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January 1 · 25 min
Missing in the Amazon: the ambush, episode four
The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, recalls the moment that he and others on the search team found Dom and Bruno’s belongings in a hidden area of flooded forest. The team finally discover what has happened to the men
Dec 31, 2025 · 35 min
Missing in the Amazon: the protector and the poacher, episode three
Bruno Pereira was considered one of the great Indigenous protectors of his generation. And this made him an enemy of a man called Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira, also known as Pelado. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, reports on the story of the two men and what happened when their paths collided
Dec 30, 2025 · 30 min
Missing in the Amazon: the journalist and the president, episode two
What took British journalist Dom Phillips from the club nights of the UK dance scene as editor of Mixmag to one of the most remote, and dangerous, corners of the Amazon rainforest?
Dec 29, 2025 · 26 min
Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance, episode one
Three years ago, British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Brazil’s remote Javari valley. The Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, Tom Phillips, investigates what happened in the first episode of a six-part investigative podcast series
Dec 29, 2025 · 49 min
Ashes Weekly: England bounce back in madcap Melbourne Test
Max Rushden is joined by Geoff Lemon, Barney Ronay and Ali Martin to discuss England’s first Test victory in Australia for nearly 15 years
Dec 28, 2025 · 1 hr 15 min
Gina: What does she want? – episode 7
A young Gina Rinehart read Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, a book that promotes the idea that people should strive to be their best industrial selves. In this episode, we explore how these values are playing out in Rinehart’s life today
Dec 27, 2025 · 1 hr 14 min
Gina: Mythmaking – episode 6
Gina Rinehart’s father, Lang Hancock, is known as a pioneer of the iron ore industry but few realise he started his mining career digging for blue asbestos. In this episode, we interrogate some of the stories her family chooses to celebrate – and others they don’t
Dec 26, 2025 · 18 min
Gina: The DNA request – update episode
In the last episode, we covered historical claims made over the years that Lang Hancock, Gina’s father, had two unacknowledged daughters with separate Indigenous women. Since then, the daughter of Sella Robinson, one of the Indigenous women who claimed to be Hancock’s daughter, has decided to speak publicly for the first time
Dec 25, 2025 · 1 hr 12 min
Gina: The portrait – episode 5
It’s the portrait of Gina Rinehart that launched 1,000 memes, went viral globally and became Australia’s Mona Lisa. But it’s also a symbol of how wealth intersects with other areas of life, including art and sport. How does Rinehart use her money to control her image – and what would she rather you don’t see? This episode of Gina is about power and control, and the colonial history of Australia. It contains references to outdated offensive language and events that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Is
Dec 24, 2025 · 45 min
Gina: The first-born son – episode 4
John Hancock explains how his relationship with his mother, Gina Rinehart, fell apart and discusses a high-stakes legal case that could threaten the foundations of her empire
Dec 23, 2025 · 1 hr 9 min
Gina: Love and money – episode 3
Gina Rinehart has been Australia’s richest person for the past six years in a row. In the third episode of Gina, we unpack the bitter rivalries, court battles and family conflicts behind the Hancock fortune
Dec 23, 2025 · 53 min
Ashes Weekly: how Australia won the Ashes in 11 days
Max Rushden is joined by Geoff Lemon, Barney Ronay and Ali Martin to discuss the Adelaide Test – leaving England with a lot of questions about how it all went so wrong
Dec 22, 2025 · 57 min
Gina: Like father, like daughter – episode 2
In the second episode of Gina, senior correspondent Sarah Martin explores how Rinehart, like her father, Lang Hancock, before her, uses wealth and power to influence politics
Dec 21, 2025 · 48 min
Gina: Becoming Mrs Rinehart – episode 1
In the first episode of Gina, senior correspondent Sarah Martin explores the impact Rinehart could have on Australian politics, her past and how her unique childhood under the influence of Lang Hancock shaped her
Dec 19, 2025 · 28 min
Trump in the White House: is it time to call it corruption?
Jonathan Freedland is joined by the anthropologist Prof Janine Wedel as they wade through the most egregious allegations of corruption from Trump’s first year in office
Dec 18, 2025 · 21 min
The free birth influencers radicalising women around the world
Investigations correspondent Sirin Kale speaks to Reged Ahmad about why medical experts are warning about the dangers of the Free Birth Society, a multimillion-dollar business that promotes the idea of women giving birth with no medical assistance
Dec 17, 2025 · 14 min
The Bondi attack suspects and what we know so far
Justice and courts reporter Nino Bucci speaks to Reged Ahmad about what we know about the alleged gunmen
Dec 16, 2025 · 21 min
A moment of reckoning for Australia's gun laws
Investigations reporter Ariel Bogle and political editor Tom McIlroy speak to Reged Ahmad about the data showing Sydney has a ‘frightening concentration’ of gun ownership and why the pressure is on the PM to do more to make the Jewish community feel safe
Dec 16, 2025 · 40 min
Ashes Weekly: Can Australia clinch the series in Adelaide?
Max Rushden is joined by Geoff Lemon, Ali Martin and Taha Hashim to preview the third Test in Adelaide. Do England rip up their Bazball gameplan or double down against Australia?
Dec 15, 2025 · 17 min
Shock, grief and political reaction: Bondi terror attack aftermath
Ben Doherty speaks to Reged Ahmad about what we now know about the alleged gunmen, the grief and fear expressed by the Jewish community and the prime minister’s promise to examine Australia’s gun laws