Blackout: Coal, corruption and cyanide
South Africa was once a symbol of hope. Now the country experiences regular blackouts. This is the story of how the lights went out in Mandela’s country – and how criminal gangs and flawed political l...
9 Touko 202344min
Londongrad: Iran’s Hit Squads
Towards the end of last year the Director General of MI5, Ken McCallum, warned that the security services knew of at least ten attempts to kidnap or kill UK-based enemies of the regime in Iran. That n...
2 Touko 202335min
Rogue Lawyer: Power, money and a scandal at a London law firm
In 2014, a Jordanian man was imprisoned in a prison in Ras Al Khaimah, the northernmost Emirate in the UAE. He alleges he has been illegally detained and threatened. And the man he blames for this is ...
25 Huhti 202349min
Yesterday's Men: The Brexit hardliners' last stand
The European Research Group was once the most consequential faction in the Conservative party, playing a central role in bringing down former prime minister Theresa May and installing Boris Johnson in...
18 Huhti 202336min
Ignition: The quest for nuclear fusion
In the early hours of the morning of the 5 December 2022, a shot – a pulse – was fired that could save the world. It was a shot that achieved what fusion scientists had been seeking for more than half...
11 Huhti 202332min
Safe country: A death, and a deal, in Rwanda
John Williams Ntwali, one of the last critical journalists in Rwanda, died in suspicious circumstances just before Suella Braverman, the British home secretary, flew in to Kigali to sell the country a...
4 Huhti 202338min
Boris Johnson: The six million pound man episode 4
Boris Johnson seems incapable of living within his means – but talented beyond measure at finding people to help him live beyond them. So just who is funding the ex PM? This is the brand of Boris John...
30 Maalis 202319min
Boris Johnson: The six million pound man episode 3
Boris Johnson seems incapable of living within his means – but talented beyond measure at finding people to help him live beyond them. So just who is funding the ex PM? And how does he get to all his ...
29 Maalis 202323min
