The governor of the bank of England is a public servant. He recently claimed that the UK almost went bankrupt at the beginning of the Coronavirus Pandemic. But how does a country that issues its own currency go bust?

The statistics are shocking: 55,000 mothers are pushed out of their jobs every year for being pregnant or needing maternity leave. 77% are actively discriminated against and almost half of all working mums say they earn less now than before they had kids. So how do we end the motherhood penalty?

Jane Elliot is best known as the teacher who, on April 5, 1968, the day afterMartin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, put her third-grade students through a bold exercise to teach them about racial prejudice.

For almost 50 years she has been challenging preconceived ideas about racism and asking why anyone would judge a fellow human being on the colour of their skin. So why are we still here? Host Ross Ashcroft is joined by American political activist Ajamu Baraka, and author and editor of the Black Agenda Report Margaret Kimberley to discuss the ongoing racial tensions in America.