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Today in Focus
Hosted by Nosheen Iqbal and Helen Pidd, Today in Focus brings you closer to Guardian journalism. Combining storytelling with insightful analysis and personal testimonies, the podcast takes you behind the headlines for a deeper understanding of the news, every weekday. Today in Focus is unmatched in...
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The Birth Keepers: Death plan – episode six
A backlash against the Free Birth Society intensifies and Emilee and Yolande respond to the crisis. This is episode six of a year-long investigation b...
The Birth Keepers: FBS goes global – episode five
Emilee and Yolande had created an ideology and then seeded it globally – a reach Sirin Kale and Lucy Osborne could not have fathomed when they began r...
Revisited: How the Beatles helped my autistic son find his voice
In this podcast from 4 April, John Harris speaks to Today in Focus about how music helped him connect with his son, James. Harris tells Helen Pidd wha...
The Birth Keepers: Building an empire – episode four
Within months of the death of Lorren’s baby, Journey Moon, and the public backlash against the Free Birth Society (FBS) that followed, Emilee Saldaya...
The Birth Keepers: Journey Moon – episode three
When Lorren Holliday got pregnant in 2018, she joined Emilee Saldaya’s Facebook group and quickly became hooked on the Free Birth Society podcasts. It...
The Birth Keepers: When Emilee met Yolande – episode two
Who is Emilee Saldaya, the woman behind the Free Birth Society movement? And how did she meet her business partner Yolande Norris-Clark? Do either wom...
The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one
The Free Birth Society (FBS) was selling pregnant women a simple message. They could exit the medical system and take back their power: by free birthi...
Revisited: Cringe! Why millennials became so uncool
An intergenerational war has broken out with Gen Z mercilessly mocking millennials as embarrassing and out of touch. Chloë Hamilton reports. Help supp...
Revisited: Having a baby with your best mate
Nicola Slawson on her decision to have a baby with her best friend Tom rather than a romantic partner. Help support our independent journalism at theg...
How the Guardian reported 2025
The Guardian’s editor-in-chief Katharine Viner looks back on the biggest news stories of 2025. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian....
Why Bethlehem is celebrating Christmas again
Pastor Munther Isaac talks about his hometown of Bethlehem – the scene of the nativity – celebrating Christmas for the first time in three years. Help...
The moment this year I’ll never forget
Today in Focus hears from Guardian journalists all around the world about their most memorable moments – and sounds – of 2025. Help support our indepe...
What to expect from the Jeffrey Epstein files? – The Latest
The US Department of Justice is expected to release files relating to the disgraced late financier and sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein, this evening....
Culture 2025: the best in film, TV and music
Guardian critics Ben Beaumont-Thomas, Catherine Shoard and Hannah J Davies look back at some of the best (and worst) of the year. Help support our ind...
Deepfakes and pornography: the plan to tackle toxic masculinity – The Latest
The UK government’s long-awaited strategy to tackle violence against women and girls has been published today. Alexandra Topping joins Lucy Hough to e...
The Pinochet fan with a Nazi dad: meet Chile’s next president
Santiago-based journalist John Bartlett charts how far-right José Antonio Kast managed to win election by landslide. Help support our independent jour...
Doctors strike again amid flu crisis – The Latest
Resident doctors in England have begun five days of strike action after rejecting the government’s latest offer to resolve a long-running dispute over...
Ilhan Omar on Trump’s attacks on Somali-Americans
The congresswoman told David Smith about how it feels to be targeted by the world’s most powerful man. But why has Donald Trump gone after her and the...
Trump v BBC: broadcaster to fight back against $10bn lawsuit – The Latest
The BBC has vowed to defend itself against the $10bn lawsuit that the US president, Donald Trump, filed against it. Trump alleges the broadcaster ‘int...
What happened when Reform took power
When Reform took over 10 local councils in England this summer, it offered the first glimpse of how the party might govern if it were to get into No 1...
Horror and heroism in Bondi: what we know about the antisemitic terror attack – The Latest
Australia suffered one of the deadliest massacres in its modern history on Sunday when two gunmen opened fire on a Jewish celebration at Bondi beach i...
Labubus, TikTok and KPop Demon Hunters: how childhood went east Asian
Has east Asia replaced the US as the world’s cultural centre? With Jeff Yang. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one
The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message. They could exit the medical system and take back their power. By free birthing. Bu...
Exposed: the business linked to baby deaths across the world – The Latest
A year-long investigation into the Free Birth Society reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births w...
Is the far right hijacking Christianity?
Are US-style Christian politics finally taking root in the UK? With Lamorna Ash. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Why is Trump attacking Venezuelan boats? – The Latest
US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s campaign against the country’s president, Nicol...
Pete Hegseth unleashes his ‘warrior culture’ on the world
Donald Trump’s secretary of war is facing allegations of war crimes and a blistering report into his handling of classified information. Joseph Gedeon...
Will weakening human rights really stop far right? – The Latest
Keir Starmer has called on European leaders to urgently reform human rights laws so that member states can take tougher action to protect their border...
The social media ban for kids: Australia’s world-first experiment – podcast
Today in Focus talks to three teenagers, and technology reporter Josh Taylor, about Australia’s world-first legislation: a social media ban for under-...
Netflix v Paramount: Trump wades into Warner Bros battle – The Latest
The battle to buy Warner Bros Discovery has captured Donald Trump’s attention. The US president has said he will be involved in the decision on the co...
Palantir: the world’s ‘scariest company’?
How far will tech firm Palantir go to ‘save the West’? With Michael Steinberger and Johana Bhuiyan. Help support our independent journalism at theguar...
Trump turns on Europe: will he pull support for Ukraine?
Donald Trump has loomed large over Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s meeting with European leaders, after the US president took aim at the Ukrainian leader once a...
Is AI a bubble that’s about to pop?
Should we be worried about the vast amounts of money pouring into AI? And what will happen if the bubble bursts? Blake Montgomery reports. Help suppor...
Eurovision in crisis? Israel’s inclusion causes rift – The Latest
Several countries are boycotting Eurovision after Israel was cleared to compete in the 2026 song contest despite calls for it to be excluded over the...
The World Cup’s Maga makeover
Guardian sportswriter Jonathan Liew on how football went about courting Donald Trump – and how it might regret it when the World Cup comes to the US n...
Can Farage survive racism allegations? – The Latest
Reform’s deputy leader Richard Tice says allegations of racism from Nigel Farage’s school days are ‘made-up twaddle’. Lucy Hough speaks to investigati...
Zack Polanski on the Green party boom
Three months into his leadership the Green party membership is surging. Randeep Ramesh explains why. Help support our independent journalism at thegua...
Is Putin about to go to war with Europe? – The Latest
Vladimir Putin has stalled progress on a peace plan for Ukraine being brokered by Donald Trump’s US and has said he is ‘ready for war’ with Europe ‘if...
The 27-year-old white supremacist radicalising MAGA
Where is Nick Fuentes trying to lead the Republican party? J Oliver Conroy reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
Why is Labour scrapping jury trials for some cases? – The Latest
Criminal cases in England and Wales where a prison sentence is likely to be less than three years will be heard by a judge, not a jury, under plans fr...