The Mission

What are the roots of the UK's productivity problem and what can be done about it? Ravi is joined by John Van Reenen OBE, Professor at London School of Economics, to talk about the state's role in accelerating the fourth industrial revolution and what Rishi Sunak should, and shouldn't, do when we finally emerge from recession.

How do we fix our welfare state? Ravi talks to innovator, social entrepreneur and author of Radical Help, Hilary Cottam, about where the current system falls short and how it could be redesigned for the future.

Mentioned in this episode:

The Robin Murray Living Library can be found here: https://robinmurray.co.uk/the-living-library

Radical Help is available here: https://www.hilarycottam.com/radical-help/

How can we break the link between disadvantage and educational underachievement? Ravi is joined by Becky Francis, the Chief Executive of the Education Endowment Foundation, to discuss what drives the gap, how COVID-19 has made it worse and what we can do about it.

What's happened to trust? In the first episode of the series, Ravi talks to Rachel Botsman, author and authority on trust, about how trust is changing, why trust matters in the age of COVID-19 and how we can innovate around it.