The fight for the Amazon: The long, bloody history to save the forest
When journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Perreira were murdered while on a fact finding trip in the Amazon, it highlighted the threats to those working to protect the forest from explo...
23 Jun 202226min
The beginning of the end for Ireland's billionaire crime family?
For almost two decades the Kinahans have operated one of the most powerful criminal organisations in the world. Now, they’ve been named as some of America’s “most wanted” and people who've been associ...
22 Jun 202227min
Is the Pope planning to quit?
The ailing pontiff has prompted speculation that he will resign with a planned visit to the tomb of a 13th-century pope who quit after five months.Meanwhile, his remarks about foes plotting his replac...
21 Jun 202227min
One-way ticket to Rwanda: How the government’s asylum plan was put on ice
The government’s flagship immigration policy has been put on pause, following an intervention from the European Court of Human Rights. How was the first asylum flight to Rwanda halted? And what will h...
20 Jun 202229min
The biggest rail strike in 30 years
Next week, much of the country's rail system will grind to a halt, as more than 40,000 rail workers join a national walkout. It's the biggest rail strike since 1989. So why are they striking? And how ...
17 Jun 202232min
Monkeypox: What you need to know
Monkeypox cases in the UK are now in the hundreds, and 1,600 cases have been reported around the world in recent weeks. What do we know about it and how it spreads? And can it be contained? This podca...
16 Jun 202223min
What's wrong with our schools and how to reinvent them
Parents, teachers, students and experts alike say that the UK’s education system desperately needs reform. The Times Education Commission has spent the past year trying to figure out how to fix it. To...
15 Jun 202235min
The Grenfell fire, five years on (Pt 2): The cladding scandal
When a fire broke out at Grenfell Tower in west London in 2017, it led to the deaths of 72 people – and a search for answers. Five years on, what have we learned from the inquiry about the companies w...
14 Jun 202243min
