Beyond Today

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Esther
 Jan 23, 2021
Really love this podcast. I hope there will be new episodes!


 Jan 20, 2020

Beagle2
 Jan 2, 2020
Great contribution to the pod universe. Sometimes too much time spent on preamble and not enough on detail relating to the question.

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Beyond Today is the daily podcast from Radio 4 that asks one big question about one big story in the news - and beyond. Tina Daheley, Matthew Price, and a team of curious producers search for answers that change the way we see the world. They speak to the BBC’s unrivalled global network of reporters, plus occasional special guests, to tell stories about identity, technology, and power - where it lies and how that is changing.


Episode Date
Do we really understand drill?
Mar 17, 2020
Will coronavirus take away our jobs?
Mar 16, 2020
Is wokeness just white guilt?
Mar 13, 2020
Is coronavirus 'worse' than flu?
Mar 12, 2020
Why would you transition twice?
Mar 11, 2020
Why are teens getting pregnant in Middlesbrough?
Mar 10, 2020
What made Dubai’s princesses run away?
Mar 09, 2020
How do you fight anti-Semitism?
Mar 06, 2020
Should Priti Patel resign?
Mar 05, 2020
Why are people rioting in Delhi?
Mar 04, 2020
Does France have a #MeToo problem?
Mar 03, 2020
Can we be green and rich?
Mar 02, 2020
Does self-care really make you happy?
Feb 28, 2020
What’s the Harvey Weinstein story?
Feb 27, 2020
What are police cameras doing with your face print?
Feb 26, 2020
Coronavirus: are we all going to catch it?
Feb 25, 2020
Why would Facebook want to crack down on big tech?
Feb 24, 2020
Has Billie Eilish saved the music industry?
Feb 21, 2020
How should we react to Caroline Flack’s death?
Feb 20, 2020
Why is No 10 hiring ‘weirdos’?
Feb 19, 2020
Why is Trump standing up for religious teenagers?
Feb 18, 2020
How do you track extremists online?
Feb 17, 2020
Why can’t we sleep?
Feb 14, 2020
Why are people being deported to Jamaica?
Feb 13, 2020
Why would anyone spread lies about coronavirus?
Feb 12, 2020
Why are more young women killing themselves?
Feb 11, 2020
Parasite: what does it say about South Korea?
Feb 10, 2020
Why are we talking about Michael Barrymore?
Feb 07, 2020
Is it all looking good for Trump?
Feb 06, 2020
How did a lying breast surgeon destroy so many lives?
Feb 05, 2020
How do you stop a terror attack?
Feb 04, 2020
Why was an Irish teenager’s body found in a bag?
Feb 03, 2020
Veganuary: was it worth it?
Jan 31, 2020
Why are so many Vietnamese people trafficked?
Jan 30, 2020
Did Huawei just win a tech war?
Jan 29, 2020
Coronavirus: what’s really happening?
Jan 28, 2020
What does Goop get right?
Jan 27, 2020
What happened when Trump removed the experts?
Jan 24, 2020
Harvey Weinstein: Is #MeToo on trial?
Jan 23, 2020
What’s wrong with ayahuasca tourism?
Jan 22, 2020
Can a new leader save Labour?
Jan 21, 2020
Is Blue Monday bad for our mental health?
Jan 20, 2020
What’s left out of Sex Education?
Jan 17, 2020
What happened when Iran fired back?
Jan 16, 2020
How do they really decide an Oscar?
Jan 15, 2020
Could AI do your job?
Jan 14, 2020
How did Britain’s worst serial rapist get away with it?
Jan 13, 2020
Should doctors tell you how to live?
Jan 10, 2020
Harry and Meghan: can you quit the royals?
Jan 09, 2020
Ayia Napa: how can she be guilty?
Jan 08, 2020
Iran: how bad is it?
Jan 07, 2020
Australian fires: who is to blame?
Jan 06, 2020
2010s: how did they sound?
Dec 20, 2019
Putin: man of the millennium?
Dec 19, 2019
Raheem Sterling: is he the next Beckham?
Dec 18, 2019
Did Trump kill the Kurdish dream?
Dec 17, 2019
Amazon: is there any escape?
Dec 16, 2019
Tory win: why are you surprised?
Dec 13, 2019
Hannah Fry: how scary are algorithms really?
Dec 12, 2019
How come there are protests everywhere?
Dec 11, 2019
Will you be judged for who you vote for?
Dec 10, 2019
Why are young people moving back to Mogadishu?
Dec 09, 2019
Jia Tolentino: is the internet fuelling self-delusion?
Dec 06, 2019
Why is Trump pardoning war crimes?
Dec 05, 2019
Does climate activism have a privilege problem?
Dec 04, 2019
Can terrorists ever really be rehabilitated?
Dec 03, 2019
Is TikTok being censored?
Dec 02, 2019
Hillsborough: do we inherit trauma?
Nov 29, 2019
Grace Millane: why is ‘rough sex’ a defence?
Nov 28, 2019
Why is Instagram hiding likes?
Nov 27, 2019
Blue Story: is banning the film racist?
Nov 26, 2019
Are billionaires a bad thing?
Nov 25, 2019
Drag Race: what’s it done for queer culture?
Nov 22, 2019
Is mental health breaking the NHS?
Nov 21, 2019
What’s wrong with plastic surgery?
Nov 20, 2019
Has the royal soap opera lost the plot?
Nov 19, 2019
Why aren’t we talking about Baptista Adjei?
Nov 18, 2019
Does self-care really make you happy?
Nov 15, 2019
Election memes: are we being played?
Nov 14, 2019
Why did a Chinese row ruin a bake off?
Nov 13, 2019
Why are bombs going off in Sweden?
Nov 12, 2019
Who killed Jodie Chesney?
Nov 11, 2019
Do the Peru Two deserve a second chance?
Nov 08, 2019
Caitlyn Jenner: what’s your story?
Nov 07, 2019
Death Stranding: more than a game?
Nov 06, 2019
What happened to the Taliban?
Nov 05, 2019
What really decides your vote?
Nov 04, 2019
Why are millennials obsessed with astrology?
Nov 01, 2019
Lorry deaths: why spend thousands to reach the UK?
Oct 31, 2019
Why are people ‘cured’ by fake science?
Oct 30, 2019
Who are you Jonathan Van Ness?
Oct 29, 2019
Baghdadi: Trump’s movie moment?
Oct 28, 2019
Esther Perel: does ‘the one’ exist?
Oct 25, 2019
What happened to the lost boys of Lanarkshire?
Oct 24, 2019
Why does Facebook want you to date?
Oct 23, 2019
How did dirty money fund The Wolf of Wall Street?
Oct 22, 2019
Brexit: nearly done?
Oct 21, 2019
Cambridge Analytica: could it happen again?
Oct 18, 2019
Why would Nike sponsor a cheat?
Oct 17, 2019
What actually happened in Ayia Napa?
Oct 16, 2019
Has Trump revived Islamic State?
Oct 15, 2019
What’s it like at a Brexit Party rally?
Oct 14, 2019
Who controls our AI future?
Oct 11, 2019
How do you fight a surveillance state?
Oct 10, 2019
How is ‘pick-up’ culture still a thing?
Oct 09, 2019
Why do diplomats escape the law?
Oct 08, 2019
What does Windrush mean now?
Oct 07, 2019
Why is Prince Harry taking on the press?
Oct 04, 2019
What will the history books say about Brexit?
Oct 03, 2019
Will Saudi get away with murder?
Oct 02, 2019
Could one phone call end Trump’s presidency?
Oct 01, 2019
Why raise a child gender neutral?
Sep 30, 2019
Alain de Botton: do we need God back?
Sep 27, 2019
Sexual assault: what happens after students speak out?
Sep 26, 2019
Sexual assault: why reveal your name?
Sep 25, 2019
Will fear save the planet?
Sep 24, 2019
What’s happening in the Supreme Court?
Sep 23, 2019
Emma Barnett: why talk about periods?
Sep 20, 2019
Cryptoqueen: why did she disappear?
Sep 19, 2019
Did one family create the opioid epidemic?
Sep 18, 2019
Sam Smith: what’s the problem with ‘them’?
Sep 17, 2019
Syria: why bomb hospitals?
Sep 16, 2019
Top Boy: what’s the story behind the comeback?
Sep 13, 2019
Vaping: can it kill you?
Sep 12, 2019
Femicide: is one student’s murder changing South Africa?
Sep 11, 2019
The Handmaid’s Tale: could it happen in real life?
Sep 10, 2019
How does slavery work now?
Sep 09, 2019
Malcolm Gladwell
Sep 06, 2019
Brexit: what happens next?
Sep 05, 2019
What’s the problem with only eating chips?
Sep 04, 2019
What’s it like to have “gay conversion therapy”?
Sep 03, 2019
Brexit: are we all radicals now?
Sep 02, 2019
Sara Pascoe: why does gender matter?
Aug 30, 2019
Brexit: what just happened?
Aug 29, 2019
Who does the Amazon belong to?
Aug 28, 2019
Will Greta save the planet?
Aug 27, 2019
Louis Theroux (again)
Aug 26, 2019
Was Larnell Bruce killed because he was black?
Aug 23, 2019
Paul Pogba: should we end anonymity online?
Aug 22, 2019
Why did Iceland hold a funeral for a glacier?
Aug 21, 2019
Is the way we work bad for us?
Aug 20, 2019
Kashmir: what happens now?
Aug 19, 2019
Why did Israeli spies build a fake beach resort?
Aug 16, 2019
How did a Tinder date story fool us?
Aug 15, 2019
University: is it worth it?
Aug 14, 2019
Jeffrey Epstein: how much do we really know?
Aug 13, 2019
How did gambling take over football?
Aug 12, 2019
Cyntoia Brown: did Kim Kardashian get her out of prison?
Aug 09, 2019
No deal: will it happen?
Aug 08, 2019
No deal: what’s going to happen to our food?
Aug 07, 2019
What happens when you run out of water?
Aug 06, 2019
US shootings: can you shut down the white nationalists?
Aug 05, 2019
How do we smash the class ceiling?
Aug 02, 2019
Doping: why would you risk it?
Aug 01, 2019
Why does Donald Trump care about A$AP Rocky?
Jul 31, 2019
Will human contact become a luxury good?
Jul 30, 2019
Is big business coming for cannabis?
Jul 29, 2019
What does Love Island tell us about friendship?
Jul 26, 2019
Do we want funny politicians?
Jul 25, 2019
What do companies do with your face?
Jul 24, 2019
Who is Boris Johnson?
Jul 23, 2019
Theresa May: where did it all go wrong?
Jul 22, 2019
Is the truth open source?
Jul 19, 2019
MH17: how was the truth uncovered?
Jul 18, 2019
Did Lyra McKee’s death change anything?
Jul 17, 2019
Did YouTube flatten the Earth?
Jul 16, 2019
Louis Theroux
Jul 15, 2019
Deadliest Day 6: Finding quiet
Jul 08, 2019
Deadliest Day 5: Nobody can measure
Jul 08, 2019
Deadliest Day 4: Remedial banter
Jul 08, 2019
Deadliest Day 3: Dead eyes
Jul 08, 2019
Deadliest Day 2: That day
Jul 08, 2019
Deadliest Day 1: Thrill of war
Jul 08, 2019
Vampire Weekend at Glastonbury
Jul 05, 2019
Pride: when is a rainbow not enough?
Jul 04, 2019
Could hashtags save Sudan?
Jul 03, 2019
How did Anna Campbell end up dead in Syria?
Jul 02, 2019
Kim Jong-un: how did ‘rocket man’ and Trump become friends?
Jul 01, 2019
Glastonbury: how did the hippies go mainstream?
Jun 28, 2019
Heatwave: is this climate change?
Jun 27, 2019
Will the Gangnam sex scandal change Korea?
Jun 26, 2019
Is Boris Johnson untouchable?
Jun 25, 2019
Why are Muslims in China being locked up?
Jun 24, 2019
Johny Pitts: Afropean
Jun 21, 2019
What did a police shooting reveal about Huddersfield?
Jun 20, 2019
Have Hong Kong’s young people held back China’s superpower?
Jun 19, 2019
Thai cave rescue: what really happened?
Jun 18, 2019
Why are teenagers paid to stab each other?
Jun 17, 2019
Michael Barbaro
Jun 14, 2019
Should we kill elephants to save them?
Jun 13, 2019
Grenfell: what have we learnt?
Jun 12, 2019
Black Mirror: what makes it work?
Jun 11, 2019
Why aren’t lesbian couples taken seriously?
Jun 10, 2019
James Bridle
Jun 07, 2019
DNA testing: is it worth it?
Jun 06, 2019
What happens when you get health advice on Instagram?
Jun 05, 2019
Tiananmen: how dangerous is protest in China now?
Jun 04, 2019
Why did the Windsors want to meet the Trumps?
Jun 03, 2019
Is this a golden age for English football?
May 31, 2019
Why is Malaysia sending our rubbish back?
May 30, 2019
Fortnite: more than a video game?
May 29, 2019
Why is it so hard to go undercover?
May 28, 2019
What does Europe think?
May 24, 2019
How did Jamie Oliver change food culture?
May 23, 2019
Why is revenge porn still spreading?
May 22, 2019
Huawei: what’s the problem with Chinese phones?
May 21, 2019
Why are female MPs terror targets?
May 20, 2019
Reni Eddo-Lodge
May 17, 2019
How did Amar find his mum?
May 16, 2019
What does the Hollywood college scandal tell us about class privilege?
May 15, 2019
Could Eurovision change Israel and the Palestinians?
May 14, 2019
Is Uber stalling?
May 13, 2019
Anna Sorokin: how do you fake your way into high society?
May 10, 2019
What does one rape trial tell us about lad culture and consent?
May 09, 2019
When does a royal become a celebrity?
May 08, 2019
Chernobyl: how do we split fact from fiction?
May 07, 2019
Why is Korean spy cam porn everyone’s problem?
May 06, 2019
Who would be a politician?
May 03, 2019
Is Caster Semenya a victim?
May 02, 2019
Does it matter if we can’t afford to live in cities?
May 01, 2019
Can India become a better place for women?
Apr 30, 2019
Are we being duped by the multi-level millionaires?
Apr 29, 2019
What is justice in the age of Trump?
Apr 26, 2019
What does Sri Lanka tell us about the future of Islamic State?
Apr 25, 2019
Can we save the planet and still keep our stuff?
Apr 24, 2019
Lyra McKee: what did she want us to know?
Apr 23, 2019
Why would your mattress spy on you?
Apr 18, 2019
Should you get sacked for posting what you believe?
Apr 17, 2019
What should we think about Julian Assange?
Apr 16, 2019
Why would you stab someone? Part 2
Apr 15, 2019
Are Extinction Rebellion the new Suffragettes?
Apr 12, 2019
Why is Korean spy cam porn everyone’s problem?
Apr 11, 2019
Would we have Brexit without the Tories?
Apr 10, 2019
How did a teenager become the UK’s biggest cyber criminal?
Apr 09, 2019
Did the financial crisis change banking?
Apr 08, 2019
Marc Maron: how did podcasts become mainstream?
Apr 05, 2019
What’s Chelsea doing about racism?
Apr 04, 2019
How dangerous are far right hipsters?
Apr 03, 2019
Would celebrities make better politicians?
Apr 02, 2019
True Crime: how ethical is it?
Apr 01, 2019
Has Brexit already changed me?
Mar 29, 2019
Can Grindr be kinder?
Mar 28, 2019
Is climate change the only thing making natural disasters worse?
Mar 27, 2019
Did one Russian mastermind this political chaos?
Mar 26, 2019
Dr. Evil: why is consent not enough?
Mar 25, 2019
What should you do when there’s a terrorist attack?
Mar 22, 2019
Should we say nice things about Bradford?
Mar 21, 2019
Why is the Pope worried about robots?
Mar 20, 2019
Should egg freezing be free?
Mar 19, 2019
Christchurch: how do you find the terrorists among the trolls?
Mar 18, 2019
Simon Amstell: how do you learn who you are?
Mar 15, 2019
Can anyone explain the chaos?
Mar 14, 2019
Save or spend: what should I do with my money?
Mar 13, 2019
What happens to Shamima Begum now?
Mar 12, 2019
Are the police still racist?
Mar 11, 2019
How can a town beat the extremists?
Mar 08, 2019
Can you tell if you live in a bubble?
Mar 07, 2019
Anti-vax: why do we believe medical conspiracies?
Mar 06, 2019
Huawei: is there a tech cold war?
Mar 05, 2019
Why would you stab someone?
Mar 04, 2019
Is it still ok to listen to Michael Jackson?
Mar 01, 2019
Why does Kashmir matter to people here?
Feb 28, 2019
Why are car companies now tech firms?
Feb 27, 2019
Where should we learn about sex?
Feb 26, 2019
Why does it matter if Jussie Smollett staged his own attack?
Feb 25, 2019
Grayson Perry: what are the liberal elite afraid of?
Feb 22, 2019
Who are the new drug barons?
Feb 21, 2019
Oscars: what do you really have to do to win?
Feb 20, 2019
What do we get wrong about female terrorists?
Feb 19, 2019
Is the Islamic State really defeated?
Feb 18, 2019
What’s it like to be attacked at a Trump rally?
Feb 15, 2019
Should we be more scientific about love?
Feb 14, 2019
Can we stop the insects from dying?
Feb 13, 2019
Is it ok to pay women to have more children?
Feb 12, 2019
Amazon blackmail: should we feel sorry for the world’s richest man?
Feb 11, 2019
Jewrovision: can young Jews celebrate their identity?
Feb 08, 2019
How bad is social media for my mental health?
Feb 07, 2019
Stansted 15: would they chain themselves to a plane again?
Feb 06, 2019
El Chapo: what’s the truth behind the legend?
Feb 05, 2019
Can one conviction end FGM in the UK?
Feb 04, 2019
How did normal get so weird?
Feb 01, 2019
What can one building tell us about Venezuela?
Jan 31, 2019
Apple: is the iPhone era over?
Jan 30, 2019
R.Kelly: is #metoo closing in on music?
Jan 29, 2019
Are we getting more allergic to food?
Jan 28, 2019
BTS: Who made Korea cool?
Jan 25, 2019
How do you walk away from your ultra-religious community?
Jan 24, 2019
Should the James Bulger story win an Oscar?
Jan 23, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez: the first millennial political icon?
Jan 22, 2019
Blue Monday: how bad is it really?
Jan 21, 2019
Jon Ronson: what does porn tell us about hypocrisy?
Jan 18, 2019
How can one woman change the law?
Jan 17, 2019
Who should decide what sex you are?
Jan 16, 2019
Brexit: is it just embarrassing now?
Jan 15, 2019
Andy Murray: more than a champion?
Jan 14, 2019
Nish Kumar: is the news still funny?
Jan 11, 2019
Will I never need a car?
Jan 10, 2019
What happens when a paedophile hunter catches your dad?
Jan 09, 2019
The Bystander Effect: are we all guilty?
Jan 08, 2019
Kevin Spacey: what happens when #MeToo goes to court?
Jan 07, 2019
Bird Box: just how big is Netflix?
Jan 04, 2019
Peter Frankopan: who rules the world in 2019?
Jan 03, 2019
The Slumflower: how can we be better in 2019?
Jan 02, 2019
Beyond Today’s People of the Year
Dec 21, 2018
Should we talk more about grief?
Dec 20, 2018
Why are American spies so scared of China?
Dec 19, 2018
What’s the real impact of the ethnic pay gap?
Dec 18, 2018
Is the extreme right the new terror threat?
Dec 17, 2018
Laura Kuenssberg: will politics stop for Christmas?
Dec 14, 2018
Porn bans: who decides what we see?
Dec 13, 2018
Mental health: why are young people getting lost in the system?
Dec 12, 2018
Do we have a problem with successful black men?
Dec 11, 2018
Brexit: will it ever be over?
Dec 10, 2018
Where is Dubai’s missing Princess?
Dec 07, 2018
Why risk your life to report a war that's ignored?
Dec 06, 2018
How will immigration change after Brexit?
Dec 05, 2018
Blackfishing: is it okay for white girls to look black?
Dec 04, 2018
Can Manchester mend the planet?
Dec 03, 2018
George the Poet: can stories change the world?
Nov 30, 2018
What’s wrong with designer babies?
Nov 29, 2018
What’s going on between Russia and Trump?
Nov 28, 2018
Dream job denied: how do you bounce back?
Nov 27, 2018
Who will face justice for the war in Syria?
Nov 26, 2018
Who is Michelle Obama?
Nov 23, 2018
What happens when we #travel for the gram?
Nov 22, 2018
How Saudi is my Uber?
Nov 21, 2018
Why are people so afraid of Universal Credit?
Nov 20, 2018
Is it ok to feel sorry for Theresa May?
Nov 19, 2018
Oobah Butler: should news amuse?
Nov 16, 2018
Who’s helping teachers with tough kids?
Nov 15, 2018
Does Facebook really care about fake news?
Nov 14, 2018
Will we notice when Brexit happens?
Nov 13, 2018
Can we believe brands who get political?
Nov 12, 2018
Stacey Dooley: Should the news have feelings?
Nov 09, 2018
Are we forgetting how to remember?
Nov 08, 2018
Is Trumpism here to stay?
Nov 07, 2018
Should misogyny be a hate crime?
Nov 06, 2018
How has #MeToo changed American politics?
Nov 05, 2018
Amol Rajan: who makes the news?
Nov 02, 2018
What’s up with WhatsApp?
Nov 01, 2018
What’s the real impact of middle class drug use?
Oct 31, 2018
Instagram famous: how dangerous can it be?
Oct 30, 2018
Do we have enough money now?
Oct 29, 2018
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Oct 26, 2018