Afghanistan's road to peace: Murder in Kabul
Last month, a team of assassins shot and killed two of Afghanistan’s most eminent women. The murder of the two Supreme Court judges is part of an assassination campaign targeting Kabul’s intellectual ...
15 Feb 202136min
The strange case of the spy in the bag: Is it time for a review?
A decade after an MI6 agent was found dead in a North Face holdall, the detective who led the inquiry wants a forensic case review.This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of T...
12 Feb 202133min
Inside Porton Down: Britain’s top secret laboratory
What goes on inside one of the most secure, secretive and at times controversial British institutions? The Times is the first newspaper to be allowed into some of the most secure laboratories at Porto...
11 Feb 202128min
Civil disobedience and the future of Myanmar's democracy
Protesters in Myanmar are demanding the release of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi who was arrested when the military seized power. How did this country become unstable so quickly and what's next for ...
10 Feb 202132min
The second impeachment: Trump on trial again
Today the Senate trial begins: Donald Trump is charged with ‘incitement of insurrection’ over the Capitol riot. After four controversial years in power, the former President's ability to hold office a...
9 Feb 202131min
GameStop: A very modern fable
The inside story of how the WallStreetBets forum on Reddit took on Wall Street, sending shares in the struggling retailer GameStop skyrocketing… until they crashed back to earth.Content warning: stron...
8 Feb 202127min
Brain trauma: The issue rugby can no longer ignore
As the annual Six Nations tournament gets underway this weekend, recent high profile lawsuits filed against rugby union’s governing bodies from ex-professionals have cast a shadow over the game. Is th...
6 Feb 202128min
How Brussels bungled the vaccine
Two weeks ago AstraZeneca shocked the EU by cutting its vaccine delivery by 60%. What went wrong, and why? And could the high drama that followed have a lasting political impact?This podcast was broug...
5 Feb 202129min
