What is it like to be one of the first journalists to bear witness to an unfolding crisis? Four years after the Saudi-led coalition entered the conflict in Yemen, 14 million people were facing a famine that, if left unchecked, would be the worst in a century. Our diplomatic correspondent travelled to the heart of the regions worst affected and recorded the devastating impact of the war on ordinary people’s lives. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Tim Shipman on government chaos
We kicked off 2019 with Theresa May’s Brexit deal getting the thumbs down in parliament and ended it with Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister following the result of a momentous general election (and with Brexit firmly back on the agenda). From scoops to verifying sources, Tim Shipman of The Sunday Times talks us through his year in Westminster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Paul Morgan-Bentley on forced marriage in the UK
Sometimes scandals happen under our noses. Over several months our head of investigations set about exposing the government’s complicity in facilitating forced marriages. Here he explains how he discovered that government officials were charging teenage British girls fees to be rescued from abusers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Richard Spencer on the fall of Raqqa
It took an extraordinary military blitz to rout Isis from its de facto capital, Raqqa. The trauma and terror of those final days were witnessed first hand by Richard Spencer. Here he describes what it was like to enter the devastated Syrian city and pick over the remnants of the once mighty caliphate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Decca Aitkenhead on the future of pop
Billie Eilish is the home-schooled teenage superstar described by many as the future of pop. In an astonishingly honest conversation with our chief interviewer, Billie, who already has 25 million Instagram followers, opens up about therapy, her boyfriend and how success has changed her life — for better and for worse. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Go behind the story on some of the biggest stories from the Times and the Sunday Times. From Anthony Loyd on Shamima Begum to Jonathan Calvert on how How Qatar bought the World Cup. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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