1083 Episodes

  1. Best of 2025 … so far: an English gentleman, a crooked lawyer: the secrets of Stephen David Jones

    Published: 22/08/2025

  2. Best of 2025 … so far: Kahane’s ghost: how a long-dead extremist rabbi continues to haunt Israel’s politics

    Published: 20/08/2025

  3. Starmer v Starmer: why is the former human rights lawyer so cautious about defending human rights?

    Published: 18/08/2025

  4. Best of 2025 … so far: The savage suburbia of Helen Garner: ‘I wanted to dong Martin Amis with a bat’

    Published: 15/08/2025

  5. Best of 2025 … so far: ‘I am not who you think I am’: how a deep-cover KGB spy recruited his own son

    Published: 13/08/2025

  6. How Pakistan fell in love with sushi

    Published: 11/08/2025

  7. Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The ghosts are everywhere’: can the British Museum survive its omni-crisis?

    Published: 8/08/2025

  8. Best of 2025 … so far: the great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?

    Published: 6/08/2025

  9. The Shining: my trip to the G7 horror show with Emmanuel Macron

    Published: 4/08/2025

  10. Are we witnessing the death of international law?

    Published: 1/08/2025

  11. From the archive: Bicycle graveyards: why do so many bikes end up underwater?

    Published: 30/07/2025

  12. Poison in the water: the town with the world’s worst case of forever chemicals contamination

    Published: 28/07/2025

  13. ‘A relentless, destructive energy’: inside the trial of Constance Marten and Mark Gordon

    Published: 25/07/2025

  14. From the archive: how two BBC journalists risked their jobs to reveal the truth about Jimmy Savile

    Published: 23/07/2025

  15. The curse of Toumaï: an ancient skull, a disputed femur and a bitter feud over humanity’s origins

    Published: 21/07/2025

  16. Horse racing and erotica: how I survived the fickle world of freelance writing

    Published: 18/07/2025

  17. From the archive: The sludge king: how one man turned an industrial wasteland into his own El Dorado

    Published: 16/07/2025

  18. Sold to the Trump family: one of the last undeveloped islands in the Mediterranean

    Published: 14/07/2025

  19. How does woke start winning again?

    Published: 11/07/2025

  20. From the archive: The death of the department store

    Published: 9/07/2025

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