Today in Focus

A podcast by The Guardian

1594 Episodes

  1. Inside the prisoner exchange that set an American journalist free

    Published: 6/08/2024
  2. A death at work in the age of extreme heat

    Published: 5/08/2024
  3. How two assassinations left the Middle East on the edge

    Published: 2/08/2024
  4. How Southport’s horror and grief was hijacked by the far right

    Published: 1/08/2024
  5. Rachel Reeves and the £22bn black hole

    Published: 31/07/2024
  6. The sisters Saudi Arabia tried to silence

    Published: 30/07/2024
  7. Why Spain wants tourists to go home

    Published: 29/07/2024
  8. The mother who forgave her daughters’ killer – but not the police

    Published: 26/07/2024
  9. Team GB’s plan for Paris? Air con, ice vests and baristas

    Published: 25/07/2024
  10. In southern Lebanon on the brink of war

    Published: 24/07/2024
  11. Mehdi Hasan on Kamala Harris vs Donald Trump

    Published: 23/07/2024
  12. President Biden steps aside

    Published: 21/07/2024
  13. The ‘brat’ summer takeover

    Published: 19/07/2024
  14. Dodging the draft: one Ukrainian man’s story

    Published: 18/07/2024
  15. The king’s speech: how radical will Labour be?

    Published: 17/07/2024
  16. Has the attempt to kill Trump handed him the election?

    Published: 16/07/2024
  17. Inside the biggest art fraud in US history

    Published: 15/07/2024
  18. The attempted assassination of Donald Trump – Politics Weekly America

    Published: 14/07/2024
  19. Euro 2024: is it coming home?

    Published: 12/07/2024
  20. The Conservative party: rows, resignations … and a tilt right?

    Published: 11/07/2024

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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. The podcast is a topical, deep dive, explainer on a topic or story in the news, covering: politics, climate change, current affairs, investigations, leaks, scandals involving the royals and interviews. It might cover topics such as: politics and current affairs in the United States of America - Donald Trump, the US presidential election 2024, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, the White House, the GOP, the Republicans and the Republican Party, the Democrats and the Democratic Party; current affairs including Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, Gaza, Russia, Bangladesh, HS2, the police, AI, information technology and the royal family - including King Charles III and Prince Harry; UK politics including UK election 24, Parliament, Labour, the Conservative Party, the Liberal Democrats, Reform UK, Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer; GB, Scotland, England and Ireland news, arts and culture, the environment, green issues, the climate emergency and global warming. Today in Focus features journalists such as: Aditya Chakrabortty, Alexis Petridis, Andrew Roth, Emma Graham-Harrison, George Monbiot, John Crace, John Harris, Jonathan Freedland, Kiran Stacey, Larry Elliott, Luke Harding, Marina Hyde, Nesrine Malik, Owen Jones, Peter Walker, Pippa Crerar, Polly Toynbee, Shaun Walker, Simon Hattenstone and Zoe Williams.

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