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High Speed 2 and Executive Pay

Tim Harford looks at the arguments for high speed rail, investigates executive pay and resolves a four-year-old bet on climate change.

Tim Harford looks at the arguments for high speed rail with railway consultant Chris Stokes and Alison Munro from HS2 Ltd. He investigates the different measures of the rise in executive pay with Steve Tatton from Income Data Services and Sarah Wilson from research group Manifest. He resolves a four year-old bet on climate change between climate scientist James Annan and astrophysicist David Whitehouse and Wesley Stephenson looks behind the figures for youth unemployment in Spain.

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  • Fri 13 Jan 201216:30
  • Sun 15 Jan 201220:00

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