Decision Making
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Sweet and guests talk about about the tools and processes of decision making today and through history. Justine Greening is a former Secretary of State for Education who is now working on social mobility and levelling up. Professor Bill Sherman heads the Warburg Institute, which has just opened an exhibition about tarot which the filmmaker and magik scholar K A Laity has visited. Gary Stevenson is a former financial trader and the author of The Trading Game, and the philosopher Constantine Sandis is the author of The Things We Do and Why We Do Them.
Producer: Lisa Jenkinson
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| 0:00.0 | Can I just say? |
| 0:01.5 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | It's such a wonderful listen. |
| 0:05.6 | So nice. |
| 0:06.5 | There are loads more like it on BBC sounds. |
| 0:08.8 | Different paces, different heights. |
| 0:10.6 | The roof is buckling. |
| 0:11.9 | Where you can also listen to live sports commentary. |
| 0:14.2 | It's right foot goes for goal. |
| 0:16.7 | And then enjoy even more podcasts full of analysis and reaction to the big stories. |
| 0:21.7 | The stat that is astonishing is they ended with the lowest amount of possession. |
| 0:25.2 | And she's had to live with that. |
| 0:26.8 | So if you love sport, a passion, it's almost like a religion. |
| 0:29.7 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:31.7 | Sort of expecting that every week now. |
| 0:35.8 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:39.7 | Hello, I'm Matthew Sweet and this is the Arts and Ideas podcast. |
| 0:44.4 | Bats, Newt, airlines, architects, environmentalists. |
| 0:48.9 | It's been a massive week for all of them, thanks to the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, |
| 0:53.4 | who did something about which governments are sometimes rather squeamish. |
| 0:57.4 | She made a decision. Heathrow Airport will get a third runway. No cans kicked, no long grass needed. Bish, bash and, if you will, Bosch. |
| 1:08.2 | Now, I've no idea whether this is a good decision, but it is a decision. |
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