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Ep 537: UFOs shot down by the US
7 mins; February 14, 2023
Ep 536: A nuisance at the Tate Modern
6 mins; February 13, 2023
Ep 535: Manchester City charged
6 mins; February 12, 2023
Ep 534: Andrea Riseborough’s Oscars drama
6 mins; February 09, 2023
Ep 533: What killed the Teesside crabs?
7 mins; February 08, 2023
Ep 532: The accusations against Dominic Raab
7 mins; February 08, 2023
Ep 531: Earthquakes hit Turkey and Syria
5 mins; February 06, 2023
Ep 530: The hundred billion dollar drop
6 mins; February 05, 2023
Ep 529: The death of Tyre Nichols
6 mins; February 02, 2023
Ep 528: OpenAI takes on Google
8 mins; February 02, 2023
Ep 527: Striking pay gap
5 mins; January 31, 2023
Ep 526: Probation service failings
6 mins; January 30, 2023
Ep 525: Germany’s difficult tank decision
5 mins; January 29, 2023
Ep 524: Nadhim Zahawi’s taxes
5 mins; January 26, 2023
Ep 523: The Afghan evacuees challenging the government
7 mins; January 25, 2023
Ep 522: The fight against AI art
6 mins; January 25, 2023
Ep 521: Joe Biden’s classified documents
6 mins; January 23, 2023
Ep 520: Flat battery: the collapse of BritishVolt
6 mins; January 23, 2023
Ep 519: A British citizen executed by Iran
6 mins; January 19, 2023
Ep 518: David Carrick: a rapist in the ranks
7 mins; January 18, 2023
Ep 517: Russian splits
5 mins; January 17, 2023
Ep 516: Healing the Ozone layer
7 mins; January 17, 2023
Ep 515: On the frontline of the NHS crisis
7 mins; January 15, 2023
Ep 514: Sport's reckoning with risk
6 mins; January 12, 2023
Ep 513: What next for the UK’s space industry?
6 mins; January 12, 2023
Ep 512: Is Prince Harry winning?
6 mins; January 10, 2023
Ep 511: Riots in Brazil’s Congress
7 mins; January 09, 2023
Ep: 510 Andrew Tate arrested
6 mins; January 09, 2023
Ep 509: China’s Covid numbers
7 mins; January 05, 2023
Ep 508: Within striking distance?
6 mins; January 04, 2023
Ep 507: War aims
6 mins; January 04, 2023
Ep 506: 2023 predictions
7 mins; January 02, 2023
Ep 505: Sheryl Sandberg leaves Meta
8 mins; December 29, 2022
Ep 504: The ghost of Boris Johnson
8 mins; December 29, 2022
Ep 503: Courting controversy
7 mins; December 27, 2022
Ep 502: The women who could change Iran
9 mins; December 27, 2022
Ep 501: Beth Mead's revenge tour
4 mins; December 25, 2022
Ep 500: Comedian, president, wartime leader
6 mins; December 22, 2022
Ep 499: Britain’s housing crusader
6 mins; December 22, 2022
Ep 498: The warrior with a wooden spoon
6 mins; December 20, 2022
Ep 497: Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
7 mins; December 19, 2022
Ep 496: A union leader for our times
6 mins; December 19, 2022
Ep 495: Iran’s public executions
7 mins; December 15, 2022
Ep 494: Taylor’s Swifties fight back
5 mins; December 15, 2022
Ep 493: Crypto contagion
6 mins; December 13, 2022
Ep 492: Strike-hit Britain
6 mins; December 12, 2022
Ep 491: China's Covid gamble
7 mins; December 12, 2022
Ep 490: The allegations against Crispin Odey
8 mins; December 08, 2022
Ep 489: Royal race row
6 mins; December 07, 2022
Ep 488: Dry World Cup stadiums
7 mins; December 06, 2022
Ep 487: Slavery reparations
7 mins; December 06, 2022
Ep 486: The Alzheimer’s drug
8 mins; December 04, 2022
Ep 485: After the final whistle
6 mins; December 01, 2022
Ep 484: The return of a Disney hero
6 mins; November 30, 2022
Ep 483: The boy killed by mould
7 mins; November 29, 2022
Ep 482: China’s Covid protests
7 mins; November 28, 2022
Ep 481: Big pay for big bosses
5 mins; November 27, 2022
Ep 480: Brexit is back
6 mins; November 25, 2022
Ep 479: Fifa’s boss fights back
7 mins; November 23, 2022
Ep 478: Tech giants cut jobs
6 mins; November 23, 2022
Ep 477: Life after climate change
6 mins; November 22, 2022
Ep 476: A brutal killing in the Russia-Ukraine war