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Today in Focus brings you closer to the Guardian's journalism. Our award-winning morning edition hosted by Helen Pidd, Nosheen Iqbal and Annie Kelly combines on-the-ground reporting, insightful analysis and personal testimony from the people at the heart of the stories that matter, to give you a deeper understanding of the world we live in. And to make sense of a rapidly-changing news cycle, our new evening edition 'The Latest' hosted by Lucy Hough, brings you up to speed on the big news story of the day in just 10 minutes. Available on YouTube and all podcast platforms.

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August 21 · 23 min
How to get back into reading books
Our specialist panel on which books may help you put your phone away and get reading again. With Charlotte Northedge, David Shariatmadari and Rebecca Liu
August 20 · 12 min
Why are Prince Harry and Meghan moving back to the UK? – The Latest
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are planning to return to live in Britain, six years after leaving for the US: a decision subject to intense media scrutiny
August 20 · 28 min
Drill Andy drill? Burnham’s North Sea dilemma
Helena Horton on why the government may decide to allow more oil and gas drilling in the North Sea
August 19 · 11 min
Will Andy Burnham get rough sleepers off streets by Christmas? – The Latest
The prime minister has announced a £442m plan to get rough sleepers off the streets by Christmas. Nosheen Iqbal speaks to social policy editor Patrick Butler
August 19 · 23 min
The people v the datacentre? The fight for Brick Lane
Annie Kelly heads to Brick Lane to hear from residents campaigning against a massive datacentre on one of London’s most famous streets
August 18 · 12 min
Russia threatens UK over supplying drones to Ukraine — The Latest
Russia has threatened the UK with ‘consequences’ after reports that British drones have been used by Ukraine to strike targets on Russia’s mainland for the first time. Annie Kelly speaks to senior international correspondent Luke Harding
August 18 · 30 min
A bestselling true crime author, and the crimes he’s accused of
Investigations correspondent Sirin Kale reports on the allegations of violence and sexual assault against author Christopher Berry-Dee
August 17 · 9 min
Can Trump’s peace plan for Gaza be saved? – The Latest
Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is on a diplomatic mission in the Middle East to meet Hamas officials and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, in an attempt to salvage a ceasefire in Gaza. Nosheen Iqbal speaks to global editor Devika Bhat
August 17 · 26 min
The super-producer who made an album from his hospital bed
James Ellis Ford talks about being diagnosed with leukaemia and how making music helped him through one of the hardest periods of his life
August 14 · 30 min
Prisons are full - who should be released early?
Former prison governor Judith Feline on the reality of our overcrowded prisons and Peter Walker on why it’s causing a headache for Andy Burnham
August 13 · 31 min
The 21 million women and girls the world forgot
Five years after the Taliban retook power, women inside the country explain how they have been silenced, while the Afghan journalist Zahra Joya asks why the world has looked away
August 12 · 30 min
Could Clacton bin off Nigel Farage?
Farage has taken a high risk gamble by resigning and forcing a byelection in his constituency. Nosheen Iqbal heads to Clacton to find out how voters feel
August 11 · 27 min
Why did Saudi Arabia just spend billions on a video games company?
Last week Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund and a group of investors spent $55 billion on Electronic Arts, the video games company behind the Sims, Madden NFL and Battlefield. Keith Stuart and George Osborn tell Annie Kelly why this soft-power move is worrying many in the industry
August 10 · 21 min
The gen Z investors
Are gen Z the most financially savvy generation of them all? With senior economics correspondent Richard Partington and influencer James Beckett
August 7 · 9 min
Could Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ be banned across the UK? – The Latest
With more than 7m pairs reportedly sold in 2025, Meta’s Ray-Ban smartglasses are fast becoming the world’s most popular new gadget. Critics have labelled them ‘pervert glasses’, with some pubs and restaurants around the UK banning the technology from their premises. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s deputy Opinion editor Kirsty Major
August 7 · 37 min
Plagiarism and a pig’s head: the rise and fall of Jason Arday
Jason Arday’s appointment as Cambridge’s youngest black professor made global headlines. Then the questions began to snowball
August 6 · 9 min
Why has Kemi Badenoch given a former neo-Nazi an advisory role? – The Latest
Joshua Bonehill-Paine, a former neo-Nazi activist, has been offered a role as an adviser to the Conservative party by Kemi Badenoch. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian political correspondent Ben Quinn
August 6 · 26 min
‘The guards just opened the door’: what happened in Ceuta?
How did more than 70,000 migrants manage to enter the Spanish enclave of Ceuta all at once … and what will be the fallout? With reporting from Javier Jennings Mozo and Jennifer Rankin
August 5 · 9 min
Russia exploits Ukraine’s air defence shortage in deadly attack on Kyiv - The Latest
At least 17 people were killed and more than 40 injured in another round of deadly Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Lucy Hough talks to the Guardian’s Russia affairs correspondent, Pjotr Sauer
August 5 · 22 min
The mystery of the missing president
Guardian reporters Eromo Egbejule and Giovanni Wanneh tell Annie Kelly how the country is managing without its leader, and why Cameroonians still have hope for the next chapter

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