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30 mins; August 07, 2024

Inside Britain’s far right

35 mins; August 06, 2024

How Putin played the West in the prisoner swap

28 mins; August 05, 2024

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27 mins; August 04, 2024

Planet Hope: Capturing nature’s urgent calls with Paul Nicklen

42 mins; August 03, 2024

The downfall of Huw Edwards

30 mins; August 01, 2024

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24 mins; July 31, 2024

Will Labour raise taxes?

29 mins; July 30, 2024

Kidnap for ransom: The search for Muriel McKay (Pt 2)

29 mins; July 29, 2024

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34 mins; July 24, 2024

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28 mins; July 23, 2024

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26 mins; July 22, 2024

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29 mins; July 21, 2024

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Introducing Cocaine Inc.

27 mins; July 18, 2024

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30 mins; July 17, 2024

King’s Speech: How Labour plans to change Britain

30 mins; July 16, 2024

The Holly Willougby trial and a toxic online subculture

32 mins; July 15, 2024

Trump shooting: Our eyewitness account

32 mins; July 14, 2024

The rise and fall, and rise again of Gareth Southgate

29 mins; July 11, 2024

What now for the Tories?

28 mins; July 10, 2024

Labour: Meet Starmer's top advisors

27 mins; July 09, 2024

How France’s left stopped a far-right surge

25 mins; July 08, 2024

Labour: Huge majority, thin support

31 mins; July 07, 2024

Planet Hope: Reconnecting to nature through sound with Michel André

36 mins; July 06, 2024

Election special: Labour landslide

37 mins; July 05, 2024

Election special: Coming soon

1 min; July 04, 2024

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39 mins; July 03, 2024

Will Biden step aside?

32 mins; July 02, 2024

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35 mins; July 01, 2024

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25 mins; June 30, 2024

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49 mins; June 29, 2024

Who is the real Nigel Farage?

31 mins; June 27, 2024

Trump, Biden and the presidential debate that could change the election

31 mins; June 26, 2024

The election flutters costing the Conservatives

27 mins; June 25, 2024

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23 mins; June 24, 2024

Keir Starmer: Up close and personal

32 mins; June 23, 2024

Planet Hope: Rewilding the Earth with Kris Tompkins

41 mins; June 22, 2024

The Tory wipe out scenario: Canada 1993

27 mins; June 20, 2024

The TikTok election wars

28 mins; June 19, 2024

The Green vote, it’s not (only) about the environment

25 mins; June 18, 2024

The new science of ageing and the quest to live forever

28 mins; June 17, 2024

Could the 'blue wall' fall?

27 mins; June 16, 2024

Planet Hope: Solving hidden hunger with Felix Brooks-Church

43 mins; June 15, 2024

The UK economy’s broken. Can Labour fix it?

32 mins; June 13, 2024

Football’s civil war: Man City vs Premier League

26 mins; June 12, 2024

Young, French, and voting hard-right

28 mins; June 11, 2024

Why are so many young people getting cancer?

28 mins; June 10, 2024

Tracing the origin story of Taylor Swift

29 mins; June 09, 2024

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38 mins; June 08, 2024

From the archive: One man’s mission to meet every Second World War veteran

38 mins; June 07, 2024

France’s #MeToo moment

30 mins; June 06, 2024

Worcester Woman and Mondeo Man: What the polls teach us about the election and ourselves

30 mins; June 05, 2024

Nigel Farage is standing. Are the Tories in deep trouble?

29 mins; June 04, 2024

Trump is guilty. Will anything change?

29 mins; June 03, 2024

Sir Keir Starmer, the man who could be Prime Minister

32 mins; June 02, 2024

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43 mins; June 01, 2024

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32 mins; May 30, 2024

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26 mins; May 29, 2024

Could a Labour Government mean the end of private schools?

29 mins; May 28, 2024

Thames Water: the business model built on shit

29 mins; May 27, 2024

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25 mins; May 26, 2024

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39 mins; May 25, 2024

Felony or witch hunt: Who told the best story at Trump’s trial?

28 mins; May 23, 2024

Sunak's summer gamble

35 mins; May 22, 2024

Could the Butcher of Tehran's death signal danger for the Iranian regime?

31 mins; May 21, 2024

A bloody disgrace: How the infected blood victims were betrayed by a cover-up

41 mins; May 20, 2024

Why the super-rich are falling out of love with London

29 mins; May 19, 2024

Planet Hope: Restoring ancient Andean forests with Constantino Aucca Chutas

35 mins; May 18, 2024

Britain's birth trauma scandal

35 mins; May 16, 2024

The King, The Prince and The Duke

30 mins; May 15, 2024

Dubai Unlocked: The convicts secretly investing millions in the Emirates

32 mins; May 14, 2024

The far-right plot to overthrow the German state

25 mins; May 13, 2024

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27 mins; May 12, 2024

Planet Hope: Harvesting drinking water from the air with Beth Koigi

37 mins; May 11, 2024

From the archive: The hunt for FBI 'fugitive' Nicholas Rossi

35 mins; May 10, 2024

Why the campus protests could put Trump in the White House

34 mins; May 09, 2024

The SAS murders and the conspiracy to cover them up - Part 2

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The SAS murders and the conspiracy to cover them up - Part 1

29 mins; May 07, 2024

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29 mins; May 06, 2024

Salman Rushdie on the attack that changed his life

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27 mins; May 02, 2024

Tim Shipman on the tears, plots and mating porcupines of Brexit

27 mins; May 01, 2024

The rise and spectacular fall of the SNP

32 mins; April 30, 2024

Why Israel's rogue battalion could be facing US sanctions

29 mins; April 29, 2024

How America could descend into civil war

27 mins; April 28, 2024

Undercover at Britain’s ‘conspiracy school’

30 mins; April 25, 2024

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36 mins; April 24, 2024

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32 mins; April 23, 2024

How do we save the smartphone generation?

33 mins; April 22, 2024

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30 mins; April 21, 2024

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23 mins; April 18, 2024

Trump’s ‘hush money’ trial, according to Stormy Daniels

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26 mins; April 16, 2024

Are Israel and Iran on the brink of war?

32 mins; April 15, 2024

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35 mins; April 14, 2024

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