Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLights out in Lebanon‘s schools as crisis hits
Episode 228
Every year, for millions of parents, pupils and teachers around the world, September means the summer holidays are coming to an end and it is time to…
5 years ago
20 years of the war on terror
Episode 227
On September 11, 2001 New York's World Trade Centre towers were brought crashing down, forever changing the course of history. Almost 3,000 lives …
5 years, 1 month ago
Evacuees left behind in Afghanistan
Episode 226
America’s longest war is over after the dramatic withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan ordered by President Joe Biden. The Taliban have taken Kabu…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Middle East’s Captagon crisis
Episode 225
In April 2021, customs officers in the Saudi city of Jeddah searched a shipment of Lebanese pomegranates. Hidden inside the fruit were more than five…
5 years, 1 month ago
How Kabul fell to the Taliban
Episode 224
Afghanistan has seen war for decades, but none of them has involved so decisive a military takeover of the country as the latest. The speed with whic…
5 years, 1 month ago
A new era for Iran
Episode 223
On August 5th, Iran inaugurated a new president putting an end to the 8-year presidency of reformist Hassan Rouhani and ushered in a new, hard-line …
5 years, 2 months ago
Ep 4. The Blast - Fallout
Episode 222
In the final episode, we follow the volunteers who took to the shattered streets of Beirut in the hours and days after the explosion of August 4, 202…
5 years, 2 months ago
Ep 3. The Blast - Zero Hour
Episode 221
In Episode 3 of The Blast, The National’s Finbar Anderson recounts the day of the explosion. As The fire in Warehouse 12 grows in intensity, a fire c…
5 years, 2 months ago
Ep 2. The Blast - The Six-Year Wait
Episode 220
In Episode 2 of The Blast, The National’s Finbar Anderson and Sunniva Rose head down to the docks of Beirut port. They try to piece together what was…
5 years, 2 months ago
Ep 1. The Blast - The Russian and The Rhosus
Episode 219
On August 4, 2020 the heart of Beirut was ripped apart by a huge explosion caused by 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate detonating at the city’s port.
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