US election: A tale of two battlegrounds
As election day approaches, the campaigning in key battleground states has intensified. Florida and Pennsylvania are just two of a handful of states that could play a major role in deciding who will l...
27 Loka 202032min
Investigation: Inside Russia's disinformation war (Pt 2)
This podcast exposed a Russian fake news campaign designed to undermine and spread fear about the Oxford University coronavirus vaccine. Now we follow an intriguing trail which links this Russian disi...
26 Loka 202029min
Insight investigation: How elderly paid price of protecting NHS from Covid-19
While ministers delayed lockdown, soaring cases were putting immense pressure on hospitals. An Insight investigation shows officials devised a brutal ‘triage tool’ to keep the elderly and frail away.T...
25 Loka 202035min
Escaping slavery in modern Britain: Hadi's story
When Hadi took a trip to England, she only planned to stay for a couple of weeks. What eventuated was far more sinister: exploited by British traffickers, she was trapped as a domestic slave. This is ...
23 Loka 202027min
Classical music conductors: Overpaid, oversexed and over the hill?
The Times's chief music critic, Richard Morrison muses over whether a combination of the coronavirus, environmental concerns and the MeToo movement will be the end of the 'maestro' - the classical mus...
22 Loka 202026min
Inside Operation Venetic: Britain's biggest organised crime crackdown
While you and I were locked down in the middle of this year, the UK's National Crime Agency was frantically carrying out an unprecedented operation. By the time it was made public in July, Operation V...
21 Loka 202030min
Extremism in our prisons
A series of attacks by Islamists released from jail highlights the failure to turn them away from extremism. Today: the story of one inmate we know only as 'Jack' and how he was radicalised in a UK pr...
20 Loka 202027min
Westminster and a country in tiers
England's new tiered lockdown system has been in the making for months. How did we get here and what does it mean for the future?This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The...
19 Loka 202025min
