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Today in Focus
Hosted by Michael Safi and Helen Pidd, Today in Focus brings you closer to Guardian journalism. Combining personal storytelling with insightful analysis, this podcast takes you behind the headlines for a deeper understanding of the news, every weekday. Today in Focus features journalists such as: Kiran Stacey, Pippa Crerar, Alex Hern, Peter Walker, Luke Harding, Andrew Roth, Shaun Walker and Jim Waterson. The podcast is a topical, deep dive, explainer on a story in the news, covering: current affairs, politics, investigations, leaks, and scandals. It might cover, for example, topics such as: the environment, green issues, climate change, the climate emergency and global warming; American politics including: Biden, Trump, the White House, the GOP, the Republicans and the Republican Party, the Democrats and the Democratic Party; UK politics including: parliament, Labour, the Conservative party, the Liberal Democrats, Rishi Sunak, and Keir Starmer; culture; the royals and the royal family, including King Charles III; HS2; the police; Ukraine; Russia; and Bangladesh
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Episoder
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A win for Julian Assange and a loss for press freedom?
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Election Extra: Where are voters getting their news?
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McSweeney and Gray: the powers behind Keir Starmer
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Election Extra: Farage doubles down
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New towns and old ideas: Labour’s housing plan
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Election Extra: hope (within reason)
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Has Clacton fallen for Nigel Farage?
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Election Extra: All bets are off
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The Lib Dems’ surprising strategy to breach the blue wall
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Election Extra: inflation on target and the SNP manifesto
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Germans are divided. Can Euro 2024 unite them?
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Election Extra: Labour heading for a landslide
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The British judges ruling on the law in authoritarian Hong Kong
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Election Extra: Farage’s five-year plan
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The economy and Labour’s post-election dilemma
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Election Extra: Starmer and the Corbyn question
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The phone-free, 12-hour school-day experiment
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Election Extra: Labour’s plan
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Labour takes on the SNP in Scotland
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Election Extra: damage limitation
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Election 2024’s battleground: your family WhatsApp group
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Election Extra: the Tory manifesto
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How a far-right push in Europe triggered a shock election in France
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Election Extra: Farage rules out pact with Tories
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Magic Dave: David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out – part 2
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Magic Dave: David Copperfield’s alleged victims speak out – part 1
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Election Extra: Sunak’s D-day disaster
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The Israeli protesters trying to stop food aid getting to Gaza
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Election Extra: New Frank Hester allegations
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From child refugee to Guardian reporter: one journalist’s extraordinary story – podcast
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Election Extra: Sunak’s £2,000 ‘lie’
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Donald Trump is now a convicted criminal. Do voters care?
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Election Extra: Sunak and Starmer debate preview
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Has there been a purge of the left wing of the Labour party?
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Election Extra: Nigel Farage is back
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How to live to 100
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Trump is guilty on all counts. So what happens next?
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Exposing Israel’s secret ‘war’ on the ICC
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How an Indian state became a testing ground for Hindu nationalism
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Why is Sunak’s election campaign so chaotic?
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A journey on weight-loss drug Ozempic
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Damien Hirst and the dates that don’t add up
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What should kids be taught about sex and relationships?
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Rishi Sunak’s big election gamble
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Inside Kharkiv as Russia advances
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Could Netanyahu really be arrested for war crimes?
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
The rightwing Christian group and the battle over end-of-life care
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The children of the contaminated blood scandal
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
What keeps the world’s top climate scientists up at night?
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