Skint: The Truth About Britain’s Broken Economy with Tim Harford

Skint: The Truth About Britain's Broken Economy

Channel 4

‘A sobering investigation…Harford asks a crucial question before the polling stations open next week: how can this actually be fixed?’ Pick of the Day The Guardian

Britain feels underfunded and falling apart. Pot-holes unfilled, sewage overflowing, hospital waiting times lengthening.We used to expect each generation to be richer than their parents. Not any longer.

Politicians argue over the causes, but do any of them have a realistic plan to fix the UK’s broken economy?

On the eve of the General Election, leading thinker Tim Harford, ‘Undercover Economist’ at the Financial Times, and presenter of Radio Four’s ‘More or Less’, cuts through the lies and half-truths by looking at what the numbers really tell us about the state we’re in.

More than any other, there is one economic factor which has got us into this situation. Growth. Or rather, the lack of it. Tim will help us understand why things have gone so badly off the rails, why it is so difficult to fix and suggest how we might climb out of the hole we’ve got ourselves into. With cutting-edge animated graphics, powerful real-life stories and testimony from expert witnesses, Tim Harford provides a fresh analysis notably lacking from much of the mainstream election coverage.