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The Age of Uncertainty
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Series 1: 13. 13. Weekend In Vermont
Over a relaxed weekend, a distinguished international gathering at John Kenneth Galbraith's Vermont farm offer their views on the themes outlined in the series and on other majo ...
30-11-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 12. 12. Democracy, Leadership, Commitment
Prof JK Galbraith sets out on a physical and figurative journey to recapture his experience of democracy, comparing politics in Switzerland, Britain and the US and emphasising N ...
23-11-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 11. 11. The Metropolis
'The city is the focus of the problems of modern society - its uncertainty, crisis, hope, despair.'\n\nProf Galbraith looks at the economic and social forces that turned the mag ...
23-11-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 9. 9. The Big Corporation
JK Galbraith explores the modern large corporation - 'the most relentless force for change in modern economic life'.
16-11-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 10. 10. Land And The People
In Mexico and the Punjab, on the cotton fields of the old South and the farm where he was born, Prof Galbraith confronts the tragedy of the landless poor and searches for a solu ...
16-11-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 7. 7. The Mandarin Revolution
JK Galbraith looks at the influence of John Maynard Keynes, who drew the blueprint for the postwar economic boom, and recalls his own involvement in those momentous years.
09-11-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 8. 8. The Fatal Competition
JK Galbraith visits the ruins of postwar Berlin, the corridors of power in the Pentagon and 'the world's largest used plane lot' in his assessment of the contemporary roots of war.
09-11-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 6. 6. The Rise And Fall Of Money
From the elegant banks of 17th-century Amsterdam to the dark days of the Great Depression, Prof Galbraith traces the history of money - its uses and abuses, the grand successes ...
02-11-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 5. 5. Lenin And The Great Unglueing
JK Galbraith examines WWI as an instrument in changing the old social order, and especially Lenin, who spent most of the war exiled in Switzerland urging soldiers to start a wor ...
02-11-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 4. 4. The Colonial Idea
Professor Galbraith traces the colonial adventure, from the Crusades to the present, from the fall of Acre to the fall of Saigon. He looks at the potent myths that sustained col ...
26-10-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 3. 3. Karl Marx - The Massive Dissent
JK Galbraith investigates the impact of Karl Marx on our economic interpretation of society. The life and work of Marx set the pattern for a socialist future, but the revolution ...
26-10-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 2. 2. The Manners And Morals Of High Capitalism
Professor Galbraith looks at the ideas that sustained the rich in the 19th century and how they still affect our attitudes today. Herbert Spencer justified the moneymaking in st ...
19-10-2025
BBC 4
Series 1: 1. 1. The Prophets And Promise Of Classical Capitalism
John Kenneth Galbraith tells the story of the men who laid the foundations of economics, including Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Thomas Malthus. What they made of the world of t ...
19-10-2025
BBC 4