Hi, it's Nicola Cocklin.

Young people have been making history for years, but we don't often hear about them.

My brand new series on BBC Sounds sets out to put this right.

In history's youngest heroes, I'll be revealing the fascinating stories of 12 young people

who've played a major role in history and who've helped shape our world.

Like Audrey Hepburn, Nelson Mandela, Louis Braille,

and Lady Jane Grey, history's youngest heroes with me, Nicola Cochlin. Listen on BBC Sounds.

Hello, I'm Mark Carney. And in my BBC Reith lectures, I'm going to chart how we've come to esteem financial value over human values

and how we've been moving from market economies to market societies.

I'll argue that this has contributed to a series of global crises, of credit, COVID, and climate,

and I'll outline how we can turn this around.

In this first lecture, I'll consider the paradoxes of value and assess how we might find the right

balance between the market and the state.

Welcome to the 2020 BBC Reith Lectures. In this tumultuous year, our lecturer is a man who brings a truly

international perspective to some of the biggest global challenges facing all of us right now. In his

series, How We Get What We Value, he will assess how the world has come to prioritise

financial values over human values. He's going to argue that this has helped lead us into a

minefield of triple threat, credit, COVID and climate. And possibly having scared us all

out of our wits, he's going to suggest what we can do about it.

This year's lecturer has been called a rock star banker, the outstanding central banker of his generation,

and the man with the most comprehensive book of contacts in finance.

After completing a doctorate in economics, he went on to work in some of the biggest global financial institutions

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