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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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Is Labour about to win a local election landslide?
Councillors, mayors and police commissioners across England and Wales are facing voters this week. What’s at stake? Helen Pidd reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf resigns
On Monday, Scotland’s first minister Humza Yousaf announced his resignation. What does this mean for the Scottish National party? Severin Carrell and Libby Brooks report. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Have open marriages gone mainstream?
From therapy sessions to bookshelves, interest in non-monogamous relationships seem to be soaring. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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The US college protests and the crackdown on campuses
Police have arrested dozens of students across US universities this week after a crackdown on pro-Palestine protests on campuses. Erum Salam and Margaret Sullivan report from New York. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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What Ukraine needs to change the course of the war
Ukraine has been granted a multibillion-dollar lifeline in military aid. But it will need more than that to prevail in the conflict with Russia. Dan Sabbagh in Kyiv and Shaun Walker report. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner?
Keir Starmer’s deputy is facing questions over the sale of her former home. But do voters care? Gaby Hinsliff 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