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    Antisocial behaviour - a comparison

    27/10/2026 | 6 mins.
    Antisocial behaviour and what to do about it has long been a concern of governments and ordinary citizens. Within any country or society most people tend to agree what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable behaviour - be it to do with queuing, or playing your music loud in a public space, or using your phone at a cinema. But attitudes differ across different societies. Pontus Strimling of the Institute for Future Studies in Stockholm, Sweden, has been comparing social norms across roughly 90 different countries.
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    Antisocial on antisocial behaviour

    23/10/2026 | 53 mins.
    The battle against antisocial behaviour. "Share the journey, not the noise" - so says the government as it has launched new measures to prevent noise and antisocial behaviour on public transport. It's the latest in a long line of policies by governments of all hues against nuisance behaviours.
    Is antisocial behaviour getting worse? Or are we becoming less tolerant? And do government policies to tackle it actually work?
    Adam Fleming explores all this.
    Presenter: Adam Fleming
    Producers: John Murphy, Annabel Deas and Ellie House
    Studio Manager: Jack Wilfan
    Editor: Penny Murphy
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    What will today's data say about us in the future?

    20/10/2026 | 6 mins.
    We're drowning in data but what will be saved and what will be lost? And how will future researchers and historians remember us? Adam Fleming speaks to Professor Katrin Weller who leads one of Europe's biggest research data archives at the Leibnitz Institute for social sciences in Germany.
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    Who writes our history?

    16/10/2026 | 54 mins.
    Are there enough women writing history and being written about? The broadcaster Sandi Toksvig has announced she is launching an alternative to Wikipedia after claiming the site is "deeply biased". Along with the University of Cambridge, she hopes that her Mappa Mundi project will be an “interactive digital atlas where we can find a home for the vast amount of knowledge that is currently sidelined or deleted”.
    Adam Fleming explores who writes history and how the present will be remembered in the future.
    Presenter: Adam Fleming
    Producers: John Murphy, Lucy Sheppard, Annabel Deas.
    Studio Manager: Andrew Mills
    Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison
    Editor: Penny Murphy
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    Intervening in a crime - what the law says

    13/10/2026 | 6 mins.
    Do we have a duty to intervene if we think a crime is being committed? Adam Fleming spoke to Nick Brett, a partner at the law firm Brett Wilson, about what the legal position is when it comes to intervening in or reporting a crime.
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About AntiSocial
Peace talks for the culture wars. In an era of polarisation, propaganda and pile-ons, AntiSocial offers an alternative: understanding, facts, and respect. Each week, Adam Fleming takes on a topic that's generating conflict on social media, blogs, talk shows and phone-ins and helps you work out what the arguments are really about.
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