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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
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
The princess and the pictures
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
How an infamous ransomware gang found itself hacked
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
The Ministry of Defence’s multimillion pound Saudi defence deal
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Black Box: the hunt for ClothOff – the deepfake porn app
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Black Box: The connectionists
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Jeremy Hunt’s election year budget – podcast
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Gaza’s hunger crisis
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Why IVF is under attack in Alabama
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Is ill-health holding back the UK economy?
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Black Box: the collision
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How the cost of living changed the way we eat out
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The Conservative party’s problem with Islamophobia
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Saldo: Ukraine’s gangster governor – part 3
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Saldo: Ukraine’s gangster governor – part 2
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Saldo: Ukraine’s gangster governor – part 1
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
How a ceasefire vote led to two days of chaos in the Commons – podcast
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Is an uprising by Europe’s farmers sowing the seeds for the far right?
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Why the NHS needs Martha’s rule
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
The shocking death and extraordinary life of Alexei Navalny
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Deported and disgraced: the students wrongly accused of cheating
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Why is it becoming so hard to retire in the UK?
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Israel’s threat to Gaza’s last refuge
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
What on earth is going on in the Rochdale byelection?
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Is Biden too old to be president?
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Why does the UK lag behind on cancer care?
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Labour’s £28bn green policy U-turn
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Why the military are the real winners of Pakistan’s election
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Why is generation Z so divided on gender?
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
The murder of Brianna Ghey
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The disposable vape ban
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
The deal that could transform politics in Northern Ireland
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Is Britain fit to fight a war?
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
What’s gone wrong at Boeing?
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Will the ICJ ruling change anything in Gaza?
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
The mothers and wives of Russian soldiers daring to defy Putin
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Michelle Mone and the PPE Medpro investigation
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Why the UK needs to eliminate measles … again
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The terrifying, far-right ‘masterplan’ sparking protests across Germany
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
New Hampshire primary: the last chance to stop Trump?
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The Freedom theatre – and the fight for Palestinian culture
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
The race for the moon
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Cocaine, gangs and murder: Ecuador’s 10 days of terror
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
The Houthis and the Red Sea crisis
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Will South Africa’s genocide case against Israel succeed?
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
Reform UK: the party frightening the Tories from the fringes
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
The Chinese shadow over Taiwan’s election
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
A new law to exonerate Post Office victims
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
The UK government v junior doctors
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)
The release of Oscar Pistorius
![Today in Focus](https://podmestorage.blob.core.windows.net/podcast-images/E82CFE14687757940B8D95C4DB3DF5AE_small.jpg)