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Hosted by Anushka Asthana, 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.

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  1. Does Labour have a route out of Britain’s rolling crises?
  2. The FBI raid of Donald Trump’s home
  3. How the Taliban took Afghanistan
  4. The lies and fall of Boris Johnson
  5. Liz Truss v Rishi Sunak
  6. The Pegasus Project part 1: an invitation to Paris
  7. The cheating scandal rocking the chess world
  8. The end of Liz Truss
  9. What can Britain expect from Liz Truss as prime minister?
  10. The Pegasus Project part 2: cat and mouse
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  1. ‘The government failed’: Dominic Cummings takes aim at No 10’s Covid response
  2. Is Russia on the retreat in Ukraine?
  3. What has Brexit done for Britain?
  4. Is Vladimir Putin really prepared to use nuclear weapons? – podcast
  5. The UK’s energy bill crisis
  6. What happens if Russia turns off Europe’s gas?
  7. The Pegasus Project part 3: cartels, corruption and cyber-weapons
  8. The fall of Andrew Cuomo
  9. The case against Donald Trump
  10. Is the UK ready for Rishi Sunak?
  11. Putin orders troops into Ukraine. Now what?
  12. What Russians are being told about the war in Ukraine
  13. The race for Tory leadership
  14. The arrest of Andrew Tate: the ‘king of toxic masculinity’
  15. Who’s running Britain?
  16. Why are Britain’s new homes so rubbish?
  17. Understanding the cryptocurrency crash
  18. Is Liz Truss already fighting to save her premiership?
  19. The Pegasus project part 5: the fightback against private spyware begins
  20. The Uber files: the unicorn (part 1)
  21. The Tory leadership race and the ghost of Margaret Thatcher
  22. Israel’s shadow war with Iran
  23. Why is England so vulnerable to droughts?
  24. Is it time for a wealth tax on the super-rich?
  25. What happens if Russia invades Ukraine?
  26. Brazil’s election: a last chance to save the Amazon?
  27. Truss and Kwarteng: counting the cost of chaos
  28. Marina Hyde on five years of watching the political circus
  29. Excitement, boycotts and rainbow protest: Qatar’s World Cup kicks off
  30. How we all got hooked on caffeine
  31. Has the Delta variant derailed Australia’s zero-Covid strategy?
  32. What does Sinn Féin’s win mean for Northern Ireland?
  33. The race to mine the deep sea
  34. Sue Gray day: the Partygate finale
  35. The ‘carbon bombs’ set to blow up the world’s climate pledges
  36. Cost of the crown part 1: valuing the royal family
  37. Scientists issue a climate code red
  38. The fight for the future of the BBC
  39. The Pegasus Project part 4: runaway princesses and the UK connection
  40. Can Emmanuel Macron hold off France’s far-right surge?
  41. The Wuhan lab leak theory
  42. The all-powerful Xi Jinping
  43. Has Britain become a country of shoplifters?
  44. Do the Democrats have a Biden problem?
  45. Is the UK housing market heading for a crash?
  46. Is Italy heading for its first far-right leader since Mussolini? – podcast
  47. Putin’s revenge for the Crimea bridge attack
  48. What was behind Jacinda-mania – and why did it end so suddenly?
  49. Are Israel and Palestine on the brink of another war?
  50. Boris Johnson: the damning verdict
  51. Comedian, president, warrior: the transformation of Volodymyr Zelenskiy
  52. The deal that could transform politics in Northern Ireland
  53. The Plymouth attack and misogynist ‘incel’ culture
  54. The disposable vape ban
  55. Sudan’s warring generals
  56. The Republican race for 2024: can anyone stop Trump?
  57. Keir Starmer’s first weekend in power
  58. Can the commonwealth survive the death of the queen?
  59. The deadly consequences of Britain’s lockdown drinking
  60. President Biden steps aside
  61. Will Tokyo really host a pandemic Olympics?
  62. Florida’s ‘don’t say gay’ bill
  63. Why is generation Z so divided on gender?
  64. GB News enters the culture war
  65. The Russian soldier exposing what life is really like in Putin’s invading army
  66. Liz Truss: the first 48 hours
  67. Can tax cuts save the Tories?
  68. Rishi Sunak’s big election gamble
  69. Boris Johnson clings on against the odds
  70. Is Brexit the reason McDonald's is running out of milkshakes?
  71. The problem with OnlyFans’ mainstream dream
  72. Labour’s landslide victory
  73. How to feed the world without destroying it
  74. Can Colombia’s first leftwing president deliver change?
  75. Can King Charles reinvent himself and the monarchy?
  76. Why the rest of the world can’t afford to ignore the coup in Niger
  77. How the cost of living changed the way we eat out
  78. Who screwed millennials: a generation left behind – Full Story podcast
  79. The Murdochs' real-life succession drama | Podcast
  80. Racism, policing and austerity: have lessons been learned since England’s 2011 riots?
  81. Is the cryptocurrency trading boom creating a new generation of addicts?
  82. Will Elon Musk regret buying Twitter?
  83. The rise of Europe’s far-right parties – podcast
  84. Reform UK: the party frightening the Tories from the fringes
  85. The rise and fall of Vice Media
  86. Can Rishi Sunak pull the Conservative party back together? – podcast
  87. Cocaine, gangs and murder: Ecuador’s 10 days of terror
  88. The week the world woke up to Russian war crimes in Ukraine
  89. How a far right assault on Brazil’s democracy failed
  90. Is the UK in the grip of ‘greedflation’?

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