Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAir conditioning for all? France divided over response to record-breaking heatwave
The heat is on. Enough to make Parisians take the plunge into the once notoriously polluted Canal Saint Martin. France this Tuesday awakening from it…
15 hours ago
Labour's last chance? Burnham set to replace Starmer as UK faces far-right surge
Another post-Brexit prime minister bites the dust. Keir Starmer has owned up to the obvious: that he's too unpopular to lead the Labour Party into th…
1 day, 15 hours ago
Signing off? Trump rushes to turn page on Iran war
Surprise! A stroke of a pen over dinner at Versailles has pre-empted plans for that big Friday signing in Switzerland of an interim agreement between…
5 days, 15 hours ago
At the mercy of Silicon Valley? Europe exposed by Trump AI export ban
Is it better to persuade or to confront? French leader Emmanuel Macron is opting for the royal treatment with Donald Trump at Versailles, what with a…
6 days, 1 hour ago
Ukraine back in favour? At G7, Trump threatens return of Russia oil sanctions
Before he left Washington, there were reports that Volodymyr Zelensky wasn't even on Donald Trump's G7 bilateral meeting list. But in the end, the US…
1 week ago
'Let the oil flow!' Can US and Iran actually strike a lasting deal?
If Donald Trump calls it a peace deal, does that make it so? '"Let the oil flow," trumpeted the US president after agreeing on the day of his 80th bi…
1 week, 1 day ago
Trump's World Cup: More matches, higher prices, fewer foreigners
Can blatant racism and shameless greed ruin the World Cup? Fans of the beautiful game and its history can take solace in the opening match at Mexico …
1 week, 5 days ago
Has France failed its children? Outrage over murder of 11-year-old Lyhanna
Here in France, outrage over the apparent failure to stop the murder of 11-year-old Lyhanna. The suspect – a 41-year-old father of one of her schoolm…
1 week, 6 days ago
Unbreakable Kim? China's Xi visits Russia-backed North Korean leader
It takes convincing these days to get China's leader to go abroad. Xi Jinping has just wrapped up what was only his first foreign visit of 2026. Why …
2 weeks ago
Who calls the shots? Trump tries to rein in Netanyahu, salvage Iran deal
The US president believed those who insisted he could wrap up hostilities by the end of March, long before the November midterms. If not, the off-ram…
2 weeks, 1 day ago