What Went Right in 2016?
The Inquiry
BBC
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2016
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
A lot has gone wrong this year. We are not talking about Brexit or the election of Donald Trump – both of which split opinion in Britain and the US. We are talking about terror attacks, the brutal conflict in Syria, and the thousands of migrants who died trying to reach Europe.
Good things did happen. But the good news was mostly buried under the bad. So we wanted to find about four things that went right in 2016. And, we talked to the people who made those things happen. Four amazing stories united by one thing - the ambition of a small number of extraordinary people to achieve the seemingly impossible. (Photo: Betrand Piccard in his pilot seat, permission from Solar Impulse, Teresita Gaviria watches the announcement made by the Colombian government and the FARC guerrillas, Getty Images, Sophien Kamoun and Dr Herath with kind permission)
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| 0:00.0 | A few weeks ago here at Inquiry Headquarters, we got together to talk about what we should do for the |
| 0:05.1 | final show of the year. That's this show. We started throwing ideas around, but there was one thing |
| 0:10.9 | we kept coming back to again and again. |
| 0:14.0 | This year has been terrible. |
| 0:17.0 | Really terrible. |
| 0:18.0 | Whatever your politics, whoever you voted for, |
| 0:21.0 | a lot of bad things happened. |
| 0:23.2 | There's the thousands of migrants who died in the med, |
| 0:28.9 | the war in Syria, zeka virus, terror attacks all over the world. |
| 0:34.4 | We saw the hottest temperatures ever recorded. |
| 0:37.0 | In conflict monitoring groups said the world became less peaceful. |
| 0:40.9 | And as if all that wasn't bad enough, David Bowie died. |
| 0:45.0 | It's all pretty depressing. |
| 0:48.0 | So, we decided we wouldn't talk about any of that, |
| 0:51.0 | because chances are you already know about all the bad stuff and you're |
| 0:55.6 | probably sick of hearing about it. I'm Helena Merriman and this is the inquiry and this week we |
| 1:01.9 | have an end of year gift for you. |
| 1:04.0 | We're going to tell you about four good things that happened this year. |
| 1:10.0 | In fact, not just good things. |
| 1:13.0 | Four amazing things. |
| 1:15.0 | Things you may not have noticed. |
| 1:17.0 | That's it. |
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