Infrastructure
The Compass. My Perfect City, The green city: San Francisco, USA. Audio, 27 minutes
Is San Francisco’s recycling scheme and sustainable public transport a model to follow?
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
People Fixing The World. Fighting the ‘Water Mafia’ with Pipes in the Sky. Audio, 23 minutes
A project in a Kenyan slum is pumping water through pipes suspended in the air
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Summer in the City. Audio, 28 minutes
How can we adapt and prepare our cities for extreme weather conditions?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Analysis. Disconnected Britain. Audio, 30 minutes
Will new infrastructure spending help all of Britain prosper, or widen its divides?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Analysis. Political Electricity. Audio, 30 minutes
Electricity is crucial to modern life - but will we all get the power we need?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Essay. Looking Good, Lavinia Greenlaw. Audio, 14 minutes
Five writers on the pleasures of viewing a phenomenon or social activity closely.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Gordon Goes Forth. Audio, 28 minutes
Gordon Brown shares the story of the three mighty bridges in whose shadow he lives.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Unavailable
50 Things That Made the Modern Economy. Concrete. Audio, 9 minutes
It's improved health, school attendance, agricultural productivity and farm worker wages
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
A History of Britain in Numbers. Series 2, Infrastucture. Audio, 15 minutes
Andrew Dilnot charts the history of the British state through its numbers.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Build and Be Damned. Audio, 28 minutes
The Victorians built grand ambitious railways, sewers and tunnels. Should we do the same?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
File on 4. Flooding: Best Laid Plans? Audio, 38 minutes
How well prepared is Britain's transport infrastructure to weather the winter storms?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Face the Facts. Northern Ireland Water. Audio, 27 minutes
John Waite investigates what went wrong at Northern Ireland Water.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Building Site. Audio, 28 minutes
Jonathan Glancey investigates the development of a megalopolis in one part of China
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
