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Deaglan
 Aug 27, 2024
Makes no mention of USA sanctions on Venezuela and this has caused a lot of the problems.

rey zaldy serna
 Jan 22, 2024
one of my most fave podcasts


 Jun 27, 2023

ADN in California
 May 8, 2023
great podcasts overall. recent series on cost of the crown was excellent. some subject may be a bit esoteric and UK oriented for non citizens but overall very well done.


 Oct 31, 2022

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Hosted by Michael Safi and Helen Pidd, Today in Focus brings you closer to Guardian journalism. Combining storytelling with insightful analysis and personal testimonies, the podcast takes you behind the headlines for a deeper understanding of the news, every weekday. And, in the run up to the US Election, Lucy Hough presents US Election Extra, a daily series of short updates, running alongside the regular Today in Focus podcast. Today in Focus is unmatched in both scope and depth, delivering analysis and storytelling from right across the planet. With a global network of over 900 journalists and five dedicated editions covering news in the US, UK, Australia, Europe, and beyond, the Guardian offers comprehensive reporting across every continent. Most recently we have introduced new correspondents in the Caribbean, South America and Africa.

Episode Date
Yasser’s story: the Syrian refugee who lived with me
Dec 20, 2024
Can a steel town survive if its furnaces are turned off?
Dec 19, 2024
The prince and the ‘spy’
Dec 18, 2024
The reformed jihadi? Al-Jolani, the new most powerful man in Syria
Dec 17, 2024
‘The most beautiful word in the dictionary’: Donald Trump’s tariff plan
Dec 16, 2024
Revisited: Have open marriages gone mainstream?
Dec 13, 2024
Revisited: The Unabomber and his ongoing influence
Dec 12, 2024
The town that fears losing its high street to climate change
Dec 11, 2024
Inside Damascus after the fall of Bashar al-Assad
Dec 10, 2024
How Trump’s victory sparked a crypto boom
Dec 09, 2024
Revisited: The Israeli negotiator who talks to Hamas
Dec 06, 2024
Revisited: The chilling policy to cut Greenland’s high birth rate
Dec 05, 2024
The Syrian civil war and a stunning reversal for the Assad regime
Dec 04, 2024
Why Joe Biden pardoned his son
Dec 03, 2024
New Zealand: the fight to protect Māori rights
Dec 02, 2024
Lebanon: a fragile ceasefire in a shattered nation
Nov 29, 2024
Assisted dying: a historic vote comes to parliament
Nov 28, 2024
The rise of ketamine addiction in the UK
Nov 27, 2024
The Israeli settlers preparing to move to Gaza
Nov 26, 2024
A mystery in Finnish Lapland, and what it means for the climate crisis
Nov 25, 2024
Nigel Farage and his ‘historic mission’: on the ground with Reform UK
Nov 22, 2024
An arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu – Today in Focus Extra
Nov 21, 2024
What’s behind the escalating situation in Ukraine?
Nov 21, 2024
Starmer v farmers – will the government have to backtrack?
Nov 20, 2024
Inside Port-au-Prince, Haiti: the capital where gangs have taken over
Nov 19, 2024
Assassins, spies and a superpower on the rise: the rift between Canada and India
Nov 18, 2024
Hardliners, loyalists and a dog killer: Trump’s new White House team
Nov 15, 2024
The fall of Justin Welby
Nov 14, 2024
The briefcase, the Porsche and the collapse of the German government
Nov 13, 2024
A week of tumult and triumph for Netanyahu
Nov 12, 2024
Finding one trillion dollars at Cop29
Nov 11, 2024
Where do the Democrats go from here?
Nov 08, 2024
What will Trump do in power?
Nov 07, 2024
The return of President Trump
Nov 06, 2024
US election extra: what to look out for on election night
Nov 05, 2024
A road trip through Pennsylvania, the ultimate swing state
Nov 05, 2024
US election extra: the endgame
Nov 04, 2024
Can Kemi Badenoch make the Tories electable again?
Nov 04, 2024
US election extra: Duel rallies in Las Vegas with surprise J-Lo endorsement
Nov 01, 2024
Six weeks in Saginaw: the bellwether county in the bellwether state
Nov 01, 2024
US election extra: the race in Georgia
Oct 31, 2024
Rachel Reeves’s big tax-and-spend budget dissected
Oct 31, 2024
US election extra: Kamala Harris’s closing argument
Oct 30, 2024
AI images, child sexual abuse and a ‘first prosecution of its kind’
Oct 30, 2024
US election extra: the two Trump campaigns
Oct 29, 2024
The Trump supporters who took over Georgia’s election board
Oct 29, 2024
US election extra: rage and racist bile at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally
Oct 28, 2024
The child skincare boom
Oct 28, 2024
US election extra: TikTok, podcasts and the polls
Oct 25, 2024
Undercover inside a ‘scientific racism’ network
Oct 25, 2024
US election extra: Pennsylvania in the balance
Oct 24, 2024
Liam Payne: the heady rise and tragic death of a One Direction star
Oct 24, 2024
US election extra: Trump accuses Labour of ‘interference’
Oct 23, 2024
Will the Chris Kaba murder trial change British policing?
Oct 23, 2024
US election extra: is the US ready for ‘Maga-nomics’?
Oct 22, 2024
Moldova’s razor-thin EU referendum result
Oct 22, 2024
US election extra: could Trump steal the election? – podcast
Oct 21, 2024
How the US border became a toxic issue for voters
Oct 21, 2024
US election extra: the path to power – understanding the electoral college
Oct 18, 2024
The killing of Yahya Sinwar
Oct 18, 2024
US election extra: Harris breaks with Biden
Oct 17, 2024
How abortion became a battleground issue of the US election – podcast
Oct 17, 2024
US election extra: Musk’s millions
Oct 16, 2024
How UN peacekeepers ended up in Israel’s line of fire
Oct 16, 2024
US election extra: DJ Trump
Oct 15, 2024
The hurricanes shaking the US election – podcast
Oct 15, 2024
US election extra: the state of the race
Oct 14, 2024
How Giorgia Meloni became Europe’s favourite far-right leader
Oct 14, 2024
One man on his grief for Gaza
Oct 11, 2024
‘I am your retribution’: Trump’s radical plan to remake the presidency
Oct 10, 2024
Unleashed: John Crace digests Boris Johnson’s memoir
Oct 09, 2024
Sue Gray is out: will this solve Labour’s problems?
Oct 08, 2024
7 October, one year on: a return to kibbutz Nir Oz
Oct 07, 2024
Do Israel and Iran really want to go to war?
Oct 04, 2024
The curiously upbeat Tory leadership race
Oct 03, 2024
How will Israel retaliate? – Today in Focus Extra
Oct 02, 2024
Who were England’s 2024 rioters?
Oct 02, 2024
Will Hezbollah survive Israel’s onslaught?
Oct 01, 2024
The mysteries of IBS
Sep 30, 2024
The deadliest week in Lebanon for decades
Sep 27, 2024
The bravery of Gisèle Pelicot in the rape trial horrifying France
Sep 26, 2024
Hope, finally? Keir Starmer’s first conference in power
Sep 25, 2024
Inside a secret summit of Afghan women’s rights activists
Sep 24, 2024
Born to rule? The hereditary peers about to lose their seats
Sep 23, 2024
How Lebanon’s pagers and walkie-talkies became deadly weapons
Sep 20, 2024
Anushka Asthana on the perils of Keir Starmer’s fragile majority
Sep 19, 2024
Should we believe Putin’s war talk?
Sep 18, 2024
The devastating secrets of Huw Edwards
Sep 17, 2024
Revenge of the childless cat ladies
Sep 16, 2024
Creating The Spark: the kids behind 2024’s surprise summer hit
Sep 13, 2024
Why Brazil is taking on Elon Musk
Sep 12, 2024
Will Labour’s cold winter of cuts be worth it?
Sep 11, 2024
Mehdi Hasan on how to beat Donald Trump in a debate
Sep 10, 2024
The man who fell to Earth
Sep 09, 2024
Grenfell: the lies and greed exposed
Sep 06, 2024
The Israeli negotiator who talks to Hamas
Sep 05, 2024
Why Oasis tickets are ‘definitely maybe’ too expensive
Sep 04, 2024
The millennials living with their parents
Sep 03, 2024
Meet the new MPs: the surgeon, the lawyer and the 24-year-old student
Sep 02, 2024
Black Box: episode 6 – Shut it down?
Aug 31, 2024
Black Box: episode 5 – The white mask
Aug 30, 2024
Black Box: episode 4 – Bing and I
Aug 29, 2024
Black Box: episode 3 – Repocalypse now
Aug 28, 2024
Black Box: episode 2 – The hunt for ClothOff, the deepfake porn app
Aug 27, 2024
Black Box: episode 1 – The connectionists
Aug 26, 2024
Black Box: episode 0 – The collision
Aug 26, 2024
The sex lives of strangers: creating ‘This is how we do it’
Aug 23, 2024
Venezuela and the president who won’t concede defeat
Aug 22, 2024
The UK’s refusal to ban arms exports to Israel
Aug 21, 2024
Racism in the army: the soldier who took the UK military to court
Aug 20, 2024
The making of Kamala Harris
Aug 19, 2024
The astronauts ‘stuck’ in space
Aug 16, 2024
How Bangladesh’s longest-serving leader was toppled by student protests
Aug 15, 2024
Tommy Robinson and the evolution of Britain’s far right
Aug 14, 2024
Is Ukraine’s incursion into Russia a gamble that could pay off?
Aug 13, 2024
The two-child welfare limit: why won’t Labour scrap the cap?
Aug 12, 2024
“Welcome to hell”: inside Israel’s prisons
Aug 09, 2024
Is AI a bubble?
Aug 08, 2024
The imam who reached out to rioters
Aug 07, 2024
Inside the prisoner exchange that set an American journalist free
Aug 06, 2024
A death at work in the age of extreme heat
Aug 05, 2024
How two assassinations left the Middle East on the edge
Aug 02, 2024
How Southport’s horror and grief was hijacked by the far right
Aug 01, 2024
Rachel Reeves and the £22bn black hole
Jul 31, 2024
The sisters Saudi Arabia tried to silence
Jul 30, 2024
Why Spain wants tourists to go home
Jul 29, 2024
The mother who forgave her daughters’ killer – but not the police
Jul 26, 2024
Team GB’s plan for Paris? Air con, ice vests and baristas
Jul 25, 2024
In southern Lebanon on the brink of war
Jul 24, 2024
Mehdi Hasan on Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump
Jul 23, 2024
President Biden steps aside
Jul 21, 2024
The ‘brat’ summer takeover
Jul 19, 2024
Dodging the draft: one Ukrainian man’s story
Jul 18, 2024
The king’s speech: how radical will Labour be?
Jul 17, 2024
Has the attempt to kill Trump handed him the election?
Jul 16, 2024
Inside the biggest art fraud in US history
Jul 15, 2024
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump – Politics Weekly America
Jul 14, 2024
Euro 2024: is it coming home?
Jul 12, 2024
The Conservative party: rows, resignations … and a tilt right?
Jul 11, 2024
Joe Biden and the Democrats’ dilemma
Jul 10, 2024
France’s leftwing alliance beat the far right, but what now?
Jul 09, 2024
Keir Starmer’s first weekend in power
Jul 08, 2024
Politics Weekly UK – Labour wins a landslide: Is this a new dawn?
Jul 05, 2024
Labour’s landslide victory
Jul 05, 2024
Election Extra: a guide to the night
Jul 04, 2024
Will France fall to the far right?
Jul 04, 2024
Election Extra: is it over?
Jul 03, 2024
Marina Hyde and John Crace on the 2024 election campaign
Jul 03, 2024
Election Extra: desperate times
Jul 02, 2024
The enigma of Keir Starmer
Jul 02, 2024
Election Extra: Is the race to replace Sunak already under way?
Jul 01, 2024
The 14 years that broke Britain, part 2
Jul 01, 2024
Election Extra: Reform UK activist’s racist ‘pub talk’
Jun 28, 2024
The 14 years that broke Britain, part 1
Jun 28, 2024
Election Extra: will undecided voters be decisive?
Jun 27, 2024
Returning to Leigh: can Labour rebuild the red wall?
Jun 27, 2024
Election Extra: Pippa Crerar on breaking the betting scandal
Jun 26, 2024
A win for Julian Assange and a loss for press freedom?
Jun 26, 2024
Election Extra: Where are voters getting their news?
Jun 25, 2024
McSweeney and Gray: the powers behind Keir Starmer
Jun 25, 2024
Election Extra: Farage doubles down
Jun 24, 2024
New towns and old ideas: Labour’s housing plan
Jun 24, 2024
Election Extra: hope (within reason)
Jun 21, 2024
Has Clacton fallen for Nigel Farage?
Jun 21, 2024
Election Extra: All bets are off
Jun 20, 2024
The Lib Dems’ surprising strategy to breach the blue wall
Jun 20, 2024
Election Extra: inflation on target and the SNP manifesto
Jun 19, 2024
Germans are divided. Can Euro 2024 unite them?
Jun 19, 2024
Election Extra: Labour heading for a landslide
Jun 18, 2024
The British judges ruling on the law in authoritarian Hong Kong
Jun 18, 2024
Election Extra: Farage’s five-year plan
Jun 17, 2024
The economy and Labour’s post-election dilemma
Jun 17, 2024
Election Extra: Starmer and the Corbyn question
Jun 14, 2024
The phone-free, 12-hour school-day experiment
Jun 14, 2024
Election Extra: Labour’s plan
Jun 13, 2024
Labour takes on the SNP in Scotland
Jun 13, 2024
Election Extra: damage limitation
Jun 12, 2024
Election 2024’s battleground: your family WhatsApp group
Jun 12, 2024
Election Extra: the Tory manifesto
Jun 11, 2024
How a far-right push in Europe triggered a shock election in France
Jun 11, 2024
Election Extra: Farage rules out pact with Tories
Jun 10, 2024
Magic Dave: David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out – part 2
Jun 10, 2024
Magic Dave: David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out – part 1
Jun 10, 2024
Election Extra: Sunak’s D-day disaster
Jun 07, 2024
The Israeli protesters trying to stop food aid getting to Gaza
Jun 07, 2024
Election Extra: New Frank Hester allegations
Jun 06, 2024
From child refugee to Guardian reporter: one journalist’s extraordinary story – podcast
Jun 06, 2024
Election Extra: Sunak’s £2,000 ‘lie’
Jun 05, 2024
Donald Trump is now a convicted criminal. Do voters care?
Jun 05, 2024
Election Extra: Sunak and Starmer debate preview
Jun 04, 2024
Has there been a purge of the left wing of the Labour party?
Jun 04, 2024
Election Extra: Nigel Farage is back
Jun 03, 2024
How to live to 100
Jun 03, 2024
Trump is guilty on all counts. So what happens next?
May 31, 2024
Exposing Israel’s secret ‘war’ on the ICC
May 31, 2024
How an Indian state became a testing ground for Hindu nationalism
May 30, 2024
Why is Sunak’s election campaign so chaotic?
May 29, 2024
A journey on weight-loss drug Ozempic
May 28, 2024
Damien Hirst and the dates that don’t add up
May 27, 2024
What should kids be taught about sex and relationships?
May 24, 2024
Rishi Sunak’s big election gamble
May 22, 2024
Inside Kharkiv as Russia advances
May 22, 2024
Could Netanyahu really be arrested for war crimes?
May 21, 2024
The rightwing Christian group and the battle over end-of-life care
May 20, 2024
The children of the contaminated blood scandal
May 17, 2024
What keeps the world’s top climate scientists up at night?
May 16, 2024
The 'foreign agents' law that has set off mass protests in Georgia
May 15, 2024
The growing tensions over immigration in Ireland
May 14, 2024
Put it down! Should children be allowed smartphones?
May 13, 2024
Rishi Sunak staggers on – but for how long?
May 10, 2024
Escaping Rafah: on the ground in Gaza’s last refuge
May 09, 2024
The London Bridge ‘hero’ who could go to prison for 99 years
May 08, 2024
Non-doms are threatening to leave. Should they be convinced to stay?
May 07, 2024
How do we protect teenagers from sextortion scams?
May 06, 2024
Politics Weekly Westminster: local elections special
May 05, 2024
Are we on the brink of a ceasefire deal for Gaza?
May 03, 2024
Has Elon Musk driven Tesla off track?
May 02, 2024
Is Labour about to win a local election landslide?
May 01, 2024
Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf resigns
Apr 30, 2024
Have open marriages gone mainstream?
Apr 29, 2024
The US college protests and the crackdown on campuses
Apr 26, 2024
What Ukraine needs to change the course of the war
Apr 25, 2024
Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner?
Apr 24, 2024
Sudan’s forgotten war
Apr 23, 2024
Where does the Cass report leave trans teenagers?
Apr 22, 2024
The chilling policy to cut Greenland’s high birth rate
Apr 19, 2024
Can Rishi Sunak create a smoke-free generation?
Apr 18, 2024
Liz Truss and her plan to ‘save the west’
Apr 17, 2024
Is the Middle East on the brink?
Apr 16, 2024
How Swiss women won a landmark climate case for Europe
Apr 15, 2024
Carers scandal: why are so many being prosecuted by the UK government?
Apr 12, 2024
Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump, and the start of the hush money trial
Apr 11, 2024
Profits over pipes: who should own our water?
Apr 10, 2024
The devil walking on Earth part 2
Apr 09, 2024
The devil walking on Earth: part 1
Apr 08, 2024
Should the UK stop arming Israel?
Apr 05, 2024
Scotland’s new hate crime law
Apr 04, 2024
Israel divided: Netanyahu’s coalition crisis
Apr 03, 2024
What is Reddit really worth?
Apr 02, 2024
The birdwatcher fighting racism in public spaces – podcast
Apr 01, 2024
Who screwed millennials: a generation left behind – Full Story podcast
Mar 31, 2024
Ten years of equal marriage – what has it changed?
Mar 29, 2024
How gangs took control of Haiti
Mar 28, 2024
The assisted dying debate: Paola’s story – podcast
Mar 27, 2024
Terrorism and the battle for the truth in Moscow
Mar 26, 2024
The rise and fall of Vice Media
Mar 25, 2024
Shining a light on London’s men-only Garrick Club
Mar 22, 2024
The silencing of climate protesters in English and Welsh courts
Mar 21, 2024
How serious are the plots against Rishi Sunak?
Mar 20, 2024
Why are Indian and Nepali men ending up on the frontline in Ukraine?
Mar 19, 2024
What happens when you put a nursery in a care home?
Mar 18, 2024
What do the Tories consider extreme?
Mar 15, 2024
The princess and the pictures
Mar 14, 2024
How an infamous ransomware gang found itself hacked
Mar 13, 2024
The Ministry of Defence’s multimillion pound Saudi defence deal
Mar 12, 2024
Black Box: the hunt for ClothOff – the deepfake porn app
Mar 11, 2024
Black Box: The connectionists
Mar 08, 2024
Jeremy Hunt’s election year budget – podcast
Mar 07, 2024
Gaza’s hunger crisis
Mar 06, 2024
Why IVF is under attack in Alabama
Mar 05, 2024
Is ill-health holding back the UK economy?
Mar 04, 2024
Black Box: the collision
Mar 01, 2024
How the cost of living changed the way we eat out
Mar 01, 2024
The Conservative party’s problem with Islamophobia
Feb 29, 2024
Saldo: Ukraine’s gangster governor – part 3
Feb 28, 2024
Saldo: Ukraine’s gangster governor – part 2
Feb 27, 2024
Saldo: Ukraine’s gangster governor – part 1
Feb 26, 2024
How a ceasefire vote led to two days of chaos in the Commons – podcast
Feb 23, 2024
Is an uprising by Europe’s farmers sowing the seeds for the far right?
Feb 22, 2024
Why the NHS needs Martha’s rule
Feb 21, 2024
The shocking death and extraordinary life of Alexei Navalny
Feb 20, 2024
Deported and disgraced: the students wrongly accused of cheating
Feb 19, 2024
Why is it becoming so hard to retire in the UK?
Feb 16, 2024
Israel’s threat to Gaza’s last refuge
Feb 15, 2024
What on earth is going on in the Rochdale byelection?
Feb 14, 2024
Is Biden too old to be president?
Feb 13, 2024
Why does the UK lag behind on cancer care?
Feb 12, 2024
Labour’s £28bn green policy U-turn
Feb 09, 2024
Why the military are the real winners of Pakistan’s election
Feb 08, 2024
Why is generation Z so divided on gender?
Feb 07, 2024
The murder of Brianna Ghey
Feb 06, 2024
The disposable vape ban
Feb 05, 2024
The deal that could transform politics in Northern Ireland
Feb 02, 2024
Is Britain fit to fight a war?
Feb 01, 2024
What’s gone wrong at Boeing?
Jan 31, 2024
Will the ICJ ruling change anything in Gaza?
Jan 30, 2024
The mothers and wives of Russian soldiers daring to defy Putin
Jan 29, 2024
Michelle Mone and the PPE Medpro investigation
Jan 26, 2024
Why the UK needs to eliminate measles … again
Jan 25, 2024
The terrifying, far-right ‘masterplan’ sparking protests across Germany
Jan 24, 2024
New Hampshire primary: the last chance to stop Trump?
Jan 23, 2024
The Freedom theatre – and the fight for Palestinian culture
Jan 22, 2024
The race for the moon
Jan 19, 2024
Cocaine, gangs and murder: Ecuador’s 10 days of terror
Jan 18, 2024
The Houthis and the Red Sea crisis
Jan 17, 2024
Will South Africa’s genocide case against Israel succeed?
Jan 16, 2024
Reform UK: the party frightening the Tories from the fringes
Jan 15, 2024
The Chinese shadow over Taiwan’s election
Jan 12, 2024
A new law to exonerate Post Office victims
Jan 11, 2024
The UK government v junior doctors
Jan 10, 2024