Rebuilding Britain Episode 1: A Short History of Building Ourselves Out of Trouble

This is Rebuilding Britain. The podcast from the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics with David Shukman and Sepi Golzari-Munro where we uncover how Britain was built and how we might build back better. We’re talking about infrastructure, the scaffolding which underpins a society and the investment needed to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.

Episode 1 features Dimitri Zenghelis from LSE explaining why we need to invest to beat the rest, Professor Barbara Evans from the University of Leeds delving into the murky history of Victorian sewers and Professor Judy Stephenson from UCL on why we’ve been getting our sums wrong.