The child abuse inquiry: What have we learned since Jimmy Savile?
Ten years ago, the Jimmy Savile affair shocked the nation, sparking a moral panic about child abuse and institutional cover ups. In response, the government launched a national inquiry in 2014. This w...
19 Okt 202232min
Can the new chancellor save the economy – and the PM?
The new chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, has announced plans to scrap “almost all” the tax cuts in last month’s mini-budget and curtail support for households with energy bills after April. After weeks of eco...
18 Okt 202231min
The Post Office scandal and the broken system that caused it
The second stage of the inquiry into the Post Office scandal begins this week, focusing on the computer system at the centre of the story. How much did the Post Office know about problems with its IT ...
17 Okt 202231min
Will China invade Taiwan?
China’s ruling Communist Party’s Congress begins on Sunday where Xi Jinping is expected to secure an unprecedented third term - effectively allowing him to stay in power for life. It comes at a time o...
14 Okt 202228min
Meet the Editors: Celebrating 200 years of The Sunday Times
This month the Sunday Times turns 200 years old. To mark the occasion, Times Radio’s John Pienaar has been speaking to the editors: Emma Tucker, who's edited the paper since 2020, and John Witherow, t...
12 Okt 202235min
Elon Musk (probably) buys Twitter
It’s been a long and twisting road: six months of ‘on again off again’, after Elon Musk made an offer to buy Twitter, only to back out a few months later. Two weeks before Musk and the social media co...
11 Okt 202223min
The real story of Colditz
It's a legend many of us have grown up with: a plucky group of British officers, finding themselves trapped in a heavily guarded POW camp during the Second World War, try every trick they can think of...
10 Okt 202233min
Putin's draft, sham referendums and the Ukrainian fight back
Vladimir Putin turns 70 today. In recent weeks, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has seen territorial losses, a shambolic partial mobilisation, sham referendums and threats of nuclear attacks. So what pos...
7 Okt 202228min
