Today in Focus The Guardian
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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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Liz Truss and her plan to ‘save the west’
Liz Truss is back – kind of. The former PM of just 49 days has published a book, Ten Years to Save the West. The Guardian’s political correspondent Eleni Courea and breaking news correspondent Martin Pengelly discuss her seeming lack of regret. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Is the Middle East on the brink?
After Iran launched an attack on Israel, is the region heading for all-out war? Emma Graham-Harrison reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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How Swiss women won a landmark climate case for Europe
Last week a group of older women successfully challenged the Swiss government’s climate policies at the European court of human rights. Isabella Kaminski reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Carers scandal: why are so many being prosecuted by the UK government?
George Henderson was convicted of fraud and had to repay £19,500 in carer’s allowance years after ticking the wrong box on the form. He is not alone. The Guardian’s social policy editor, Patrick Butler, looks at why thousands are facing prosecution over innocent mistakes. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Stormy Daniels, Donald Trump, and the start of the hush money trial
Hugo Lowell talks through the law and the politics of a case starting this Monday against Donald Trump – the first ever criminal trial of a former or sitting US president. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Profits over pipes: who should own our water?
Thames Water owes hundreds of millions of pounds in debt, and the UK government is concerned about its potential collapse. Helena Horton reports. 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