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1,388 episodes
Updated June 19

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Jan 26, 2022 · 7 min
Ep 268: A $3m mistake?
An anonymous crypto group thought they bought the rights to Dune. They were wrong.
Jan 25, 2022 · 7 min
Ep 267: The letter
Every year Larry Fink, one of the biggest names in finance, writes a letter to the business world. Why has it become one of the most anticipated events in the calendar?
Jan 24, 2022 · 5 min
Ep 266: Mikaela v Petra
The most exciting sporting rivalry you’ve probably never heard of.
Jan 21, 2022 · 7 min
Ep 265: A risky game
What does it do to a politician, to be caught lying to parliament?
Jan 20, 2022 · 7 min
Ep 264: Virginia
Virginia Giuffre is Prince Andrew's accuser. She's fought some of the most powerful people in the world - and, amazingly, she's won.
Jan 19, 2022 · 7 min
Ep 263: Stop and search on steroids
What are Serious Violence Reduction Orders, and why are they controversial?
Jan 18, 2022 · 7 min
Ep 262: Boris Johnson breaks another Covid rule
It isn't just parties at Downing St where the Prime Minister broke his own rules. He did it over his second home as well.
Jan 17, 2022 · 4 min
Ep 261: Hunting assassins in Haiti
Who orchestrated the killing of the country's president? Suspicion is now falling on the country's prime minister.
Jan 14, 2022 · 6 min
Ep 260: Partygate and Dominic Cummings
When Dominic Cummings was driven out of Number 10 at the end of 2020, many thought the days of the “Westminster protagonist” were over. Then came partygate.
Jan 13, 2022 · 8 min
Ep 259: The most expensive drug in the world
Zolgensma is a life-saving drug but it costs more than a million and a half pounds per patient. Who decides if the NHS can afford it?
Jan 12, 2022 · 7 min
Ep 258: The family which captured a country
The Indian businessmen, the Gupta brothers, became enormously influential in South Africa. A new report says they effectively captured the country.
Jan 11, 2022 · 6 min
Ep 257: An old row about a new way of policing drugs
Lewisham in south east London is considering a softer approach to young people caught with drugs. Is the rest of the UK ready to endorse it?
Jan 10, 2022 · 6 min
Ep 256: A Kazakh uprising
An anti-government movement is growing in Kazakhstan. Why are Russian soldiers the ones crushing it?
Jan 7, 2022 · 7 min
Ep 255: The rise of the incels
Incels - men who are 'involuntarily celibate' and blame women - are growing in numbers and getting angrier and more misogynistic. A man who goes by the name Alexander Ash is promoting their rise.
Jan 6, 2022 · 8 min
Ep 254: Prince Andrew's potential problem
Can Prince Andrew strike out a case against him by a woman who accuses him of abusing her when she was a minor?
Jan 5, 2022 · 5 min
Ep 253: Is Plan B working?
The Omicron variant of Covid is surging across the UK, but the government seems determined not to go beyond its famous "Plan B" - the restrictions we're living with now.
Jan 4, 2022 · 6 min
Ep 252: 2022: Predictions
Today, we're doing something a little different. We're going to kick off the year by predicting a few big things we think will happen in 2022.
Dec 31, 2021 · 7 min
Ep 251: The dissident journalist
In May, Belarus forced a plane to land because it had an exiled journalist on board. It created an international diplomatic crisis. Listen to Pariah: https://podfollow.com/1564715288
Dec 30, 2021 · 7 min
Ep 250: China's Mr Climate
Some people said COP26, the global climate conference, was doomed because China’s president didn't show up. Then along came an unusually capable civil servant known as ‘the panda’.
Dec 29, 2021 · 7 min
Ep 249: The Facebook whistleblower
Thanks to revelations from one former Facebook insider, 2021 was a year of reckoning for the tech giant. Subscribe to the Sensemaker podcast: https://podfollow.com/1548929040