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Gregg Wallace vs. 'middle class women of a certain age'

31 mins; December 02, 2024

The myth of the X exodus

29 mins; December 01, 2024

What’s fuelling the emergence of Ireland's far right? [REPLAY]

34 mins; November 30, 2024

Jane & Fi talk to General David Petraeus

20 mins; November 29, 2024

Who really runs Britain?

28 mins; November 28, 2024

The debate about death that split the country

27 mins; November 27, 2024

Inside the Laos party town where backpackers die

27 mins; November 26, 2024

‘I gave my life to the CIA. They betrayed me.’

36 mins; November 25, 2024

Did the Queen hate Boris Johnson?

28 mins; November 24, 2024

A Very British Scandal: How Captain Tom's charity got caught up in controversy [REPLAY]

26 mins; November 23, 2024

Planet Hope: Finding Hope for our Planet

50 mins; November 22, 2024

Putin’s “nuclear blackmail”

33 mins; November 21, 2024

Are food shortages the farmers' secret weapon?

27 mins; November 20, 2024

Why young Brits are turning to Dubai

24 mins; November 19, 2024

Tim Spector on why government should get aggressive on ultra-processed food

26 mins; November 18, 2024

No sex, no babies, no marriage, no men: Why South Korea’s 4B movement is going viral in America

27 mins; November 17, 2024

Undercover: The Times investigation into Turkish plastic surgery clinics [REPLAY]

33 mins; November 16, 2024

Trump, Putin and an uncertain future for Ukraine

30 mins; November 14, 2024

The scandal that brought down the Archbishop of Canterbury

26 mins; November 13, 2024

'Send in the troops': Inside Trump's mass deportation plan

26 mins; November 12, 2024

Why are we getting worse at sleeping, not better?

24 mins; November 11, 2024

The millions of Americans who think the Democrats despise them

31 mins; November 10, 2024

Prince William on the "hardest year" of his life

26 mins; November 09, 2024

The political transformation of Elon Musk [Replay]

32 mins; November 08, 2024

The cost of being ugly

21 mins; November 07, 2024

Team Trump’s plan to remake America

28 mins; November 06, 2024

Ball gowns and battle grounds: the night of the election

32 mins; November 06, 2024

The property empires that make Charles and William millions

31 mins; November 04, 2024

Can Kemi Badenoch make the Tories popular again?

27 mins; November 03, 2024

The budget recovery plan!

45 mins; November 02, 2024

Trump vs. Harris: The battle of the sexes [Replay]

31 mins; November 01, 2024

How violent could the US election get?

27 mins; October 31, 2024

The £40 billion gamble

21 mins; October 30, 2024

Liam Payne and the rise of pink cocaine

22 mins; October 29, 2024

The Democrats voting for Trump

35 mins; October 28, 2024

My daughter died of ME. I had to fight the NHS for answers

48 mins; October 27, 2024

Satya Nadella, Chairman and Chief Executive of Microsoft

54 mins; October 26, 2024

Melania: Donald Trump’s secret weapon?

26 mins; October 25, 2024

'Rivals' and the cult of Jilly Cooper

28 mins; October 24, 2024

The Irish politician and the Russian 'honeytrap'

29 mins; October 23, 2024

The full story of the Chris Kaba killing

35 mins; October 22, 2024

What the death of the Hamas leader means for the war

31 mins; October 21, 2024

What happens if the American election is a tie?

25 mins; October 20, 2024

Can a ‘miracle’ weight loss drug end Britain's obesity epidemic? [Replay]

30 mins; October 19, 2024

Al Gore, tech and climate

52 mins; October 18, 2024

The death of One Direction star Liam Payne

19 mins; October 17, 2024

A brief history of Israel and Lebanon at war

30 mins; October 16, 2024

Gangs of Marseille: Inside France's drugs wars

31 mins; October 15, 2024

Why the US Government is gunning for Google

29 mins; October 14, 2024

How Kamala Harris schmoozed California

32 mins; October 13, 2024

Could there (ever) be a road map for peace in the Middle East?

18 mins; October 12, 2024

100 days of Starmer: What makes a good PM?

37 mins; October 11, 2024

A diary from Gaza - what happened next

25 mins; October 10, 2024

The Boris Johnson interview

34 mins; October 09, 2024

How The Sunday Times broke the freebies scandal

28 mins; October 08, 2024

Sober October: Me, my father and the demon drink

28 mins; October 07, 2024

How I survived October 7

32 mins; October 06, 2024

Lessons from the world's assisted dying capital [Replay]

27 mins; October 05, 2024

Inside the six-day siege that changed Britain

34 mins; October 03, 2024

Iran strikes Israel. What next?

26 mins; October 02, 2024

The Tory Hunger Games

38 mins; October 01, 2024

The historian who picked nearly every winner calls the US election

27 mins; September 30, 2024

Anna Wintour: The most powerful woman in fashion

26 mins; September 29, 2024

William Hague talks to Yuval Noah Harari: The power of information

36 mins; September 28, 2024

Who are Hezbollah and are they heading for all-out war?

32 mins; September 26, 2024

Investigation: The families living in Britain's ‘slums of the future’

27 mins; September 25, 2024

Is Keir Starmer’s honeymoon over?

29 mins; September 24, 2024

How Sally Rooney became the voice of a generation

28 mins; September 23, 2024

Slackers or grafters? The truth about working from home

26 mins; September 22, 2024

Exploding pagers and Israel's new phase of war

25 mins; September 19, 2024

The British missile that Putin fears

25 mins; September 18, 2024

How The King’s Prince Andrew problem just got bigger

23 mins; September 17, 2024

Inside the land of silent women

30 mins; September 16, 2024

Why the price of gold is skyrocketing

28 mins; September 15, 2024

From the archive: Undercover at one of the UK's most dangerous prisons

33 mins; September 14, 2024

Undercover: The Times investigation into Turkish plastic surgery clinics

32 mins; September 12, 2024

Trump vs. Harris: Did the debate shift the dial?

40 mins; September 11, 2024

The AfD and Germany's Nazi past

32 mins; September 10, 2024

Trump vs. Harris: The battle of the sexes

29 mins; September 09, 2024

Prince Harry at 40: Time to reconcile?

29 mins; September 08, 2024

‘We need to talk about what motherhood does to women’

28 mins; September 05, 2024

William Hague talks to Tony Blair: Legacy, war and prospects for peace in the Middle East

34 mins; September 04, 2024

The UK bans some arms sales to Israel, but what difference will it make?

32 mins; September 03, 2024

Why tech billionaires are backing Trump

29 mins; September 02, 2024

Why some experts are doubting Lucy Letby’s conviction

33 mins; September 01, 2024

From the archive: The Grenfell fire (Pt 2): The cladding scandal

44 mins; August 31, 2024

From the archive: The Grenfell fire (Pt 1): Stories from the tower

38 mins; August 30, 2024

Poison (2024 UPDATE) - Kenneth Law in the dock (Pt 5)

14 mins; August 29, 2024

Poison - Kenneth Law is arrested (Pt 4)

18 mins; August 28, 2024

Poison - An encounter in Toronto (Pt 3)

38 mins; August 27, 2024

Poison - The man who sells death (Pt 2)

24 mins; August 26, 2024

Poison - The life of Tom Parfett (Pt 1)

25 mins; August 25, 2024

Uncovered: Matthew Perry’s tragic death

24 mins; August 22, 2024

The tragedy of Mike Lynch and the sunken yacht

28 mins; August 21, 2024

Why there’s talk of civil war in Israel

24 mins; August 20, 2024

What’s fuelling the emergence of Ireland's far right?

34 mins; August 19, 2024

Why Trump is struggling against Harris

28 mins; August 18, 2024

What 50 years of best-selling books says about us

25 mins; August 16, 2024

The political transformation of Elon Musk

31 mins; August 14, 2024

The gambling addicts hooked on crypto

27 mins; August 13, 2024

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