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Greece is burning... is climate change to blame?

28 mins; July 26, 2023

Why single women are going to Denmark to become mothers

26 mins; July 25, 2023

The Ukrainian spymaster who Putin wants dead

31 mins; July 24, 2023

How a fake AI ‘you’ could con your parents out of thousands

29 mins; July 23, 2023

Why Hollywood shut down

28 mins; July 20, 2023

How giant pandas became China’s furry diplomats

26 mins; July 19, 2023

Should Rishi Sunak fear a by-election disaster?

27 mins; July 19, 2023

A bright pink cultural history of Barbie

28 mins; July 17, 2023

Why a group of Scottish islands wants to join Norway

26 mins; July 16, 2023

Huw Edwards, the BBC, The Sun and the media storm

30 mins; July 13, 2023

'This generation is more dangerous': The new West Bank resistance

33 mins; July 12, 2023

The orca uprising: Why killer whales are attacking boats

25 mins; July 11, 2023

Behind enemy lines: Meet the secret Ukrainian counter offensive

28 mins; July 10, 2023

Could Ukraine really join Nato? A former secretary-general answers

32 mins; July 09, 2023

What happens when antibiotics stop working?

24 mins; July 06, 2023

“The culture is rotten”: What is wrong with English cricket?

30 mins; July 05, 2023

How a killing by French police led to a week of riots

30 mins; July 04, 2023

Just who are Just Stop Oil?

31 mins; July 03, 2023

How Putin might fall: A lesson from 1991

27 mins; July 02, 2023

The Wuhan lab (Pt 2): The shadow project

38 mins; June 29, 2023

The Wuhan lab (Pt 1): Mutant viruses and risky experiments

35 mins; June 28, 2023

The plan to overthrow Europe’s last dictator

31 mins; June 27, 2023

Will high interest rates cause a housing crash?

26 mins; June 26, 2023

The Wagner mutiny: Is this the beginning of the end for Putin?

33 mins; June 25, 2023

Migration: How Europe as we know it is changing for good

29 mins; June 22, 2023

Why victims of the Windrush scandal are still waiting for justice

35 mins; June 21, 2023

A British woman is jailed for abortion - does the law need to change?

30 mins; June 20, 2023

How Saudi Arabia is buying up the sport of golf

30 mins; June 19, 2023

Inside Vogue: Fashion's ultimate power struggle

27 mins; June 18, 2023

The criminal charges that could send Trump to prison

25 mins; June 15, 2023

Inside the operation to bring down Italy's most feared mafia clan

27 mins; June 14, 2023

Is Kim Jong-un’s sister North Korea’s true leader?

27 mins; June 13, 2023

Boris Johnson resigns. Now what?

29 mins; June 12, 2023

The NHS nurse accused of murdering babies: Lucy Letby on trial

29 mins; June 11, 2023

Planet Hope: Forecasting volcanic eruptions with Andrew McGonigle

41 mins; June 09, 2023

What to expect from the Covid inquiry

31 mins; June 08, 2023

Can Rishi Sunak really stop the small boats?

31 mins; June 07, 2023

Why the Tories are tearing themselves apart over housing

28 mins; June 06, 2023

Investigation: The black market behind your takeaway

32 mins; June 05, 2023

Z Generation: Into the heart of Russia's fascist youth

26 mins; June 04, 2023

Planet Hope: Alleviating human-wildlife conflict with Krithi Karanth

36 mins; June 02, 2023

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: Daniel Finkelstein on his family’s miraculous survival

27 mins; June 01, 2023

Inside Kenya’s doomsday death cult

26 mins; May 31, 2023

Why the British Isles still hosts the world’s most dangerous race

26 mins; May 30, 2023

How Russia’s Wagner group took over the Central African Republic

32 mins; May 29, 2023

Photographing five prime ministers

24 mins; May 28, 2023

Planet Hope: Predicting the Earth’s climate with Tom Matthews

41 mins; May 26, 2023

Are the water companies really making our rivers cleaner?

27 mins; May 25, 2023

Exposed: How online fraudsters are ripping off Britain

35 mins; May 24, 2023

How Call of Duty became Britain's post-Brexit battleground

27 mins; May 23, 2023

What hardcore porn is doing to a generation of teenagers

28 mins; May 22, 2023

Diamonds and divorces: Are the oligarch sanctions working?

32 mins; May 21, 2023

Planet Hope: Revolutionising the world's plastic waste problem with Miranda Wang

40 mins; May 19, 2023

The Sunday Times Rich List: Who is Britain's richest man?

29 mins; May 19, 2023

The underground bankers funding people smugglers

27 mins; May 17, 2023

Trouble at the Kremlin

28 mins; May 16, 2023

Investigation: How ketamine became the UK’s hidden campus killer

30 mins; May 15, 2023

India: The next global superpower?

29 mins; May 14, 2023

Planet Hope: Establishing a healthier global population with Mark Kendall

39 mins; May 12, 2023

Eurovision 2023: A very political song contest

27 mins; May 11, 2023

Turkey’s knife-edge election: Is Erdogan’s time up?

23 mins; May 10, 2023

An MI6 agent's journey from spy to killer

35 mins; May 09, 2023

Qatargate: The inside story of the big Brussels bung

31 mins; May 08, 2023

Off Air with Jane Garvey and Fi Glover: How Britain prepared for nuclear war

28 mins; May 07, 2023

Planet Hope: Navigating the Great Spine of Africa with Steve Boyes

39 mins; May 05, 2023

How to crown a King, 2023-style

28 mins; May 04, 2023

Poison (Pt 4) - UPDATE: Kenneth Law is arrested

18 mins; May 04, 2023

The Ukrainian children stolen by Putin

28 mins; May 03, 2023

The BBC chairman, the top civil servant and Boris Johnson

28 mins; May 02, 2023

Is an 80-year-old Biden still the best bet against Trump?

28 mins; May 01, 2023

Danny In The Valley: How AI could change medicine forever

51 mins; April 30, 2023

A conversation on suicide prevention

42 mins; April 28, 2023

Poison (Pt 3) - An encounter in Toronto

39 mins; April 27, 2023

Poison (Pt 2) - The man who sells death

24 mins; April 26, 2023

Poison (Pt 1) - The life of Tom Parfett

24 mins; April 25, 2023

Poison - Coming soon

1 min; April 25, 2023

The swing voters who’ll decide the next election

29 mins; April 24, 2023

Six months of Musk: How Elon changed Twitter

29 mins; April 23, 2023

Sudan: The general and the warlord fighting for power

25 mins; April 20, 2023

Where did all the Poles go?

29 mins; April 19, 2023

What we now know about the Pentagon leaks

32 mins; April 18, 2023

What's going on in the South China Sea?

28 mins; April 17, 2023

Could TikTok be banned?

30 mins; April 16, 2023

Is Trump's indictment hurting or helping him with voters?

26 mins; April 13, 2023

Russia’s wrongful detention of journalist Evan Gershkovich

27 mins; April 12, 2023

Could this be the biggest case of art fraud in history?

27 mins; April 11, 2023

Russian space rescue: Is everyone coming home?

31 mins; April 10, 2023

Britain’s first grand portrait of a person of colour is saved for the nation

27 mins; April 09, 2023

How the 'ceasefire babies' forgot the Troubles

35 mins; April 06, 2023

Exposed: How a Tory MP offered to lobby for gambling investors

35 mins; April 05, 2023

Is Starmer vulnerable to a Corbynite comeback?

30 mins; April 04, 2023

The fight for Israel’s democracy

29 mins; April 03, 2023

How I broke free from anorexia

38 mins; April 02, 2023

France on fire: The protests, explained

28 mins; March 30, 2023

The rise and rise of Botox

28 mins; March 29, 2023

The woman who investigated the racist, sexist and homophobic Met Police

34 mins; March 28, 2023

Are banking tremors the start of a new financial crisis?

30 mins; March 27, 2023

What two gay dads can teach fathers about parenting

32 mins; March 26, 2023

Who Killed CJ Davis? (UPDATE) - An arrest

8 mins; March 24, 2023

Is it over for Boris Johnson?

31 mins; March 23, 2023

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