Defeating Russia’s Information War Machine – with Peter Pomerantsev
Putin has used digital disinformation against Ukraine and the West since long before the Russian invasion, undermining US and EU support for Kyiv by smearing Ukrainians as Nazis and denying Russia’s m...
20 Mar 202444min
Iran and the US – Inside the Shadow War
Iran – America’s arch-enemy and the Middle East’s malign “mini-Imperial power” – fans conflicts from Ukraine to Israel to Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon, and is said to be only weeks away from developing a n...
13 Mar 202443min
Ukraine two years on – Inside Ukraine’s defence.
Russia’s war on Ukraine two years on. This time: How is Ukraine’s defence of its territory holding up under Putin’s onslaught? How do Ukrainians see the Trump Right’s obstruction of $60bn of aid to Ky...
6 Mar 202433min
Ukraine two years on – Inside Russia’s state of terror
The first of two specials covering Russia’s war on Ukraine two years on. This time: Inside Russia. Avdiivka has fallen, Alexei Navalny is dead, and pro-Russia Republicans are starving Kyiv of ammuniti...
28 Feb 202448min
New Power in the Gulf – The rise of “MBZ”
From Cop28 to Manchester City to the attempted purchase of the Telegraph newspaper, the United Arab Emirates are suddenly flexing power and prestige across the Gulf. Behind it all is Sheikh Mohamed bi...
21 Feb 202438min
Trump vs NATO: Could Europe survive alone?
The fear that a re-elected Trump would pull the US out of NATO haunts European leaders. Now he says he’d actively encourage Putin to attack European countries who haven’t “paid their bills”. Could a s...
14 Feb 202437min
North Korea: Kim Jong Un’s journey to the edge
Could the belligerence of North Korea – enigma, dynastic dictatorship, nuclear-armed regional menace – be coming to a violent head? Leader Kim Jong Un has torn up his country’s long-cherished goal of ...
7 Feb 202434min
The world rearms – Panel special with Gavin Esler, Emma Beals and Oz Katerji
The world’s future is darkening. Ukraine’s defence is in peril, the Red Sea and Israel/Hamas conflicts threaten to join hands, the US is stationing nuclear weapons in England again, and even conscript...
31 Jan 202442min
