Podcast Episodes

The decision facing Zelensky

American, Ukrainian and European negotiators met in Switzerland on Sunday to discuss a US-proposed peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was faced with a …

Published on 7 hours ago

Is there a genocide of white South Africans as Trump claims?

The US is essentially boycotting this weekend’s G20 summit in South Africa over accusations that the white Afrikaners are ‘being killed and slaughtered’ and that white farmers are having their land ‘…

Published on 3 days, 7 hours ago

What is Sudan’s war really about?

** This episode contains some very distressing details, including of killings, sexual violence and the experiences of children in war**

More than 150,000 people have been killed and about 12 million …

Published on 4 days, 7 hours ago

The oil lobbyist who tried to sink the first big climate deal

The American lawyer, oil lobbyist and master strategist Don Pearlman is said to have chain-smoked his way through almost every UN climate gathering from the early 1990s until his death in 2005.

Some …

Published on 5 days, 7 hours ago

The Saudi prince's long road to rehabilitation

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman – MBS – will be welcomed at the White House on his first visit to Washington since the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi led to global outrage. MBS has alwa…

Published on 6 days, 7 hours ago

Is the world entering a new age of nuclear testing?

In the last 72 hours, comments from President Trump and his administration have sparked fresh debate about whether the US could – or should – resume the kind of nuclear weapons tests that were halted…

Published on 1 week ago

Ghislaine Maxwell, the Epstein Files, and the scandal that won’t go away

**This episode contains themes of sexual abuse and grooming**

Calls to release all the Epstein files are growing, after Wednesday’s bombshell release of over 20,000 pages of documents related to the …

Published on 1 week, 3 days ago

The hostage negotiator’s guide to making deals with Putin’s Russia

Donald Trump has spent this year trying to negotiate a deal to end the war in Ukraine. So far, Vladimir Putin doesn’t seem interested in the US’s proposals.

One man who has successfully negotiated wi…

Published on 1 week, 4 days ago

Why is Trump threatening to sue the BBC?

The BBC has this week been rocked by a series of controversies, leading its Director General and Head of News to resign, and President Donald Trump threatening to sue the corporation over an edit it …

Published on 1 week, 5 days ago

Is social media dead?

For much of the 21st century, our social lives have been shaped, at least in part, on the internet. But in an age of influencers, generative AI, complex algorithms, and politically entangled technocr…

Published on 1 week, 6 days ago