How I stopped being a problem drinker
Like increasing numbers of Brits, columnist Robert Crampton had a guilty secret: he was drinking more, the older he got. Way more. In a brutally honest account, he reveals what finally led him to quit...
6 Jan 202327min
The spy who infiltrated the ‘New IRA’
Details have emerged in court about how an undercover MI5 agent managed to infiltrate and gather evidence on the political wing of the ‘New IRA’. Dennis McFadden’s work led to the arrest of a number o...
5 Jan 202327min
The new science of eating well
How should we eat? What should we eat?Author and epidemiologist Tim Spector says it’s time to ban the D word – ‘dieting’ – lose the calorie counting and enjoy food in a more integrated way. Tim Specto...
4 Jan 202331min
Ukraine and beyond: The world in 2023
After a period of global upheaval unlike any other in living memory, we look back at the year war came to Ukraine, and how its fallout has changed Europe and the world. We ask two of our most experien...
3 Jan 202344min
Best of 2022: Can an AI bot convince you that it's sentient?
Over the festive period, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2022.Google engineer Blake Lemoine brought an unusual concern to his company: he feared the AI language program he wa...
1 Jan 202332min
Best of 2022: The Falklands, 40 years on: A father and son’s story
In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2022.In April 1982, Captain Christopher Craig set sail with his crew on the frigate HMS Alacrity t...
31 Dec 202239min
Best of 2022: The cult of crypto: How $2 trillion went up in flames
In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2022.It promised a financial revolution - a liberation from money middlemen. But then the $3 trill...
30 Dec 202234min
Best of 2022: The real story of Colditz
In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2022.It's a legend many of us have grown up with: a plucky group of British officers, finding them...
29 Dec 202233min
