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The essential take on big ideas, issues and trends from the 21st century.

Factual slot, The Compass, provides a home for longer factual series to explore topics in greater depth. Each series or sequence of programmes helps to explain the world with a narrative arc across the weeks.

Every series reflects something new and essential about the 21st century with the very best presenters. The approach is authoritative and revelatory but contemporary in sound and feel.