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Colin Butfield, co-founder of Open Planet Studios and a longtime collaborator of Sir David Attenborough, joins The Anton Savage Show to discuss climate storytelling, documentary filmmaking, and his new project with Sir David, Ocean: Earth's Last Wilderness.Listen here. 

Former Tánaiste, Joan Burton, joins The Anton Savage Show to reflect on the anniversary of the 2015 Marriage Equality referendum and what the result meant for Irish society and politics at the time, and what it's legacy remains.Listen here. 

Professor John Crown, consultant medical oncologist; Ursula Savage, political commentator; and Philip Ryan, Head of Content at The Sunday Times Ireland, join Anton to review the Sunday papers and discuss the big stories of the week.Listen here. 

The chancellor has unveiled her long-awaited spending review, which sets out detailed plans for how individual government departments are funded over the next three years. Rachel Reeves says departmental budgets will grow by an average of 2.3% a year, prioritising health, defence ... Show More

From housebuilding to sewage systems to the NHS, private companies are deeply intertwined with our essential public services. But is partnering with big corporations the only way of improving people’s lives? Is private investment a vital ingredient in economic renewal? Or will it ... Show More

We’re waiting longer than ever for hospital appointments, our kids’ schools are literally crumbling, and homelessness has sky-rocketed in the past year. This week’s spring budget was a vital chance for chancellor Jeremy Hunt to respond to the huge problems our country is facing. ... Show More

The Autumn Budget was the most significant since George Osborne implemented austerity in 2010. Rachel Reeves announced one hundred billion pounds for infrastructure, forty billion in tax rises and a whole host of policy changes, which she hopes will deliver Labour’s mission of na ... Show More

Chancellor Rachel Reeves says she's discovered a "£20bn black hole" in the public finances left by the previous government.      In the Commons, she set out her plans to address the funding shortfall through spending cuts, as shadow chancellor Jeremy Hunt accused Labour of using ... Show More

By the time this episode comes out, the new Labour government will have been in charge of the country for one hundred days. So what do we know about how they’ll run the economy? Can they rescue our threadbare public services while promising a tight grip on government spending? An ... Show More

New data shows the economy dipped into recession in the second half of 2023, but does it really matter? Ana Andrade from Bloomberg Economics walks us through the implications. Plus, Ed Arnold from defence think tank The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) joins us to discuss t ... Show More

Can universities make their sums work?   As students nervously receive their A-level results, many of the universities they'll enrol in are facing their own concerns over what's next...       Academics have warned that years of underfunding and a lack of lucrative international s ... Show More

With a £22bn ‘black hole’ in the public finances, the new chancellor Rachel Reeves has difficult decisions to make ahead of Labour’s autumn Budget next month. How might this hole be plugged, and where might tax rises land? In this episode, Dan Neidle, founder of think-tank Tax Po ... Show More