Daily – ARMANDO IANNUCCI: “At least Malcolm Tucker had a plan”
Will it take a satirist to fix Britain’s busted politics? Armando Iannucci – writer of The Thick Of It, The Day Today and Veep – is looking for emergency fixes in the new podcast series Westminster Re...
15 Aug 202133min
Daily: TURKEY AND GREECE – Bad Blood and Lots Of It, with author Defne Suman
Aegean neighbours Greece and Turkey have been rivals for centuries – and both countries are prone to forgetting the “unfortunate episodes” in their relations with the other. Can they ever get past the...
12 Aug 202128min
Daily: LOST IN THE SUPERMARKET – Britain’s fragile food supply
For many of us, the warm light of the fridge was one of the few consolations of lockdown. But now we’re living in a harsh new reality of intermittently empty supermarket shelves and farms that are str...
11 Aug 202127min
Bored of Boris? – The Tory Party starts to lose patience
As pandemic politics start to ebb away, Johnson’s ratings are down among the Tory faithful and his MPs are growing restive. Is this a time to pick a fight with Rishi Sunak? Plus, will Apple’s photo-sc...
10 Aug 202148min
THIS WORLD’S ON FIRE – Start Your Week with Alex Andreou
This week’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report could signal our last chance to stop the global climate running out of control. Will the world take it? Plus: vaccine passports continue to...
9 Aug 202127min
Daily: THE WEIRDEST OLYMPICS EVER with FT Sport Editor Murad Ahmed
Recorded at 11pm on Saturday night and already our GB medals toll is out of date… At the end of the most controversial Olympics in almost a century, Financial Times Sports Editor MURAD AHMED calls us ...
8 Aug 202129min
Daily: PAUL MASON on how to stop fascism
From Modi’s India to Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Erdogan’s Turkey, the far right is on the rise around the world. Are we really on the brink of resurgent fascism? And if so, how do we fight it? Political j...
5 Aug 202130min
Daily: CATCH A DRAGON BY ITS TAIL – China’s money, Britain’s folly
Cameron and Osborne’s “Golden Era” of cosying up to China turned out to be a golden error, as Beijing dug deep into British life, politics, and technology. Investigative journalist Sam Dunning tells A...
4 Aug 202126min
