Rethink Fairness: Regions

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Rethink Fairness is the latest chapter in Radio 4's Rethink project that ran throughout last year. It is a series of five discussions spread over one week at the start of the new year, presented by Amol Rajan. Its focus is fairness, a theme that emerged time and again in the conversations and essays of 2020. The pandemic brought renewed focus on how different areas of the country fared. There has been political talk - on both the left and the right - for decades about the need to make the regional map of the UK, economically and socially, more equal. Why has that been so difficult to achieve and Is now the time to bring about a fundamental shift? Contributors: Andy Haldane, chief economist at the Bank of England Dame Helena Morrissey, City of London financier and campaigner Paul Swinney, director of policy and research for the independent think-tank, Centre for Cities Dr Joanie Willett, senior lecturer in politics at Exeter University and co-director of the Institute of Cornish Studies Professor Calvin Jones, deputy dean of Cardiff Business School Producer: Louise Hidalgo Editor: Rosamund Jones