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1,388 episodes
Updated June 19

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May 14, 2021 · 6 min
Ep 88: Donald Trump - not president, still powerful
The sacking of a US politician this week shows that Donald Trump is still the biggest show in town in the Republican party
May 13, 2021 · 6 min
Ep 87: What counts as junk food?
The British government wants to ban junk food adverts. But who decides what's junk?
May 12, 2021 · 6 min
Ep. 86: Fist fights at 36,000 ft
There's been increase in brawls and bad behaviour on planes. What's fuelling the fury?
May 11, 2021 · 7 min
Ep 85: Keir Starmer mis-fires
The Labour leader tried to sack his deputy. It could hardly have gone worse for him.
May 11, 2021 · 5 min
Ep 84: Making a murderer
A child soldier grows up to commit terrible crimes. Was his childhood entirely to blame?
May 7, 2021 · 7 min
Ep 83: Caitlyn Jenner runs into trouble
Caitlyn Jenner, one of the most famous trans people in the world, is running to be governor of California. But mainstream politics and trans rights don't always sit well together.
May 6, 2021 · 5 min
Ep 82: Bollywood politics
Why one of Bollywood's biggest stars, Kangana Ranaut, has been removed from Twitter.
May 5, 2021 · 7 min
Ep 81: The oracle of Omaha
The richest 90-year-old on earth, Warren Buffett, has announced his plan to let someone else take over the company he runs. But he's not retiring just yet... 
May 4, 2021 · 5 min
Ep 80: A man in a van, fighting drugs
Peter Krykant is waging an unorthodox, possibly illegal, war against the terrible death toll from drugs in Scotland
May 3, 2021 · 7 min
Ep 79: Trump's keeper of the keys
The man who could hold the key to the investigation into Donald Trump’s finances.
Apr 29, 2021 · 6 min
Ep 77: Another vaccine breakthrough?
The man who has dedicated his life's work to fighting malaria may have finally cracked it.
Apr 28, 2021 · 7 min
Ep 76: A genocide, recognised
Why America's recognition of a genocide from a century ago is causing a diplomatic commotion.
Apr 27, 2021 · 7 min
Ep 75: India's Covid crisis
How much responsibility does India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, bear for the country's catastrophic coronavirus outbreak?
Apr 26, 2021 · 6 min
Ep 74: Victims of the Post Office
The Post Office said its computer system never made a mistake: if there was money missing, someone must have stolen it. A lot of sub-postmasters were wrongly sent to jail. .
Apr 23, 2021 · 6 min
Ep 73: Electric dreams in the USA
Joe Biden is pushing hard for action on climate change. Can he get America to drive electric?
Apr 22, 2021 · 5 min
Ep 72: A president killed in battle
The remarkable story of Chad's Idriss Déby, and what his death means for the fight against extremism.
Apr 21, 2021 · 7 min
Ep 71: China's war on fashion
How the high street retailer H&M got caught in the middle of a fierce argument over modern slavery.
Apr 20, 2021 · 7 min
Ep 70: A super controversy
How a new competition could change football forever… and why it’s about far more than just football.
Apr 19, 2021 · 6 min
Ep 69: Russia vs Ukraine, take 2
Seven years after Russia annexed Crimea, Russian forces are assembling on the border with Ukraine once again. So what does President Vladimir Putin want this time?
Apr 15, 2021 · 6 min
Ep 67: The lost (again) Leonardo.
The Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci is the most expensive painting ever sold at auction: $400m. After it was sold it vanished. But the arguments about it rage on.