Worlds Apart: Mapping Inequality, Danny Dorling and Tim Marshall, Hay Festival Winter Weekend

Why are we growing further and further apart in Britain? Why is inequality an ever greater problem in the UK? Danny Dorling and Tim Marshall, in conversation with journalist Oliver Bullough at a Hay Festival Winter Weekend, discuss the UK's risk of becoming a failed state and the potential to build a fairer future, as well as the importance of astropolitics and mapping the skies as well as the earth.
This is an audio recording, created on 23 November 2023.
One of the UK’s leading geographers, Danny Dorling shows why we are growing further and further apart in his new book Shattered Nation. Looking at hunger, precarity, waste, exploitation and fear, Dorling looks at how Britain, once the leading economy in Europe, is now the most unequal and what we must do to save Britain from becoming a failed state.
Dorling is Halford Mackinder professor of geography at the University of Oxford, and regularly advises the government and the Office for National Statistics.
In Tim Marshall’s new book The Future of Geography, he tackles astropolitics, exploring how politics and geography are as important in the skies as on the ground, and what it all means for us on Earth.
Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs with more than 30 years of reporting experience from countries including Croatia, Bosnia, Israel, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He is the author of Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps that Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics and The Power of Geography: Ten Maps that Reveal the Future of Our World.
Offering powerful insights and giving us a new perspective on our world (and beyond), the pair speak to author and journalist Oliver Bullough.