“Your wheels are your legs”: The charity changing children’s lives
Not all wheelchairs are created equal… whether it’s colour, size, weight or power, wheelchairs can be built to fit the user’s needs. Which is where Whizz Kidz, one of this year’s Times and Sunday Time...
22 Dec 202322min
Does Gen Z have a problem with Israel?
Gen Z voters are ramping up the pressure on President Biden to tone down his support for Israel in its conflict with Hamas. According to a recent New York Times poll, their support for the Palestinian...
21 Dec 202328min
2023's best books: Victorian sex, apocalypse and Prince Harry
Our literary editors give us the lowdown on what they’ve been reading this last year - from steamy sex to the end of the world - and what should be on your Christmas gift list.This podcast was brought...
20 Dec 202326min
Sex work in Sierra Leone: A street child’s story
Two weeks after yet another attempted coup, veteran Times war correspondent Anthony Loyd returns to Sierra Leone, the West African country he first visited 26 years ago amid civil war. There he encoun...
19 Dec 202326min
How Italy’s hard-right claimed JRR Tolkien
This weekend, Rishi Sunak was in Rome meeting Italy's prime minister Giorgia Meloni. As well as being a fan of the British PM, she's also a devotee of one of the UK's most famous writers - author of T...
18 Dec 202324min
Investigation: How the tobacco industry has secretly bankrolled vaping
A Times investigation has found that tobacco companies have been engaged in a secret lobbying campaign to try and boost their e cigarette sales. They've bankrolled scientific papers playing down the r...
15 Dec 202326min
What happened to the boy who killed James Bulger
Jon Venables was ten years old when he and another boy tortured and killed two year old James Bulger. He’s now been refused parole on his imprisonment for a separate charge. So how did he end up here?...
14 Dec 202335min
Criminal or artist? The trial of the rapper Young Thug
He's one of the most popular rappers in America: Young Thug is facing up to 120 years in prison for allegedly being the head of a violent criminal gang. State prosecutors in Georgia are using lyrics f...
13 Dec 202326min
