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What’s up for grabs at the Trump-Putin summit?
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Presidents Trump and Putin meet in Alaska on Friday, Volodymyr Zelensky will not even be present. Trump said on Monday that he would ‘try and w...
Why is Britain broke?
10 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Speculation is rife that the upcoming Autumn budget will introduce new tax rises following expensive U-turns on welfare and slower than expected growt...
Surviving Hiroshima - the Sunday Story
09 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As we mark 80 years since the atomic bomb that changed the world, we revisit an interview with Hiroshima survivor, Koko Kondo.This podcast was brought...
Prince Andrew and an 'explosive' new biography
08 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Royals, Kate Mansey speaks to royal biographer Andrew Lownie whose allegations in his new book - Entitled: The Rise and Fall of ...
The bomb that changed the world
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eighty years ago this week, the first atomic bomb to be used in war was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, the city of Nagasaki was hit by...
Will the UK-France migrant deal stop the boats?
06 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As anti-immigrant protestors declare today ‘No Aslyum Day’, and Nigel Farage continues his Summer of Crime campaign, can the Government wrest back...
How the Times exposed Westminster's ‘cash for access’ breakfasts
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A Times investigation has found companies have been offered sponsorship deals involving private meetings with an ‘influential Labour figure’. The ...
How Ukraine was betrayed by corruption at home
04 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our Ukraine correspondent Maxim Tucker returns from the frontlines of the country's defence against Russia's invasion. With its soldiers under constan...
Mummies on cannabis gummies: meet the mothers getting high at home
03 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Frazzled American parents are swapping a nightly glass of chardonnay for chewable THC gummies. But are they ignoring the health risks?This podcast was...
The Tinder Swindler: how his victims took revenge - the Sunday Story
02 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is one of Netflix’s most watched documentaries – The Tinder Swindler told the story of scammer Simon Leviev and how he conned women out of more...
Was British involvement in Afghanistan worth it?
01 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been four years since the Taliban retook control of Kabul, marking the end of the UK’s 20-year military presence in Afghanistan. This week, P...
Why rivers need human rights
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A council in Hampshire has passed a motion to grant ‘personhood’ to the River Test, an ancient chalk stream which runs through the county. Althoug...
Recognising Palestine - and why it matters
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The UK government will recognise Palestine as a state in September, unless Israel meets certain conditions to ease the situation in Gaza. But what wou...
The far-right party spreading ‘sensible nationalism’
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Protests outside an hotel housing asylum seekers have spread across the country - and turned violent. Where is this heading? And how much is being org...
Why the Lionesses' victory will change the beautiful game
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
England's Lionesses beat Spain in the most dramatic fashion on Sunday night, to retain their title as the Queens of Europe. With a victory parade due ...
Inside the AI workplace
27 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The AI revolution is upon us, with entry level jobs plunging by a third since the launch of ChatGPT. What does that mean for the future of work? We ta...
'I feared the cult would kidnap my children' - the Sunday Story
26 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Elizabeth Roundy left a polygamous church rife with abuse in 2020, taking her children with her. Four of them have since disappeared. Who is to blame?...
Ozzy Osbourne: Working class wild-man who changed the sound of rock
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ozzie Osborne, who died this week, was the Black Sabbath front-man who became an unlikely TV personality. The 'Prince of Darkness' leaves behind a leg...
A "tipping point" in Gaza. What happens now?
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With starvation spreading across Gaza, over a thousand Palestinians have been killed while trying to get aid, according to the UN. As negotiation...
Why are the doctors striking?
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Britain’s resident doctors due to walk off the job tomorrow, the government is planning changes to the law that could make this kind of strike ...
Can Trump shake his Epstein problem?
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With President Trump due to touch down on British soil this week, he seems unable to escape the shadow of Jeffrey Epstein. So why is Trump finding thi...
The Afghan leak: what next?
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After last week’s shocking revelations that a list of tens of thousands of Afghans who’d helped the British was leaked, has that already led to de...
We demanded help for our sick children. We were accused of abuse.
20 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
An investigation by The Sunday Times has found that hundreds of parents are being falsely accused of fabricating their child’s illness, facing alleg...
"Crazy Rich Asians meets War of the Windsors” - the Sunday Story
19 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The city-state of Singapore has been scandalised by a bitter row tearing apart its first family. The two sons of the country’s founder, Lee Kwan Yew...
The trials of Constance Marten - the Saturday Story
18 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Born into an aristocratic family, Constance Marten and her unlikely partner Mark Gordon's became the target of a police manhunt launched to find them ...
Why AI is making us stupid and what we can do about it
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Students are getting AI to write their essays and it’s hard to spot the difference. Professor Niall Ferguson says AI is bad for our brains, but he h...
The NHS and the changing room trans row
16 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife, the employment tribunal that gripped the nation last February, resumed this week. It all started after nurse Sandie Peggie ...
Kill list and cover-up: how I took on the government and won
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For years, the British government used a court superinjunction to conceal a data leak that could have handed the Taliban a “kill list” of innocent...
The downfall of Gregg Wallace
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The self-styled "cheeky greengrocer" and MasterChef host has been sacked by the BBC after an inquiry substantiated dozens of complaints. So how did we...
Beauty and the tweaks: is everyone you know using fillers and Botox?
13 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New figures show the beauty industry is growing four times faster than the wider economy. The fastest growth is in beauty services and non-invasive tr...
The Sunday Edition: I live with two men. Both are my ex-husbands.
12 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Kristie De Garis moved two male companions into her house in rural Scotland, her neighbours assumed they were a throuple. The truth was even more...
How The Populists Are Coming (From Left And Right)
11 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week the political masterminds consider what's happening on the populist left and right, with more Tories defecting to Reform UK and talk of a ne...
What Virginia Giuffre’s diary tells us about the Epstein files
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, the FBI investigation that Trump promised would reveal all about Jeffrey Epstein concluded there was no evidence to implicate anyone else i...
Are we close to a Gaza ceasefire?
09 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With people around the world calling for a lasting peace in Gaza, Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu has been schmoozing US President Donald Trump. Wh...
Texas floods: could the deaths have been prevented?
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over 100 people, including dozens of children, are dead after flash flooding in Texas. Could this have been avoided given a nearly identical tragedy t...
The mushroom killer: what the jury heard
07 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Erin Patterson has been found guilty of murdering three relatives by lacing their beef wellington with death cap mushrooms. She was also found guilty ...
‘There was a white light. I looked around and saw bodies’: looking back at 7/7
06 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Twenty years after the 7/7 London bombings killed 52 people, what’s changed since the deadly suicide attack? Thelma Stober suffered life-changing in...
A new age of nuclear weapons
04 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Patrick and Tom unpack a troubling question - are we entering a third nuclear age? With Iran’s nuclear programme back in the headlines and countries...
Trump v Musk round 2: One Big Beautiful Bill
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trading blows again after Musk criticised the President’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax and spending bill. Trump has threa...
Sex with your sister: true stories of the sperm superdonors
02 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“I’ll just go and get some fresh seed” - we reveal growing concerns about mass sperm donation. One man found his father ran a corrupt fertility ...
Why your gig tickets will get even more expensive
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From dynamic pricing and VIP packages to ‘priority entry’, there seem to be more ways than ever to squeeze money out of music fans - and that’s ...
The welfare row threatening to bring down the government
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After the most contentious week of Keir Starmer’s premiership so far, MPs will gather in the House of Commons later today to vote on the controversi...
The New York mayoral candidate making left-wing economics trendy again
29 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tomorrow 33-year-old democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani will be officially confirmed as the Democratic Party candidate for New York mayor, putting hi...
The Sunday Edition: Gypsy-Rose Blanchard: I had Mom killed. I hope she’d be proud of me now
28 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was originally published in February.In 2016, 24-year-old Gypsy-Rose Blanchard was sentenced to 10 years in the US State of Missouri, for...
Sometimes I look into your eyes
27 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Danny meets up with Alex Blania, the CEO and one of the co-founders, alongside Sam Altman, of Tools for Humanity. Their project Worldcoin, aims t...
One day in the life and death of an AI chatbot
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Rob Burley started talking to an AI chatbot for feedback while writing his book, he had no idea where the conversation would lead, only 24 hours ...
Trump's billionaire Iran dealmaker: who is Steve Witkoff?
25 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Trump’s golfing buddy Steve Witkoff was a property developer before Trump came to power. Now he’s the president's right-hand-man in all things dip...
Could Iran's leader fall?
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Has the crisis over Iran driven its already weakened leader to the brink? Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is unpopular but do the people of Iran want regime ch...
Iran strikes back: what next?
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Iran has launched missiles at US airbases in response to US strikes on its nuclear facilities. Donald Trump says US bombers obliterated Iran’s three...
J’Adore Anderson: the Brit taking over Dior
22 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jonathan Anderson, the Northern Irish designer who made Loewe a billion dollar brand, has just taken on the biggest job in fashion: the first sole cre...
The Sunday Edition: The tragedy of Mike Lynch and the sunken yacht
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast was originally published last August.Just hours before the sinking, the party aboard the yacht had been celebrating a spectacular legal v...
How To Call A Cobra Emergency Meeting
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The government has held a meeting of the Cobra committee to discuss the Israel-Iran crisis - but how important is it really during a national emergenc...
OO7's new boss: Blaise Metreweli, the first woman to run MI6
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The first woman to run MI6, the foreign branch of Britain's Secret Intelligence Services has been named. Blaise Metreweli takes over the role of ‘C,...
My mother, my best friend and my misdiagnosis
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Decca Aitkenhead was nine when a GP risked jail to help her mother to die. Years later she watched her best friend succumb to the slow torture of Hunt...
Can ketamine cure PTSD?
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As thousands of Ukrainian soldiers struggle with debilitating PTSD since the Russian invasion, one unconventional therapy has proved surprisingly effe...
Why Israel and Iran are at war - and what could happen next
16 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did Israel pull off the most devastating attack on the Iranian regime in its 45 year history and did it achieve its aim of destroying the country'...
Why weight loss drugs will change even more than you think
15 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Weight loss drugs like Mounjaro and Wegovy aren't just changing bodies - they're rewiring society. Half a million Britons have tried them and that num...
The Sunday Edition: Trump and the surprising history of American authoritarians
14 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was originally published in March.The word "unprecedented" is often used to describe Donald Trump's presidency. He's broken with conventi...
The shadowy world of targeted killings
13 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A pattern is seemingly emerging with a series of high profile targeted killings taking place inside Russian territory, blamed on Ukrainian forces. Thi...
The governor's stand: Newsom, Trump, and the battle for LA
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The protests in Los Angeles have created a political opportunity for California’s Democrat governor, Gavin Newsom. He has called Donald Trump a “s...
Mohamed Al-Fayed: the monster of Harrods
11 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For years, the Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed used his power to abuse and rape women who worked for him. He was never prosecuted. In her new book The ...
Greta’s mission to Gaza
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On Monday a boat of twelve activists, including Greta Thunberg, was intercepted by Israel on its way to deliver a symbolic amount of aid to Gaza. More...
Trump v Musk: who won?
09 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The closest of bromances devolved last week into a public cage fight. Where did this come from? And when the richest man in the world and the most pow...
Welcome to the Manosphere: a journey through modern masculinity
08 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The journalist James Bloodworth has been exploring the manosphere revealing a hidden world of modern masculinity and the anxieties driving it. Chartin...
The Sunday Edition: How vaping took over Britain
07 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was originally published two year ago.They are supposed to help adults quit smoking – so why is a Willy Wonka array of disposable vapes...
How To Stop A Spending Review Revolt
06 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With tough choices facing the government, the political masterminds look at what goes on behind the scenes ahead of a spending review - and how reluct...
The making of Beyoncé — by friends, family and Team Bey insiders
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour comes to the UK, we chart the rise of a shy schoolgirl from Texas who became a record-breaking billionaire. Th...
No water, no power, no comms: the attack Britain should prepare for
04 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The government’s Strategic Defence Review has set out a vision for Britain’s defence for the next decade. One of its authors, General Sir Richard ...
Why the dollar is crashing – and why you should care
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The dollar has been the global reserve currency nearly a century. But four months into the new Trump administration, could that be about to change?Thi...
Palmyra: Syria's past, present and future
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anthony Loyd and the legendary photographer Don McCullin have been to Syria to chronicle the destruction of Palmyra by Islamic State and to see what i...
How Giorgia Meloni became Europe’s political superstar
01 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Giorgia Meloni has world leaders falling at her feet and the Trump administration in her thrall. But how did she reinvent herself from leader of a min...
The Sunday Edition: Why everyone's going to Japan
31 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was originally published last March.Japanese ‘kidults’ revolutionised pop culture in the 90s and 00s, turning to their inner children...
How do you get a refund?
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever been ghosted by a brand after a bad buy? You're not alone. In this episode of Feel Better About Money, we dive under the cushions of luxury ...
Trump family inc.
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since being elected, Donald Trump’s personal fortune has more than doubled, and members of his family are doing well too. The White House says he’...
Is Angela Rayner Labour's answer to Farage?
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With Labour MPs increasingly in revolt across a range of policies, the prime minister last week made a surprise u-turn on the winter fuel allowance. A...
Inside Vinted - from Lithuanian start-up to £4 billion empire
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From its inception at a drunken party seventeen years ago, the second-hand clothing app Vinted is now worth over £4 billion. Nearly sunk by one bad b...
38 years - Britain's worst miscarriage of justice
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Sullivan has been released from prison after spending 38 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit. In 1986, 21-year-old Diane Sindall w...
Trump goes to Hollywood
25 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
President Trump has announced plans to impose a levy on on American films made outside the country. It's a bold move that could have serious consequen...
The Sunday Edition: Negative tales of motherhood nearly put me off having a baby
24 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From bleak TV comedies to #mumtok meltdowns, modern motherhood is often portrayed as joyless, exhausting, and even traumatic. How did fear become the ...
How To Perform A Giant U-Turn
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Keir Starmer is changing course on the winter fuel allowance - where does it sit in the league table of political U-turns, and will it please anybody?...
Freak-offs and baby oil - the P Diddy trial so far
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In New York, the P Diddy trial is in its second week. The case centres around ‘freak-offs’ - parties where it’s claimed he forced two ex-girlfri...
'People are starving' - How Trump lost patience with Israel
21 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As Donald Trump took a tour of the Middle East last week, there was one notable omission from his itinerary - a trip to see America's long term politi...
Trump’s bromance with the ‘world’s coolest dictator’
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More than 200 migrants from the US are being held in a high-security prison for terrorists in El Salvador, accused of being gang members. How did El S...
The Biden cover-up
19 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Former US president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, and is now considering his options for treatment. Th...
Britain's richest people - and why they're furious
18 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Sunday Times Rich List 2025 has been one of the hardest to compile in recent years, thanks in large part to President Trump's tariffs. But it’s ...
The Sunday Edition: The journalist who exposed Britain’s grooming gangs
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was originally published in January.Elon Musk has unleashed a huge political row in the UK over whether there should be a national inquir...
Inside the mind of Elon Musk & is the future of EV market Chinese?
16 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Katie and Danny are joined for a conversation with Jon McNeil. For a pivotal 30 month period, Jon was President of Tesla and worked closely with Elon ...
Lily Phillips: gang bangs and feminism
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lily Phillips, a 23-year-old from Derbyshire, made headlines after claiming to have slept with 101 men in a single day. She rose to household-name sta...
The anti-Trump Pope?
14 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last week, Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the first American chosen to lead the Catholic Church. In the weeks running up to his ...
Is Trump turning on Putin?
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New talks on Ukraine continue in Istanbul tomorrow and after months of taking Vladimir Putin's side, President Trump now seems much more supportive of...
My Oscar-winning film exposed violent Israeli settlers. Now they’re the soldiers
12 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In March this year, a team of Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers accepted the Oscar for best documentary. Their film No Other Land is a glimpse into t...
How the Sycamore Gap killers were caught
11 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two men have been found guilty of criminal damage, for the felling of the iconic Sycamore Gap tree in Northumbria. Constance Kampfner sat through the ...
The Sunday Edition: ‘I gave my life to the CIA. They betrayed me.’
10 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was originally published last November.On Sept 12, 2001, Blerim Skoro was approached by a man and a woman while he was in prison. They tu...
Off Air with Jane & Fi
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fi's off today on important business, so Jane M is here! Normal schedule resumes tomorrow... whatever that means. Today, Jane and Jane chat power outa...
India vs Pakistan: the Kashmir conflict explained
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tensions are rising between India and Pakistan after 26 people were killed in Kashmir - the disputed region that sits between them. Now, India has fir...
Who's behind the M&S cyber attack?
07 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do hackers take down a high street staple? What started as a contactless payment outage at Marks and Spencer, quickly became the retail fortnight ...
A high-rise fire killed Catherine. The cladding firm kept selling
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eight years before the Grenfell tragedy, a fire in a high-rise building killed six people. Now a Sunday Times investigation has raised serious questio...
The rise of the 'polygamous worker'
05 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You could say one of the few good things to come out of the pandemic was the chance to work from home, avoid the daily commute, and get a better work-...
The Sunday Edition: On the frontline of Sudan's forgotten war
03 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was originally published last January.For almost two years, two armies have fought a brutal civil war in Sudan, Africa’s third largest ...
Binance's new CEO makes the case for crypto (and forgiveness)
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Finally, the crypto episode is here. And after a lowdown on the vibe shift towards the industry in Washington, Katie is joined by Binance's new CEO, R...