299 episodes
Today in Focus The Guardian
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4.6 • 182 Ratings
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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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Rishi Sunak staggers on – but for how long?
The prime minister is another MP down after Natalie Elphicke crossed the floor to join Labour. With the Conservatives trailing by 30 points after heavy local election losses, what options does Rishi Sunak now have? Guardian political correspondent Kiran Stacey tells Helen Pidd what these losses mean for the PM, and looks at what calculation Keir Starmer made in taking in a rightwing Tory. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Escaping Rafah: on the ground in Gaza’s last refuge
We hear from two Palestinians living in tents in the city of Rafah. As the threat of an Israeli invasion hangs over them, they decide whether to stay or leave. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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The London Bridge ‘hero’ who could go to prison for 99 years
In 2019, ex-offender Marc Conway helped hold down a knifeman who killed two people in a terror attack. But by doing so he risked being recalled to prison. Simon Hattenstone reports Marc Conway risked his life to stop the London Bridge terror attack. Why did he fear being sent to prison for it?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Non-doms are threatening to leave. Should they be convinced to stay?
Multi-millionaire Bassim Haidar says ending the non-dom tax status is a mistake. He plans to leave the UK and says other non-doms will do the same. Should the government change their mind?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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How do we protect teenagers from sextortion scams?
Murray Dowey, a 16-year-old from Dunblane, was targeted by a sextortion scammer in the hours before he took his own life. Now his parents are raising awareness of this increasingly prevalent crime. Libby Brooks reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Politics Weekly Westminster: local elections special
In the first of our Politics Weekly Westminster episodes, the Guardian’s political editor Pippa Crerar and political correspondent Kiran Stacey go over the big wins and losses from the local and mayoral elections. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Customer Reviews
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Such a great podcast, my daily listen here on the other side of the world
Listening down under
I love this podcast..great reporting, engaging topics and well presented. I listen everyday from New Zealand while waking the dog! Keep up the great work!
Today in Direction
Today in Focus, on the whole is a great magazine style audio podcast. Covering a wide range of issues from and including the decay of democracy in the UK and the great economic disaster that is Brexit, the rise of private companies employed to influence election results around the globe, inside Black Lives Matter movement to exposing the decades long use of police infiltration into political movements by imbedding undercover police inside communities.
It has even examined its own history and looked at the Guardian and its connection to Black Slavery and how the founders of the Guardian benefitted from Imported cotton and manufacturing.
All this would lead you to believe that the Guardian and its podcast Today in Focus present a balanced and informative news and current affairs podcast. On the most part they do and it is but on occasion, the interviewer will let you know what their personal feelings are about an interview subject, or someone which I don’t believe is necessary. Again on occasion, an interviewer will answer their own question by recapping, paraphrasing and interpreting what the interviewee has not necessarily said, once again not necessary.
Let the truth speak and the audience form their own conclusion. You don’t need to sell immorality, immorality will identify itself.
Sometimes it’s obvious that a story needs more than the obligatory 40 mins and a follow up show is required, budget restraints notwithstanding, I for one would like stories to be revisited.
However, generally and on the whole, Today in Focus is a great show that I look forward to and encourage others to listen to.
There’s no substitute for experience but youth, rather than wasted on the young travel in the same direction as experience.
Thanks for podcasting,
RiddlyTunes
Auckland NZ