Today in Focus

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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.

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Hosted by Michael Safi and Helen Pidd, Today in Focus brings you closer to Guardian journalism. Combining personal storytelling with insightful analysis, this podcast takes you behind the headlines for a deeper understanding of the news, every weekday. Today in Focus features journalists such as: Kiran Stacey, Pippa Crerar, Alex Hern, Peter Walker, Luke Harding, Andrew Roth, Shaun Walker and Jim Waterson. The podcast is a topical, deep dive, explainer on a story in the news, covering: current affairs, politics, investigations, leaks, and scandals. It might cover, for example, topics such as: the environment, green issues, climate change, the climate emergency and global warming; American politics including: Biden, Trump, the White House, the GOP, the Republicans and the Republican Party, the Democrats and the Democratic Party; UK politics including: parliament, Labour, the Conservative party, the Liberal Democrats, Rishi Sunak, and Keir Starmer; culture; the royals and the royal family, including King Charles III; HS2; the police; Ukraine; Russia; and Bangladesh

Episode Date
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
The release of Oscar Pistorius
Jan 09, 2024
Revisited: The Post Office scandal, part 2
Jan 08, 2024
Revisited: the Post Office scandal – part 1
Jan 08, 2024
Culture 2024: what to watch and listen to this year
Jan 08, 2024
Bombs, boat sinkings and assassinations: is the Middle East descending into war?
Jan 05, 2024
Why are there so few Black sperm donors in the US?
Jan 04, 2024
2024: what happens when US and UK elections collide?
Jan 03, 2024
How to reboot your memory for 2024
Jan 02, 2024
Revisited: Cost of the crown part 6 – how King Charles profits from the assets of dead citizens
Jan 01, 2024
Revisited: Cost of the crown part 5 – the coronation of Charles III
Dec 31, 2023
Revisited: Cost of the crown part 4 – calculating the king’s wealth
Dec 30, 2023
Revisited: Cost of the crown, part 3 – the hidden history of the monarchy and slavery
Dec 29, 2023
Revisited: Cost of the crown part 2 – duchies, diamonds and Dalís
Dec 28, 2023
Revisited: Cost of the crown part 1 – valuing the royal family
Dec 27, 2023
Revisited: From Blair to Starmer: Labour’s path to power, part 2 – podcast
Dec 26, 2023
Revisited: From Blair to Starmer: Labour’s path to power, part 1
Dec 25, 2023
How the Guardian covered 2023
Dec 22, 2023
The ‘cruel’ new visa rules set to break up families
Dec 21, 2023
John Crace’s political year
Dec 20, 2023
Ukraine’s fight for funds to keep Russia at bay
Dec 19, 2023
The Barclays and the battle for the Telegraph
Dec 18, 2023
How Madonna changed pop culture for ever
Dec 15, 2023
Is Israel deliberately trying to make Gaza uninhabitable? – Podcast
Dec 14, 2023
Rishi Sunak, Rwanda and the rebels
Dec 13, 2023
Why Argentinians are gambling everything on ‘anarcho-capitalist’ Javier Milei
Dec 12, 2023
The stories behind Europe’s unmarked migrant graves – podcast
Dec 11, 2023
Sellafield: Europe’s most toxic nuclear site
Dec 08, 2023
Revisited: a conversation with Benjamin Zephaniah
Dec 07, 2023
The lives and lies of George Santos
Dec 07, 2023
Boris Johnson v the Covid inquiry
Dec 06, 2023
Why are so many councils going ‘bankrupt’?
Dec 05, 2023
Why is the Israel-Hamas conflict so deadly for journalists?
Dec 04, 2023
Israel-Gaza: a week of tearful reunions and an uneasy truce
Dec 01, 2023
The secret plan to ‘hook’ the developing world on oil
Nov 30, 2023
Geert Wilders and Europe’s lurch to the far right
Nov 29, 2023
How King Charles profits from the assets of dead citizens
Nov 28, 2023
The spy tech firm managing NHS data
Nov 27, 2023
He’s back: Sam Altman and the chaos at the heart of the AI industry
Nov 24, 2023
Can tax cuts save the Tories?
Nov 23, 2023
A truce agreement in Gaza
Nov 22, 2023
How much legal trouble is Donald Trump in?
Nov 21, 2023
The families stuck living in Britain’s unlicensed bedsits
Nov 20, 2023
Israel’s raid on al-Shifa hospital
Nov 17, 2023
How the UK government’s Rwanda asylum plan came unstuck
Nov 16, 2023
Has Putin got the upper hand in Ukraine?
Nov 15, 2023
The return of David Cameron
Nov 14, 2023
Rebuilding Paradise: five years on from California’s deadliest fire
Nov 13, 2023
Suella Braverman, the police and the protests
Nov 10, 2023
What will it take to free the hostages taken by Hamas?
Nov 09, 2023
Fear and fury in the West Bank
Nov 08, 2023
Crypto on trial: the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried
Nov 07, 2023
Why are Britain’s new homes so rubbish?
Nov 06, 2023
How oligarchs use English courts to silence their critics
Nov 03, 2023
How the Israel-Gaza conflict is dividing Labour
Nov 02, 2023
Is the AI safety summit already too late?
Nov 01, 2023
‘We’re totally isolated’: inside Gaza as Israel’s war intensifies
Oct 31, 2023
What we’ve learned so far from the Covid inquiry
Oct 30, 2023
The last whale hunter in Iceland
Oct 27, 2023
The rise of antisemitism in the UK
Oct 26, 2023
In the wake of Storm Babet
Oct 25, 2023
Could the conflict in Israel tip into regional war?
Oct 24, 2023
How a contested history feeds the Israel-Palestine conflict
Oct 23, 2023
How Taylor Swift built her music empire
Oct 20, 2023
Kicking out the populists: how young voters helped swing Poland’s election
Oct 19, 2023
The deadly stakes of a ground invasion of Gaza
Oct 18, 2023
Is the SNP’s independence dream fading?
Oct 17, 2023
The hidden cost of cancer
Oct 16, 2023
The fight to give Indigenous Australians a voice
Oct 13, 2023
Human catastrophe unfolds in Israel and Gaza
Oct 12, 2023
Keir Starmer’s plan to rebuild Britain
Oct 11, 2023
From Blair to Starmer: Labour’s path to power – part 2
Oct 10, 2023
How the Israel-Gaza conflict erupted
Oct 09, 2023
From Blair to Starmer: Labour’s path to power, part 1
Oct 09, 2023
Why Britain is mourning the Sycamore Gap tree
Oct 06, 2023
Do Rishi Sunak's new policies add up?
Oct 05, 2023
HS2: how the costly rail project ran out of track
Oct 04, 2023
Out in the cold: the spy scandal gripping Denmark
Oct 03, 2023
Gangs of Stockholm: the rise of gun crime in Sweden
Oct 02, 2023
Culture 2023: the films, music and TV shows not to miss this autumn
Sep 29, 2023
Nagorno Karabakh: Why a frozen conflict suddenly exploded
Sep 28, 2023
Overcrowded and understaffed: life in England’s crumbling prisons
Sep 27, 2023
Why are London firearms officers laying down their guns?
Sep 26, 2023
The Blind Side and Hollywood’s blind spot
Sep 25, 2023
Looking for alternatives: a tale of two German towns
Sep 22, 2023
Rishi Sunak’s net zero U-turn
Sep 21, 2023
The destruction of Derna
Sep 20, 2023
The horrifying allegations against Russell Brand
Sep 19, 2023
Naomi Klein’s doppelganger
Sep 18, 2023
What have a year of protests really changed in Iran?
Sep 15, 2023
Ukraine’s counteroffensive: breaking the Russian lines
Sep 14, 2023
A day in the ruins of Morocco’s earthquake
Sep 13, 2023
The concrete crisis: is Britain falling apart?
Sep 12, 2023
Has the plant-based food revolution lost its sizzle?
Sep 11, 2023
The mystery of Bangladesh’s missing children – part three
Sep 08, 2023
The scandal of Bangladesh’s missing children – part two
Sep 07, 2023
The mystery of Bangladesh’s missing children – part one
Sep 06, 2023
How safe are the priceless treasures in our museums?
Sep 05, 2023
The chilling rise of AI scams
Sep 04, 2023
The curious world of the Guardian’s Experience column
Sep 01, 2023
Why wasn’t Lucy Letby stopped sooner?
Aug 31, 2023
Rats, fires and floods: why Parliament is falling down
Aug 30, 2023
The final weeks of Yevgeny Prigozhin
Aug 29, 2023
Revisited: Trafficked: Marta – part four – podcast
Aug 28, 2023
Revisited: Trafficked: the operation – part three – podcast
Aug 27, 2023
Revisited: Trafficked: the closed door – part two
Aug 26, 2023
Revisited: Trafficked: the trap – part one
Aug 25, 2023
Cotton Capital: Reparations – episode 6
Aug 24, 2023
Cotton Capital: Resistance – episode 5
Aug 23, 2023
Cotton Capital: The Brazilian connection – episode 4
Aug 22, 2023
Cotton Capital: The Sea Islands – episode 3
Aug 21, 2023
Cotton Capital: The meaning of Success – episode 2
Aug 20, 2023
Cotton Capital: The bee and the ship – episode 1
Aug 19, 2023
The wellness-to-conspiracy pipeline
Aug 18, 2023
Why were the wildfires in Hawaii so deadly?
Aug 17, 2023
The mystery of the Crooked House fire
Aug 16, 2023
The Bibby Stockholm saga
Aug 15, 2023
Uncovering the truth of the Nazi occupation of the Channel Islands
Aug 14, 2023
How the search for UFOs reached the US Congress
Aug 11, 2023
The Qur’an burnings in Sweden: who is fanning the flames? – podcast
Aug 10, 2023
Why the rest of the world can’t afford to ignore the coup in Niger
Aug 09, 2023
The legacy of Sinéad O’Connor
Aug 08, 2023
How can we escape burnout? | Podcast
Aug 07, 2023
Donald Trump’s January 6 indictment
Aug 04, 2023
Rishi Sunak’s anti-green gamble
Aug 03, 2023
Life in the UK for one of China’s most wanted
Aug 02, 2023
Why is Hollywood on strike? (And why Succession's Brian Cox is joining them)
Aug 01, 2023
The novelist who became a war crimes investigator – and uncovered a secret diary - Podcast
Jul 31, 2023
Why Nigel Farage’s bank account matters so much
Jul 28, 2023
Climate crisis up close: a week of wildfires in Rhodes
Jul 27, 2023
The class of 2023: the UK’s unluckiest students
Jul 26, 2023
The Great British motorcycle scam – part two
Jul 25, 2023
The Great British motorcycle scam – part one
Jul 24, 2023
Why we are all living in a Barbie world – podcast
Jul 21, 2023
Extreme heat: a warning shot from nature
Jul 20, 2023
The World Cup and the future of women’s football
Jul 19, 2023
Could your clothes be making you sick? | Podcast
Jul 18, 2023
Has Britain become a country of shoplifters?
Jul 17, 2023
The Sun, the BBC and Huw Edwards: the story of a scandal
Jul 14, 2023
Will Mark Zuckerberg’s Threads unravel Twitter?
Jul 13, 2023
Putin v Prigozhin: is Wagner too valuable to crush?
Jul 12, 2023
Cure or fad? The truth about weight loss drugs | Podcast
Jul 11, 2023
Payback or play? The orcas sinking yachts
Jul 10, 2023
What the raid on Jenin says about the future of Israel and Palestine
Jul 07, 2023
Can Biden solve his supreme court problem?
Jul 06, 2023
Why are so many children refusing to go to school? | Podcast
Jul 05, 2023
The killing of Nahel – and a week of grief and fury in France
Jul 04, 2023
Tuvalu – how do you save a disappearing country?
Jul 03, 2023
The Republican race for 2024: can anyone stop Trump?
Jun 30, 2023
Guards at Del Monte pineapple farm in Kenya accused of killings
Jun 29, 2023
The oil company CEO running the next UN climate change summit
Jun 28, 2023
What the Wagner mutiny means for Ukraine, Russia and Putin
Jun 27, 2023
A violent homicide – and a pioneering act of forgiveness | Podcast
Jun 26, 2023
How the Windrush generation shaped British culture
Jun 23, 2023
Britain’s mortgage timebomb
Jun 22, 2023
Held v Montana: the young people fighting for the climate in court
Jun 21, 2023
Why police are stepping back from mental health callouts
Jun 20, 2023
The death of the Unabomber: will his dangerous influence live on? – podcast
Jun 19, 2023
Boris Johnson: the damning verdict
Jun 16, 2023
Is it time to decriminalise abortion in the UK?
Jun 15, 2023
How Saudi Arabia took over professional golf
Jun 14, 2023
The long shadows of Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon
Jun 13, 2023
What’s behind the rise in dog attacks?
Jun 12, 2023
Prince Harry versus the Mirror
Jun 09, 2023
The destruction of the Kakhovka dam
Jun 08, 2023
How to develop artificial super-intelligence without destroying humanity
Jun 07, 2023
What is the UK government hiding from the Covid inquiry?
Jun 06, 2023
Our critics’ guide to a summer of music, movies and culture
Jun 05, 2023
Is Manchester City’s dominance of English football fair?
Jun 02, 2023
Sofas, smiles – and scandal: what’s going on at ITV’s This Morning?
Jun 01, 2023
Tracking down Ukraine’s abducted children
May 31, 2023
Bashar al-Assad’s dark return to the world stage
May 30, 2023
The Murdochs' real-life succession drama | Podcast
May 29, 2023
A spying scandal and lots of coffee: how Guardian Australia launched 10 years ago
May 27, 2023
Conspiracy theories and chaos: a week watching GB News
May 26, 2023
How a killing on New York subway exposed a broken system – podcast
May 25, 2023
Is Suella Braverman speeding towards a government exit?
May 24, 2023
From pollution to policing – can Sadiq Khan clean up London?
May 23, 2023
Why California is dismantling its death row
May 22, 2023
National Conservatism: a Tory fringe or the party’s future?
May 19, 2023
Can Imran Khan really take on the Pakistani army and win?
May 18, 2023
Has Ukraine’s spring offensive begun?
May 17, 2023
Erdoğan survives, but will Turkish democracy?
May 16, 2023
Is the UK in the grip of ‘greedflation’?
May 15, 2023
Hosting Ukraine’s Eurovision party
May 12, 2023
The killing of Shireen Abu Akleh – and another ordinary day in the West Bank
May 11, 2023
Did distress calls go unanswered in the run-up to a fatal Channel disaster?
May 10, 2023
Why ‘godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton thinks humanity at crossroads
May 09, 2023
Cotton Capital: the Guardian and reparations
May 08, 2023
Cost of the crown part 5: the coronation of Charles III
May 05, 2023
Cost of the crown part 4: calculating the king’s wealth
May 04, 2023
Cost of the crown part 3: the hidden history of the monarchy and slavery
May 03, 2023
Cost of the crown part 2: Duchies, diamonds and Dalis
May 02, 2023
Cost of the crown part 1: valuing the royal family
May 01, 2023
Prince Harry and the return of the phone hacking scandal
Apr 28, 2023
Funding, forensics – and a fridge freezer? The investigation into the SNP
Apr 27, 2023
Why are London’s schools disappearing?
Apr 26, 2023
A bullying politician or snowflake civil servants? The downfall of Dominic Raab
Apr 25, 2023
Embracing a childfree life
Apr 24, 2023
Are we facing a summer of sporting protests?
Apr 21, 2023
Sudan’s warring generals
Apr 20, 2023
The court case pushing Indian democracy to the brink – podcast
Apr 19, 2023
The Pentagon leaks: how did US security files end up on Discord? – podcast
Apr 18, 2023
Why are British audiences suddenly so out of control?
Apr 17, 2023
Investigating alleged sexual misconduct at the CBI
Apr 14, 2023
Why has the Labour party turned nasty?
Apr 13, 2023
Is artificial intelligence getting out of control?
Apr 12, 2023
The ‘nice, ordinary’ family suspected of being Russian spies
Apr 11, 2023
Xi Jinping and the battle over China’s memory of the Cultural Revolution
Apr 10, 2023
‘Peace babies’ and the birth of the Good Friday agreement
Apr 07, 2023
Inside Tennessee, America’s most stringent anti-abortion state
Apr 06, 2023
Why headteachers are fighting back against Ofsted inspections
Apr 05, 2023
The indictment of Donald Trump
Apr 04, 2023
Cotton Capital: the bee and the ship – examining the Guardian’s links to slavery
Apr 03, 2023
How raising the retirement age set France on fire
Mar 31, 2023
Why are British teenagers being locked up in ‘re-education camps’?
Mar 30, 2023
Who is Humza Yousaf and how will he change Scotland?
Mar 29, 2023
‘It’s way beyond just science’: untangling the hunt for Covid’s origins
Mar 28, 2023
Exposing the myth of Britain’s ‘perfect’ war against Islamic State
Mar 27, 2023
Trafficked: Marta - part four
Mar 26, 2023
Trafficked: the operation – part three
Mar 25, 2023
Trafficked: the closed door – part 2
Mar 24, 2023
Trafficked: the trap – part one
Mar 23, 2023
Britain’s biggest police force is racist, sexist, and homophobic - can it change? – podcast
Mar 22, 2023
Is it time to delete TikTok?
Mar 21, 2023
The accidental journalist who covered the war in Iraq
Mar 20, 2023