Rethink
Hosted by Ben Ansell · BBC Sounds
4.9from 48 ratings
- 118
- Episodes
- 36
- Transcribed
- 48
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Rethink
Professor Ben Ansell asks some of the world's sharpest minds about the latest thinking, and what it might mean for policy and society.
- Publisher
- BBC Sounds
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 Jun 2020
- Latest episode
- 1 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
36 of 118 episodes have a transcript.
1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Rethink: manufacturing or services?
24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Rethink... what we put into space
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Rethink... warfare
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Rethink: manufacturing or services?
Published 1 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We spent three years really trying to understand what the impact of servitization actually is. We very carefully selected 700 firms across the UK. We spent time very carefully interviewing these to understand what services they're offering. For 400 of these firms, We also look back at their financial performance over the past 16 years. And what we found was this move to services in a manufacturing firm had a very dramatic impact upon the productivity of the firm and the revenue growth of the firm. If you think about a firm which earns 80% of its revenue from product, Just a 1% move towards offering more services could grow the productivity of that firm by 2%. […]
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- Tim Minshall
- Diane Coyle
- Tim Baines
- Matt Skipworth
- Andy Neely
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 9 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 39 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 46 / 100
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- Quality
- 71
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 51
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Who hosts Rethink?
Ben Ansell host the show. Published by BBC Sounds.
How often do new episodes come out?
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Does Rethink take guests?
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