders
And Alan Johnston, touring the celebrated sights of Rome, tells us there's one particular statue which casts a chill shadow -- even on the sunniest of Spring days.
Justin Rowlatt is in Kenya noting a huge turnaound in the global economy -- while Europe and the USA are feeling the pain, the rest of the world is steadily getting richer.
Petroc Trelawney's been to find out why a new town in Ireland has houses and a new railway station, but very few people.
Lucy Ash is camping out in the Russian Arctic and seeing how Vladimir Putin's push for further energy supplies is affecting reindeer and their herders
And Alan Johnston, touring the celebrated sights of Rome, tells us there's one particular statue which casts a chill shadow -- even on the sunniest of Spring days.
More episodes of the podcast From Our Own Correspondent
Palestinian lives in the occupied West Bank
27/09/2025
Europe's migrant challenge
20/09/2025
Israel's ultimatum for Gaza City
13/09/2025
China eyes a new world order
06/09/2025
Ukraine and the battle for the Donbas
30/08/2025
Putin, Trump and the art of no deal (yet)
23/08/2025
Afghanistan’s hidden lives
16/08/2025
Gaza: a turning point?
02/08/2025
Syria’s sectarian faultlines
26/07/2025