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Ep 736: Gaza truce: what is Qatar’s role?

6 mins; November 27, 2023

Ep 735: Covid inquiry: how Rishi Sunak ‘handled the scientists’

7 mins; November 27, 2023

Ep 734: Five-inch heels: the rise and rise of Nikki Haley

8 mins; November 24, 2023

Ep 733: Autumn statement: inflation down, but what about taxes?

7 mins; November 22, 2023

Ep 732: Crispr world first: UK approves gene-editing drug

7 mins; November 21, 2023

Ep 731: What is going on at Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital?

9 mins; November 20, 2023

Ep 730: Rwanda asylum plan: what is the ECHR?

5 mins; November 19, 2023

Ep 729: The Captain Tom saga

7 mins; November 17, 2023

Ep 728: Is there a stalemate in Ukraine?

7 mins; November 15, 2023

Ep 727: Rishi's reshuffle

7 mins; November 14, 2023

Ep 726: What happens to Gaza after the war?

6 mins; November 13, 2023

Ep 725: Michelle Mone admits involvement in PPE company

7 mins; November 12, 2023

Ep 724: Israel-Hamas war: what’s happening in the West Bank?

8 mins; November 10, 2023

Ep 723: Why homelessness is rising

8 mins; November 08, 2023

Ep 722: Saudi Arabia’s World Cup coup

6 mins; November 08, 2023

Ep 721: Kidnapped by Hamas: the long wait

6 mins; November 06, 2023

Ep 720: When Rishi met Elon

7 mins; November 05, 2023

Ep 719: Covid inquiry: the wrong crisis for Boris Johnson

7 mins; November 03, 2023

Ep 718: Starmer’s Israel dilemma

6 mins; November 02, 2023

Ep 717: Sacked for a stop and search

6 mins; November 01, 2023

Ep 716: The Gaza tunnels

6 mins; October 31, 2023

Ep 715: Giorgia Meloni’s family values

6 mins; October 30, 2023

Ep 714: Trapped in Gaza: the Scottish First Minister’s family

7 mins; October 26, 2023

Ep 713: Israel’s hostage envoy: who is Gal Hirsch?

5 mins; October 25, 2023

Ep 712: Why is shoplifting on the rise?

5 mins; October 24, 2023

Ep 711: What is Hezbollah?

7 mins; October 23, 2023

Ep 710: Why are prisons so full?

7 mins; October 22, 2023

Ep 709: The Gaza hospital blast

6 mins; October 19, 2023

Ep 708: Game on: what the Microsoft-Activision deal means for gamers

7 mins; October 19, 2023

Ep 707: Blinken tries to calm the Middle East

6 mins; October 17, 2023

Ep 706: Kidnapped by Hamas: the story of one Israeli hostage

8 mins; October 16, 2023

Ep 705: ADHD drug shortages start to bite

7 mins; October 15, 2023

Ep 704: Netanyahu and the state of Israel

8 mins; October 13, 2023

Ep 703: Gaza and the West Bank explained

5 mins; October 11, 2023

Ep 702: What is Hamas?

8 mins; October 10, 2023

Ep 701: Israel and Hamas at war

7 mins; October 09, 2023

Ep 700: Why the removal of the US speaker is a win for Trump and Putin

7 mins; October 08, 2023

Ep 699: Rishi Sunak and the winds of change

8 mins; October 05, 2023

Ep 698: Don't let the bed bugs bite

5 mins; October 04, 2023

Ep 697: Musk’s brainchild: Neuralink recruits for human trials

8 mins; October 03, 2023

Ep 696: A ‘death’ in Crimea

6 mins; October 02, 2023

Ep 695: How the Hollywood strikes have hit the UK

7 mins; October 01, 2023

Ep 694: Cancelled: one train and a 186-mile taxi ride

7 mins; September 28, 2023

Ep 693: Murdoch’s succession: how much power will Lachlan have?

6 mins; September 28, 2023

Ep 692: The frontline of Europe’s migrant crisis

6 mins; September 26, 2023

Ep 691: Why is Keir Starmer talking about a new EU deal?

7 mins; September 25, 2023

Ep 690: A murder in Surrey

7 mins; September 24, 2023

Ep 689: Hero to Net Zero: why is Rishi Sunak scrapping green policies?

6 mins; September 21, 2023

Ep 688: Russell Brand: the allegations, and his response

9 mins; September 20, 2023

Ep 687: Bernard Looney’s business relationships

6 mins; September 19, 2023

Ep 686: Is climate change to blame for the disaster in Libya?

6 mins; September 18, 2023

Ep 685: Kim Jong-un on the Siberian express

6 mins; September 17, 2023

Ep 684: The race to combat new Covid variants

5 mins; September 14, 2023

Ep 683: Bully XL dog attacks: is a ban the solution?

5 mins; September 13, 2023

Ep 682: Westminster China spy suspect: what we know so far

5 mins; September 12, 2023

Ep 681: How weight loss injections are reshaping Denmark

5 mins; September 12, 2023

Ep 680: Who is Boris Johnson’s baroness?

5 mins; September 11, 2023

Ep 679: Iran: one year on from the death of Mahsa Amini

5 mins; September 07, 2023

Ep 678: Martha’s Rule: how a 13-year-old died unnecessarily from sepsis

8 mins; September 06, 2023

Ep 677: Crumbling Britain

8 mins; September 06, 2023

Ep 676: What the death of a Ukrainian pilot tells us about the war against Russia

5 mins; September 04, 2023

Ep 675: Can Britain work with China?

7 mins; September 03, 2023

Ep 674: Luis Rubiales: Spanish football’s MeToo moment?

6 mins; August 31, 2023

Ep 673: Disaster averted: defusing the ‘time bomb’ tanker

6 mins; August 31, 2023

Ep 672: Oliver Anthony: America’s unlikely star

6 mins; August 30, 2023

Ep 671: A family’s apology for slavery

7 mins; August 28, 2023

Ep 670: Prigozhin’s plane crash: what next?

6 mins; August 24, 2023

Ep 669: Japan’s radioactive water release

6 mins; August 24, 2023

Ep 668: Lucy Letby: what happens next?

6 mins; August 22, 2023

Ep 667: Spain’s World Cup triumph… overshadowed

6 mins; August 21, 2023

Ep 666: The trials of Rudy Giuliani

6 mins; August 20, 2023

Ep 665: Missing MP: where is Nadine Dorries?

7 mins; August 17, 2023

Ep 664: What happened to the Crooked House pub?

6 mins; August 16, 2023

Ep 663: Hawaii wildfires: why were they so deadly?

6 mins; August 15, 2023

Ep 662: Sanctions, what sanctions?

7 mins; August 14, 2023

Ep 661: Megan Thee Stallion says she’ll “never be the same"

6 mins; August 13, 2023

Ep 660: Phoenix’s month from hell

6 mins; August 10, 2023

Ep 659: Cookham Wood: a failing youth prison

6 mins; August 10, 2023

Ep 658: Immortal cells: Henrietta Lacks' family settle lawsuit

6 mins; August 09, 2023

Ep 657: Niger’s coup

5 mins; August 07, 2023

Ep 656: The Post Office scandal continues

6 mins; August 07, 2023

Ep 655: UFOs discussed in Congress

7 mins; August 05, 2023

Ep 654: Putin’s useful madman

7 mins; August 03, 2023

Ep 653: Trump charged with conspiracy

7 mins; August 03, 2023

Ep 652: Andrew Malkinson’s wrongful conviction

7 mins; August 01, 2023

Ep 651: Mbappe, Henderson and the Saudi football league

6 mins; July 31, 2023

Ep 650: Twitter becomes X: why?

6 mins; July 30, 2023

Ep 649: Why Israel’s judicial overhaul is causing unrest

6 mins; July 27, 2023

Ep 648: Do clean air zones work?

5 mins; July 27, 2023

Ep 647: Actors strike over AI and pay

6 mins; July 25, 2023

Ep 646: Nigel Farage vs. Coutts

7 mins; July 24, 2023

Ep 645: The Bibby Stockholm: savings or symbolism?

6 mins; July 23, 2023

Ep 644: El Niño heats up

6 mins; July 20, 2023

Ep 643: Women’s World Cup: equality is the goal

5 mins; July 19, 2023

Ep 642: Aspartame and cancer: what the evidence says

6 mins; July 18, 2023

Ep 641: Wage rise worries

6 mins; July 17, 2023

EP 640: Joe Biden’s Hunter problem

6 mins; July 17, 2023

Ep 639: Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta

6 mins; July 13, 2023

Ep 638: Just Stop Oil stops play

6 mins; July 12, 2023

Ep 637: Where is Yevgeny Prigozhin?

6 mins; July 11, 2023

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