The Interpreter (Pt 2): Escape from Kabul
Yesterday we listened back to our episode from August about an Afghan interpreter, Ahmadzai, whose life hung in the balance as the Taliban regained power.Today: what happened next.This podcast was bro...
15 Dec 202131min
The Interpreter (Pt 1): Hunted by the Taliban
As we come to the end of 2021, we're revisiting some of the biggest stories of the year.Today, we look back to the moment the Taliban regained power in Afghanistan – as one former interpreter's life h...
14 Dec 202131min
How Pentecostalism is taking over the world
From Brazil to South Korea, Justin Bieber to Bukayo Saka, Pentecostal Christianity is suddenly everywhere. By 2050, the movement is predicted to have a billion believers. In America, Pentecostals were...
13 Dec 202128min
The little Somerset village taking on climate change
It's just a tiny collection of houses and a church. But could Steart in Somerset have found a pioneering solution for carbon capture? In partnership with the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, the village has...
10 Dec 202128min
The best-selling author and the man wrongly convicted of her rape
In 1981, Alice Sebold gave evidence that sent a man she believed raped her to prison for 16 years. She wrote about her ordeal which took place in Syracuse, New York, and the subsequent trial in her me...
9 Dec 202128min
The case of Peng Shuai and the calls for an Olympic boycott
This week the USA and Australia announced diplomatic boycotts of next year's Winter Olympics which are to be held in China. The announcements come at a time when the disappearance of China's top tenni...
8 Dec 202131min
What happens to Afghanistan's female judges?
For years, Afghanistan’s female judges worked at the highest levels of the judiciary, sentencing members of the Taliban, Isis and Al-Qaeda. Since the Taliban swept to power this summer, they’ve been i...
7 Dec 202129min
The Prussian prince, the MI6 spy and the plot to kill Hitler
In the summer of 1944, some of Adolf Hitler's most trusted senior officers narrowly failed in their attempt to assassinate him. But was that the whole story? A recently unearthed file reveals Britain ...
6 Dec 202130min
