Futurenext: Re Imagining Our World & Conquering Uncertainty

(Re)Imagining the world: Children’s Literature’s Response to Changing Times considers how writers of fiction for children imagine ‘the world’, not one universal world, but different worlds: imaginary, strange, familiar, even monstrous worlds.

Angela Merkel bows out this autumn after 16 years as German Chancellor. In that time she has been a key player on the world stage, but how has she changed her own country? Jenny Hill travels across Germany - from school proms in Berlin to forests in the Harz Mountains - to discover how Angela Merkel has shaped it.

Examines the murder of a young French nanny, 21-year-old Sophie Lionnet, whose body was then burned in the back garden of a south London home. Featuring interviews with friends, neighbours and Old Bailey reporters.

More than 25 million people go on cruises each year. As coronavirus spread throughout the world, cruise ships suffered devastating outbreaks that resulted in thousands being infected and dozens dying. Our World tells the story of three ships and the passengers on them and asks the question: how can cruising be made safe again?

One year on, Jane Corbin returns to the island and meets three of those whose lives were changed that day and who have set out to help rebuild the Sri Lanka they love.