The Politics of Incentives
Baroness Ayesha Hazarika, former MP Dehenna Davison and Green Party MP Siân Berry join comedian Matt Forde to explore incentives - and why they so often backfire spectacularly.
Governments are constantly trying to nudge, cajole, bribe and even threaten people into behaving differently. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it goes badly wrong.
Top comedian Matt Forde convenes his Focus Group in front of a live theatre audience, with a politically eclectic panel — Baroness Ayesha Hazarika, former Tory MP Dehenna Davison, and Green Party MP Siân Berry — to dig into one of politics' most fascinating and frustrating puzzles: why do incentives so often produce exactly the opposite of what was intended?
Written and performed by Matt Forde
Additional writing from Karl Minns, Katie Storey and Richard Garvin
Producer: Richard Garvin
Co Producer: Daisy Knight
Broadcast Assistant: Sahar Rajabali
Sound Design and Editing: David Thomas
An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4
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