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News Meeting: Christiana Figueres on the Dubai floods and Rishi Sunak’s smoking ban
Episode 236
Former UN climate chief Christiana Figueres joins the Tortoise team to tell them what she thinks should lead the news.
Plus, Kevin Sullivan and Mary J…
2 years ago
Sensemaker: The Swiss women who went to court over climate change and won
Episode 235
A group of Swiss women who are all over the age of 64 took their government to court over climate change and won. How did they do it?
To find out more…
2 years ago
Trendy: What London Thinks
Episode 234
Forty years ago London was in decline. Now it’s a global megacity with a growing population and a large economy, but it’s quite socially conservative…
2 years ago
Sensemaker: The Hull funeral home investigation
Episode 233
Families have been left with some difficult unanswered questions after Legacy Independent Funeral Directors was raided by police. What’s alleged to h…
2 years ago
Sensemaker: Angela Rayner’s high stakes pledge
Episode 232
A slowburn story has presented a moment of peril for Labour’s deputy leader, and perhaps Keir Starmer too.
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2 years ago
Sensemaker: Iran attacks Israel: what happens next?
Episode 231
The Middle East is on the brink after Iran launched a huge drone and missile strike on Israel, the first time it has ever attacked the country direct…
2 years ago
News Meeting: Why Iran attacked Israel and Trump’s hush money trial
Episode 230
What should lead the news? Three people pitch the story they think should lead the news to Tortoise’s deputy editor Giles Whittell.
In this episode th…
2 years ago
Sensemaker: A health warning from an esports star
Episode 229
Why Jaden Ashman, known online as Wolfiez, decided to speak out about the impact being a pro-gamer had on his health and what it could mean for the n…
2 years ago
News Meeting: Swiss women win landmark climate case and Zeinab Badawi on a year of war in Sudan
Episode 228
The journalist and president of SOAS pitches the story she thinks should lead the news and discusses her new book ‘An African History of Africa’.
In t…
2 years ago
Sensemaker: Mr Bates at the Post Office inquiry
Episode 227
Former subpostmaster and campaigner Alan Bates has finally had his day in front of the Post Office inquiry that’s looking into the Horizon IT scandal…
2 years ago