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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

john
 Feb 25, 2022
Sorry but the person telling the story has a really unpleasant voice.


 Jul 23, 2021

Natalie
 Oct 24, 2020
My go-to daily news podcast. One story covered in detail - balanced, but without moral compromise.

Simon
 Feb 28, 2020
really good show with a really good theme tune


 Jan 7, 2020

Justin
 Nov 8, 2019
My top news podcast


 Sep 30, 2019


 Sep 10, 2019

Chucky
 Jun 24, 2019
Consistently excellent at diving into the nitty-gritty of current affairs, quality investigative journalism, and interesting opinion positions. I'd recommend this to anyone!

Dante Critic
 Jun 23, 2019
The most in-depth & informative news podcast which actually makes you better understand the current world affairs. Each episode includes a comprehensive discussion of a news item & an opinion review. Very easy to listen to.

a nonny mouse
 Apr 20, 2019
very informative and interesting

Jesse Smith
 Mar 17, 2019
Consistently brilliant. Tuned in as a refugee from R4 Today, and it's more than healed that grief. I love the reflective style, and the combination/mix of broader view topics and headline analysis.


 Mar 8, 2019

DJ
 Dec 17, 2018
Really good reporting

SQ
 Dec 5, 2018
really informative

Teresa
 Nov 25, 2018
Really informative intelligent discussion of current news stories.

Description

Hosted by Nosheen Iqbal 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. 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
A resignation, a reshuffle and a roaring headache for Keir Starmer
Sep 09, 2025
Behind the scenes of the Guardian’s libel battle with Noel Clarke
Sep 08, 2025
Angela Rayner resigns – Today in Focus Extra
Sep 05, 2025
Would you have your legs broken to be taller?
Sep 05, 2025
Strongmen assemble: Putin, Kim and Xi in Beijing
Sep 04, 2025
Can the Green party’s new leader galvanise the left?
Sep 03, 2025
A North Korean defector on why Kim Jong Un has sent troops to Ukraine
Sep 02, 2025
Spy cameras: are you being watched?
Sep 01, 2025
Missing in the Amazon: the frontline – episode six
Aug 30, 2025
Missing in the Amazon: the fightback – episode five
Aug 29, 2025
Missing in the Amazon: the ambush – episode four
Aug 28, 2025
Missing in the Amazon: the protector and the poacher – episode three
Aug 27, 2025
Missing in the Amazon: the journalist and the president – episode two
Aug 26, 2025
Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode one
Aug 25, 2025
Noel Clarke loses his libel case against the Guardian – Today in Focus Extra
Aug 22, 2025
Cringe! Why millennials became so uncool
Aug 22, 2025
Sun, sea and struggle: growing up in England’s coastal towns
Aug 21, 2025
What price will Ukraine have to pay for peace?
Aug 20, 2025
How far-right rhetoric on migration went mainstream
Aug 19, 2025
Can Europe’s leaders drag Trump’s Ukraine policy back on track? – Today in Focus Extra podcast
Aug 18, 2025
Stephen Miller, Trump’s immigration mastermind
Aug 18, 2025
Ghosting, breadcrumbing, one-night stands: are we done with dating apps?
Aug 15, 2025
How Israel used Microsoft technology to spy on Palestinians
Aug 14, 2025
The secrets of the world’s richest company
Aug 13, 2025
The Trump-Putin summit
Aug 12, 2025
How the University of Edinburgh helped create scientific racism
Aug 11, 2025
Inside China’s fast-fashion factories as a US trade war looms
Aug 08, 2025
Has the digital nomad dream turned sour?
Aug 07, 2025
Is this the summer the British left comes back?
Aug 06, 2025
How the Trump administration made a sewage crisis ‘woke’
Aug 05, 2025
The Tesla whistleblower and the cost of taking on Elon Musk
Aug 04, 2025
Did lead poisoning help create a generation of serial killers?
Aug 01, 2025
How will the UK’s recognition of Palestine help those starving in Gaza?
Jul 31, 2025
Can people still protest about Palestine in the UK?
Jul 30, 2025
Protests against Zelenskyy as drones torment Ukraine
Jul 29, 2025
The hunt for the next Dalai Lama
Jul 28, 2025
Euros 25: Can the Lionesses bring it home again?
Jul 25, 2025
Donald Trump’s Epstein problem
Jul 24, 2025
Will the Epping hotel riots spark another summer of unrest?
Jul 23, 2025
What’s holding up a ceasefire in Gaza?
Jul 22, 2025
Has Elon Musk built a Nazi chatbot?
Jul 21, 2025
Why thousands of Afghans were secretly relocated to the UK
Jul 18, 2025
Why doctors are striking again
Jul 17, 2025
How the BBC got into a mess over Gaza
Jul 16, 2025
The law change that could transform toxic workplaces
Jul 15, 2025
Syria’s treasure hunting fever
Jul 14, 2025
Ulaanbaatar: a warning from the coldest capital on Earth
Jul 11, 2025
Is it time for a wealth tax on the super-rich?
Jul 10, 2025
Can we trust nuclear power again?
Jul 09, 2025
Trump’s big beautiful betrayal
Jul 08, 2025
A rogue fertility clinic, stolen eggs, and an unlikely friendship
Jul 07, 2025
Guilty... and not guilty: understanding the Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs verdict
Jul 04, 2025
The truth about Iran’s nuclear programme
Jul 03, 2025
A humiliating day for Keir Starmer in parliament
Jul 02, 2025
The French town that banned its tap water and the chemicals that could be in yours
Jul 01, 2025
What to watch, read and listen to this summer
Jun 30, 2025
Labour’s controversial welfare bill
Jun 27, 2025
Afraid of Israel, angry at the regime: Iranians on 12 days of war
Jun 26, 2025
The protest group the UK government wants to brand terrorists
Jun 25, 2025
Trump keeps Starmer out of the loop on Iran
Jun 24, 2025
Why Trump bombed Iran
Jun 22, 2025
Israel and Iran: where is the conflict heading? – Today in Focus extra
Jun 20, 2025
Film-maker Adam Curtis on why this moment feels so weird
Jun 20, 2025
What Israel’s new war means for Gaza
Jun 19, 2025
The Air India crash and the miracle of seat 11A
Jun 18, 2025
Israel’s war with Iran: what does it want?
Jun 17, 2025
Arise, Sir David Beckham
Jun 16, 2025
‘A declaration of war’: Israel’s strike on Iran – Today in Focus Extra
Jun 13, 2025
Donald Trump v Los Angeles
Jun 12, 2025
NHS, houses, nuclear submarines: Labour sets out its spending plans
Jun 12, 2025
250 days on hunger strike: Can Laila Soueif secure her son’s freedom?
Jun 11, 2025
Trump, Musk and the end of a bromance
Jun 10, 2025
Trump deploys the national guard in LA – Today in Focus Extra
Jun 09, 2025
Australia’s mushroom murder trial
Jun 09, 2025
Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1
Jun 07, 2025
The Swiss village buried by a glacier collapse
Jun 06, 2025
Is AI about to steal your job?
Jun 05, 2025
A trip to Musk city
Jun 04, 2025
Keir Starmer needs you: Britain readies for war
Jun 03, 2025
Making America pregnant again: the pro-natalist movement
Jun 02, 2025
What happened to body positivity?
May 30, 2025
The OpenAI empire
May 29, 2025
On trial for having an abortion
May 28, 2025
A horrifying end to Liverpool’s parade: Today in Focus Extra
May 27, 2025
Will Netanyahu bow to pressure from his allies?
May 27, 2025
My son Max, the boy who came back to life
May 26, 2025
The Olympics’ dirtiest race ever?
May 23, 2025
Vika: The journalist who exposed Russian “black sites”, then ended up in one
May 22, 2025
Are we finally over Brexit?
May 21, 2025
Opposing the war in Gaza, from inside Israel
May 20, 2025
How to not get pigeonholed - with Gary Younge
May 19, 2025
‘An island of strangers’: is this the Labour party voters wanted?
May 16, 2025
From president to fugitive: in the jungle hideout of Evo Morales
May 15, 2025
Trump’s ex-Russia adviser on the prospect of WW3
May 14, 2025
Back from the brink: India and Pakistan’s uneasy truce over Kashmir
May 13, 2025
Why you should quit your job and change the world
May 12, 2025
The heroic Guardian reporter who documented the rise of the Nazis - podcast
May 09, 2025
Israel’s plan to ‘conquer’ Gaza
May 08, 2025
India strikes Pakistan: what next? Today in Focus Extra
May 07, 2025
How to pick a pope
May 07, 2025
The Zelenskyy-Trump deal
May 06, 2025
Sabotage and secret identities: Russia’s spy network
May 05, 2025
How Kneecap became the most controversial band in the UK
May 02, 2025
The attack on Zamzam refugee camp and what it means for the Sudan war
May 01, 2025
Mehdi Hasan on Trump’s first 100 days
Apr 30, 2025
Labour v Reform UK: on the road in Runcorn
Apr 29, 2025
“Am I working class or insufferably bourgeois?”
Apr 28, 2025
Uncovering Black British history beyond London
Apr 25, 2025
Trump’s class war on Harvard
Apr 24, 2025
The UK supreme court and the definition of a woman
Apr 23, 2025
How Pope Francis changed the Catholic church, and what happens next
Apr 22, 2025
The authors taking on Mark Zuckerberg
Apr 21, 2025
Is the gym gen Z’s pub?
Apr 18, 2025
Trump’s trade war: the view from China
Apr 17, 2025
Trump’s deportation ‘mistake’: the man trapped in a prison in El Salvador
Apr 16, 2025
The scramble to save British Steel
Apr 15, 2025
Ta-Nehisi Coates on why stories matter in the age of Trump
Apr 14, 2025
How phone footage exposed a massacre of Gaza paramedics
Apr 11, 2025
Rats, rubbish and rising taxes: why Birmingham stinks right now
Apr 10, 2025
Will Trump’s tariffs tip the world into recession?
Apr 09, 2025
Is it safe to visit the US?
Apr 08, 2025
The surprising crisis in British television
Apr 07, 2025
How the Beatles helped my autistic son find his voice
Apr 04, 2025
Will Trump’s tariffs ignite a global trade war? Today in Focus Extra
Apr 03, 2025
How will Myanmar’s earthquake impact the civil war?
Apr 03, 2025
Could Marine Le Pen’s guilty verdict help fuel the far right?
Apr 02, 2025
The Tesla backlash
Apr 01, 2025
Adolescence: what teen boys really think of girls, influencers and porn
Mar 31, 2025
From the Oscars to Israeli detention: the attack on No Other Land director Hamdan Ballal – podcast
Mar 28, 2025
Weapons vs welfare: Rachel Reeves spring statement
Mar 27, 2025
The arrest that plunged Turkey into turmoil
Mar 26, 2025
Living with long Covid when the world has moved on
Mar 25, 2025
Who is the real JD Vance?
Mar 24, 2025
Having a baby with your best mate
Mar 21, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil and Trump’s assault on free speech
Mar 20, 2025
Labour’s controversial benefit cuts
Mar 19, 2025
Israel shatters Gaza ceasefire – Today in Focus Extra
Mar 18, 2025
Inside Glasgow’s drug consumption room
Mar 18, 2025
The price of a perfect playlist
Mar 17, 2025
Will Putin derail Trump’s peace plan? – Today in Focus Extra
Mar 14, 2025
A spy ring – and a love triangle
Mar 14, 2025
Is Nigel Farage losing his grip on Reform UK?
Mar 13, 2025
Can Canada’s ‘rockstar banker’ PM take on Trump and win?
Mar 12, 2025
Can Europe defend itself alone?
Mar 11, 2025
Finding a cannabis farm in your house
Mar 10, 2025
Revisited: the spy cops scandal (part 2)
Mar 09, 2025
Revisited: The spy cops scandal (part 1)
Mar 08, 2025
Inside the Islamic State prisons the west is trying to forget
Mar 07, 2025
Exposed: listening in on a $35m phone scam
Mar 06, 2025
How far will Trump’s embrace of Russia go?
Mar 05, 2025
Trump v Zelenskyy: the view from Ukraine
Mar 04, 2025
The doctors detained in Gaza: ‘He was dragged from the operating theatre’
Mar 03, 2025
Joy, hope and murder in free Syria
Feb 28, 2025
Can Spain make immigration a vote-winner?
Feb 27, 2025
Undercover in the House of Lords
Feb 26, 2025
Can the ‘special relationship’ survive Donald Trump?
Feb 25, 2025
The murder and legacy of the world’s first openly gay imam
Feb 24, 2025
A German election road trip with the far right on the up
Feb 21, 2025
Has Hezbollah really been defeated?
Feb 20, 2025
Will British troops be sent to Ukraine?
Feb 19, 2025
How Trump left Ukraine and Europe reeling
Feb 18, 2025
The man with Elon Musk’s chip in his brain
Feb 17, 2025
Shon Faye on love and dating as a trans woman
Feb 14, 2025
What Trump’s assault on USAid means for the world
Feb 13, 2025
Why giving up the Chagos Islands could cost Britain £9bn
Feb 12, 2025
Lucy Letby and the medical experts who believe she is innocent
Feb 11, 2025
How Trump made ‘diversity’ a dirty word
Feb 10, 2025
Going bald in an increasingly hairy world
Feb 07, 2025
Gaza, trade wars and the chaos of Trump diplomacy
Feb 06, 2025
Why has Trump made the Panama canal a top priority?
Feb 05, 2025
‘A city of ghosts’: two Gaza residents return home
Feb 04, 2025
Alice Weidel: the far-right banker Elon Musk wants as German chancellor
Feb 03, 2025
How DeepSeek stunned the AI industry
Jan 31, 2025
A journey to Greenland: Trump’s 51st state?
Jan 30, 2025
Rachel Reeves’ plans for the UK: all growth, no green?
Jan 29, 2025
The Omagh bombing inquiry: one father’s 26-year fight for the truth
Jan 28, 2025
Revisited: Life after Auschwitz
Jan 27, 2025
Digital demons: the radical new treatment helping people with psychosis
Jan 27, 2025
Southport attacks: the failures that allowed Axel Rudakubana to kill
Jan 24, 2025
Why is AI so thirsty?
Jan 23, 2025
The first days of Trump and the migrant raids to come
Jan 22, 2025
The financial time bomb facing special educational needs
Jan 21, 2025
Trump 2.0
Jan 20, 2025
Finally, a ceasefire in Gaza
Jan 17, 2025
A golden age of cancer treatment?
Jan 17, 2025
The resignation of Tulip Siddiq
Jan 16, 2025
‘The entire community is just gone’: inside the Los Angeles wildfires
Jan 15, 2025
A new Facebook for the era of President Trump
Jan 14, 2025
Culture 2025: what to watch, read and listen to this year
Jan 13, 2025
It was a wildlife conservation triumph, then came the corpses
Jan 10, 2025
Elon Musk’s political evolution
Jan 09, 2025
Are private schools losing their grip on the British elite?
Jan 08, 2025
The month that changed South Korea for ever
Jan 07, 2025
Friendship across the parenting divide
Jan 06, 2025
How Britain fell in love with darts
Jan 03, 2025
How to have a perfectly imperfect 2025
Jan 02, 2025
Revisited: Ten years of equal marriage – what has it changed?
Jan 01, 2025
Revisited: From child refugee to Guardian reporter: one journalist’s extraordinary story
Dec 31, 2024
Revisited: The mother who forgave her daughters’ killer – but not the police
Dec 30, 2024
Revisited: The man who fell to Earth
Dec 27, 2024
Revisited: The birdwatcher fighting racism in public spaces
Dec 26, 2024
Revisited: Creating The Spark: the kids behind 2024’s surprise summer hit
Dec 25, 2024
How the Guardian reported 2024
Dec 24, 2024
A radical way to teach contested history
Dec 23, 2024
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