Today in Focus
Hosted by Anushka Asthana and Rachel Humphreys, 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
A radical way to teach contested history
Helen Pidd visits Lancaster Royal grammar school to see the work of Parallel Histories, an education...
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Helen Pidd speaks to her former lodger, Yasser, a Syrian refugee contemplating moving back home. Help...
EscucharCan a steel town survive if its furnaces are turned off?
Port Talbot in Wales is defined by its huge steelworks. But in January Tata Steel announced it was ending...
EscucharThe prince and the ‘spy’
Prince Andrew is in trouble again, this time for meeting a businessman who has denied spying for China....
EscucharThe reformed jihadi? Al-Jolani, the new most powerful man in Syria
International security correspondent Jason Burke explores the life of Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed...
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Guardian US business editor Dominic Rushe explains why the president-elect wants to impose tariffs on...
EscucharRevisited: Have open marriages gone mainstream?
From therapy sessions to bookshelves, interest in non-monogamous relationships seem to be soaring Because...
EscucharRevisited: The Unabomber and his ongoing influence
Ted Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three...
EscucharThe town that fears losing its high street to climate change
Flooding in Tenbury Wells used to be a once in a generation event, now it’s happening increasingly...
EscucharInside Damascus after the fall of Bashar al-Assad
Foreign correspondent William Christou travels to Damascus, hours after Syria’s decades-long dictator...
EscucharHow Trump’s victory sparked a crypto boom
Guardian US tech editor, Blake Montgomery, explains what the US president-elect’s embrace of the cryptocurrency...
EscucharRevisited: The Israeli negotiator who talks to Hamas
Gershon Baskin on his experience as a hostage negotiator in the Israel-Palestine conflict Because of...
EscucharRevisited: The chilling policy to cut Greenland’s high birth rate
In the 1960s the birthrate in Greenland was one of the highest in the world. Then it plunged. Decades...
EscucharThe Syrian civil war and a stunning reversal for the Assad regime
Foreign correspondent Ruth Michaelson explains how President Bashar al-Assad’s government lost Aleppo,...
EscucharWhy Joe Biden pardoned his son
Hunter Biden was awaiting sentencing for gun and tax offences when, suddenly, his father pardoned him....
EscucharNew Zealand: the fight to protect M?ori rights
In what could be the biggest protest march in New Zealand’s history, 42,000 people took to the roads...
EscucharLebanon: a fragile ceasefire in a shattered nation
After two months of total war and terrible destruction, an uneasy peace has fallen on Lebanon. Will...
EscucharAssisted dying: a historic vote comes to parliament
Deputy political editor Jessica Elgot explains how the assisted dying bill came to the House of Commons...
EscucharThe rise of ketamine addiction in the UK
Journalist Elle Hunt and recovered addict Jack Curran talk about the rise of ketamine use in Britain...
EscucharThe Israeli settlers preparing to move to Gaza
While Palestinians are fleeing the war, one group of Israelis are planning for beachfront homes on the...
EscucharA mystery in Finnish Lapland, and what it means for the climate crisis
Biodiversity and environment reporter Patrick Greenfield travels to Finnish Lapland to investigate the...
EscucharNigel Farage and his ‘historic mission’: on the ground with Reform UK
Today in Focus presenter Helen Pidd goes out on the road – to Birmingham, Stalybridge and Clacton...
EscucharAn arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu – Today in Focus Extra
The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, his former...
EscucharWhat’s behind the escalating situation in Ukraine?
From long-range missiles being launched to North Korean troops being drafted in, Dan Sabbagh looks at...
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