Today in Focus

A podcast by The Guardian

1600 Episodes

  1. Why a Belarusian Olympic sprinter refused to fly home

    Published: 5/08/2021
  2. How Simone Biles changed gymnastics – on and off the mat

    Published: 4/08/2021
  3. Are plans to change the Official Secrets Act a threat to journalism?

    Published: 3/08/2021
  4. Why did Unesco drop Liverpool from its heritage list?

    Published: 2/08/2021
  5. How we all got hooked on caffeine

    Published: 30/07/2021
  6. The lobbying push that killed off a fight to save the Great Barrier Reef

    Published: 29/07/2021
  7. The Republican backlash in Joe Biden’s America

    Published: 28/07/2021
  8. The pandemic enters a new phase

    Published: 27/07/2021
  9. The authority gap: why women still aren’t taken seriously

    Published: 26/07/2021
  10. The Pegasus project part 5: the fightback against private spyware begins

    Published: 23/07/2021
  11. The Pegasus Project part 4: runaway princesses and the UK connection

    Published: 22/07/2021
  12. The Pegasus Project part 3: cartels, corruption and cyber-weapons

    Published: 21/07/2021
  13. The Pegasus project part 2: cat and mouse

    Published: 20/07/2021
  14. The Pegasus project part 1: an invitation to Paris

    Published: 19/07/2021
  15. Marina Hyde on five years of watching the political circus

    Published: 16/07/2021
  16. Inside the mind of an Olympic athlete one week before the games

    Published: 15/07/2021
  17. The heatwave forcing America to confront climate reality

    Published: 14/07/2021
  18. Is it possible to make the internet safe for children? – podcast

    Published: 13/07/2021
  19. The people searching for missing family members during the pandemic – podcast

    Published: 12/07/2021
  20. The Indigenous children who died at Canada’s residential schools

    Published: 9/07/2021

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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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