Last week was results week for the UK's big banks. Has anything changed since we bailed them out? Christine Berry, Senior Researcher at NEF, joins Kirsty to discuss.

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Grab yourself a mid-afternoon cuppa and settle down to a genuinely inspiring podcast with tax campaigner Richard Murphy.

Some, like Google, are finding ever-more-complex ways to avoid it, Richard thinks it's one of our best democratic tools. 

By the end I was ready to go down to HMRC…

The concept of ‘democracy' shields those without power from total exploitation and domination by those who posses it. The fulcrums of power lie within the state, the market and civil society. Increasingly, power is dissipating away from civil society by the continuous erosion of democracy. It won’t be given back. The cavalry is not coming. To regain lost ground requires that we exercise democracy, not talk about it, dream about it or hold out the begging bowl. We seldom…

This week Kirsty is joined by Lord Adair Turner, former Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, to talk about the UK's low interest rate and problems with household debt.

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This week Kirsty is joined by junior doctor Ben Bouquet to talk about the strikes planned for this week, and the challenges faced by the NHS.

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GDP grew by 0.5% in the last quarter of 2015 - but what does that mean, and is it even the right thing to measure? Kirsty chats to Juliet Michaelson, associate director of the wellbeing team at the New Economics Foundation.

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