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Beyond Today — 343 episodes

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Do we really understand drill?

2

Will coronavirus take away our jobs?

3

Is wokeness just white guilt?

4

Is coronavirus 'worse' than flu?

5

Why would you transition twice?

6

Why are teens getting pregnant in Middlesbrough?

7

What made Dubai’s princesses run away?

8

How do you fight anti-Semitism?

9

Should Priti Patel resign?

10

Why are people rioting in Delhi?

11

Does France have a #MeToo problem?

12

Can we be green and rich?

13

Does self-care really make you happy?

14

What’s the Harvey Weinstein story?

15

What are police cameras doing with your face print?

16

Coronavirus: are we all going to catch it?

17

Why would Facebook want to crack down on big tech?

18

Has Billie Eilish saved the music industry?

19

How should we react to Caroline Flack’s death?

20

Why is No 10 hiring ‘weirdos’?

21

Why is Trump standing up for religious teenagers?

22

How do you track extremists online?

23

Why can’t we sleep?

24

Why are people being deported to Jamaica?

25

Why would anyone spread lies about coronavirus?

26

Why are more young women killing themselves?

27

Parasite: what does it say about South Korea?

28

Why are we talking about Michael Barrymore?

29

Is it all looking good for Trump?

30

How did a lying breast surgeon destroy so many lives?

31

How do you stop a terror attack?

32

Why was an Irish teenager’s body found in a bag?

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33

Veganuary: was it worth it?

34

Why are so many Vietnamese people trafficked?

35

Did Huawei just win a tech war?

36

Coronavirus: what’s really happening?

37

What does Goop get right?

38

What happened when Trump removed the experts?

39

Harvey Weinstein: Is #MeToo on trial?

40

What’s wrong with ayahuasca tourism?

41

Can a new leader save Labour?

42

Is Blue Monday bad for our mental health?

43

What’s left out of Sex Education?

44

What happened when Iran fired back?

45

How do they really decide an Oscar?

46

Could AI do your job?

47

How did Britain’s worst serial rapist get away with it?

48

Should doctors tell you how to live?

49

Harry and Meghan: can you quit the royals?

50

Ayia Napa: how can she be guilty?

51

Iran: how bad is it?

52

Australian fires: who is to blame?

53

2010s: how did they sound?

54

Putin: man of the millennium?

55

Raheem Sterling: is he the next Beckham?

56

Did Trump kill the Kurdish dream?

57

Amazon: is there any escape?

58

Tory win: why are you surprised?

59

Hannah Fry: how scary are algorithms really?

60

How come there are protests everywhere?

61

Will you be judged for who you vote for?

62

Why are young people moving back to Mogadishu?

63

Jia Tolentino: is the internet fuelling self-delusion?

64

Why is Trump pardoning war crimes?

65

Does climate activism have a privilege problem?

66

Can terrorists ever really be rehabilitated?

67

Is TikTok being censored?

68

Hillsborough: do we inherit trauma?

69

Grace Millane: why is ‘rough sex’ a defence?

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Why is Instagram hiding likes?

71

Blue Story: is banning the film racist?

72

Are billionaires a bad thing?

73

Drag Race: what’s it done for queer culture?

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Is mental health breaking the NHS?

75

What’s wrong with plastic surgery?

76

Has the royal soap opera lost the plot?

77

Why aren’t we talking about Baptista Adjei?

78

Does self-care really make you happy?

79

Election memes: are we being played?

80

Why did a Chinese row ruin a bake off?

81

Why are bombs going off in Sweden?

82

Who killed Jodie Chesney?

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Do the Peru Two deserve a second chance?

84

Caitlyn Jenner: what’s your story?

85

Death Stranding: more than a game?

86

What happened to the Taliban?

87

What really decides your vote?

88

Why are millennials obsessed with astrology?

89

Lorry deaths: why spend thousands to reach the UK?

90

Why are people ‘cured’ by fake science?

91

Who are you Jonathan Van Ness?

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Baghdadi: Trump’s movie moment?

93

Esther Perel: does ‘the one’ exist?

94

What happened to the lost boys of Lanarkshire?

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95

Why does Facebook want you to date?

96

How did dirty money fund The Wolf of Wall Street?

97

Brexit: nearly done?

98

Cambridge Analytica: could it happen again?

99

Why would Nike sponsor a cheat?

100

What actually happened in Ayia Napa?

101

Has Trump revived Islamic State?

102

What’s it like at a Brexit Party rally?

103

Who controls our AI future?

104

How do you fight a surveillance state?

105

How is ‘pick-up’ culture still a thing?

106

Why do diplomats escape the law?

107

What does Windrush mean now?

108

Why is Prince Harry taking on the press?

109

What will the history books say about Brexit?

110

Will Saudi get away with murder?

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Could one phone call end Trump’s presidency?

112

Why raise a child gender neutral?

113

Alain de Botton: do we need God back?

114

Sexual assault: what happens after students speak out?

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Sexual assault: why reveal your name?

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Will fear save the planet?

117

What’s happening in the Supreme Court?

118

Emma Barnett: why talk about periods?

119

Cryptoqueen: why did she disappear?

120

Did one family create the opioid epidemic?

121

Sam Smith: what’s the problem with ‘them’?

122

Syria: why bomb hospitals?

123

Top Boy: what’s the story behind the comeback?

124

Vaping: can it kill you?

125

Femicide: is one student’s murder changing South Africa?

126

The Handmaid’s Tale: could it happen in real life?

127

How does slavery work now?

128

Malcolm Gladwell

129

Brexit: what happens next?

130

What’s the problem with only eating chips?

131

What’s it like to have “gay conversion therapy”?

132

Brexit: are we all radicals now?

133

Sara Pascoe: why does gender matter?

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134

Brexit: what just happened?

135

Who does the Amazon belong to?

136

Will Greta save the planet?

137

Louis Theroux (again)

138

Was Larnell Bruce killed because he was black?

139

Paul Pogba: should we end anonymity online?

140

Why did Iceland hold a funeral for a glacier?

141

Is the way we work bad for us?

142

Kashmir: what happens now?

143

Why did Israeli spies build a fake beach resort?

144

How did a Tinder date story fool us?

145

University: is it worth it?

146

Jeffrey Epstein: how much do we really know?

147

How did gambling take over football?

148

Cyntoia Brown: did Kim Kardashian get her out of prison?

149

No deal: will it happen?

150

No deal: what’s going to happen to our food?

151

What happens when you run out of water?

152

US shootings: can you shut down the white nationalists?

153

How do we smash the class ceiling?

154

Doping: why would you risk it?

155

Why does Donald Trump care about A$AP Rocky?

156

Will human contact become a luxury good?

157

Is big business coming for cannabis?

158

What does Love Island tell us about friendship?

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Do we want funny politicians?

160

What do companies do with your face?

161

Who is Boris Johnson?

162

Theresa May: where did it all go wrong?

163

Is the truth open source?

164

MH17: how was the truth uncovered?

165

Did Lyra McKee’s death change anything?

166

Did YouTube flatten the Earth?

167

Louis Theroux

168

Deadliest Day 6: Finding quiet

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Deadliest Day 5: Nobody can measure

170

Deadliest Day 4: Remedial banter

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Deadliest Day 3: Dead eyes

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Deadliest Day 2: That day

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Deadliest Day 1: Thrill of war

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Vampire Weekend at Glastonbury

175

Pride: when is a rainbow not enough?

176

Could hashtags save Sudan?

177

How did Anna Campbell end up dead in Syria?

178

Kim Jong-un: how did ‘rocket man’ and Trump become friends?

179

Glastonbury: how did the hippies go mainstream?

180

Heatwave: is this climate change?

181

Will the Gangnam sex scandal change Korea?

182

Is Boris Johnson untouchable?

183

Why are Muslims in China being locked up?

184

Johny Pitts: Afropean

185

What did a police shooting reveal about Huddersfield?

186

Have Hong Kong’s young people held back China’s superpower?

187

Thai cave rescue: what really happened?

188

Why are teenagers paid to stab each other?

189

Michael Barbaro

190

Should we kill elephants to save them?

191

Grenfell: what have we learnt?

192

Black Mirror: what makes it work?

193

Why aren’t lesbian couples taken seriously?

194

James Bridle

195

DNA testing: is it worth it?

196

What happens when you get health advice on Instagram?

197

Tiananmen: how dangerous is protest in China now?

198

Why did the Windsors want to meet the Trumps?

199

Is this a golden age for English football?

200

Why is Malaysia sending our rubbish back?

201

Fortnite: more than a video game?

202

Why is it so hard to go undercover?

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What does Europe think?

204

How did Jamie Oliver change food culture?

205

Why is revenge porn still spreading?

206

Huawei: what’s the problem with Chinese phones?

207

Why are female MPs terror targets?

208

Reni Eddo-Lodge

209

How did Amar find his mum?

210

What does the Hollywood college scandal tell us about class privilege?

211

Could Eurovision change Israel and the Palestinians?

212

Is Uber stalling?

213

Anna Sorokin: how do you fake your way into high society?

214

What does one rape trial tell us about lad culture and consent?

215

When does a royal become a celebrity?

216

Chernobyl: how do we split fact from fiction?

217

Why is Korean spy cam porn everyone’s problem?

218

Who would be a politician?

219

Is Caster Semenya a victim?

220

Does it matter if we can’t afford to live in cities?

221

Can India become a better place for women?

222

Are we being duped by the multi-level millionaires?

223

What is justice in the age of Trump?

224

What does Sri Lanka tell us about the future of Islamic State?

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Can we save the planet and still keep our stuff?

226

Lyra McKee: what did she want us to know?

227

Why would your mattress spy on you?

228

Should you get sacked for posting what you believe?

229

What should we think about Julian Assange?

230

Why would you stab someone? Part 2

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Are Extinction Rebellion the new Suffragettes?

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Would we have Brexit without the Tories?

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How did a teenager become the UK’s biggest cyber criminal?

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Did the financial crisis change banking?

235

Marc Maron: how did podcasts become mainstream?

236

What’s Chelsea doing about racism?

237

How dangerous are far right hipsters?

238

Would celebrities make better politicians?

239

True Crime: how ethical is it?

240

Has Brexit already changed me?

241

Can Grindr be kinder?

242

Is climate change the only thing making natural disasters worse?

243

Did one Russian mastermind this political chaos?

244

Dr. Evil: why is consent not enough?

245

What should you do when there’s a terrorist attack?

246

Should we say nice things about Bradford?

247

Why is the Pope worried about robots?

248

Should egg freezing be free?

249

Christchurch: how do you find the terrorists among the trolls?

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Simon Amstell: how do you learn who you are?

251

Can anyone explain the chaos?

252

Save or spend: what should I do with my money?

253

What happens to Shamima Begum now?

254

Are the police still racist?

255

How can a town beat the extremists?

256

Can you tell if you live in a bubble?

257

Anti-vax: why do we believe medical conspiracies?

258

Huawei: is there a tech cold war?

259

Why would you stab someone?

260

Is it still ok to listen to Michael Jackson?

261

Why does Kashmir matter to people here?

262

Why are car companies now tech firms?

263

Where should we learn about sex?

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Why does it matter if Jussie Smollett staged his own attack?

265

Grayson Perry: what are the liberal elite afraid of?

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Who are the new drug barons?

267

Oscars: what do you really have to do to win?

268

What do we get wrong about female terrorists?

269

Is the Islamic State really defeated?

270

What’s it like to be attacked at a Trump rally?

271

Should we be more scientific about love?

272

Can we stop the insects from dying?

273

Is it ok to pay women to have more children?

274

Amazon blackmail: should we feel sorry for the world’s richest man?

275

Jewrovision: can young Jews celebrate their identity?

276

How bad is social media for my mental health?

277

Stansted 15: would they chain themselves to a plane again?

278

El Chapo: what’s the truth behind the legend?

279

Can one conviction end FGM in the UK?

280

How did normal get so weird?

281

What can one building tell us about Venezuela?

282

Apple: is the iPhone era over?

283

R.Kelly: is #metoo closing in on music?

284

Are we getting more allergic to food?

285

BTS: Who made Korea cool?

286

How do you walk away from your ultra-religious community?

287

Should the James Bulger story win an Oscar?

288

Ocasio-Cortez: the first millennial political icon?

289

Blue Monday: how bad is it really?

290

Jon Ronson: what does porn tell us about hypocrisy?

291

How can one woman change the law?

292

Who should decide what sex you are?

293

Brexit: is it just embarrassing now?

294

Andy Murray: more than a champion?

295

Nish Kumar: is the news still funny?

296

Will I never need a car?

297

What happens when a paedophile hunter catches your dad?

298

The Bystander Effect: are we all guilty?

299

Kevin Spacey: what happens when #MeToo goes to court?

300

Bird Box: just how big is Netflix?

301

Peter Frankopan: who rules the world in 2019?

302

The Slumflower: how can we be better in 2019?

303

Beyond Today’s People of the Year

304

Should we talk more about grief?

305

Why are American spies so scared of China?

306

What’s the real impact of the ethnic pay gap?

307

Is the extreme right the new terror threat?

308

Laura Kuenssberg: will politics stop for Christmas?

309

Porn bans: who decides what we see?

310

Mental health: why are young people getting lost in the system?

311

Do we have a problem with successful black men?

312

Brexit: will it ever be over?

313

Where is Dubai’s missing Princess?

314

Why risk your life to report a war that's ignored?

315

How will immigration change after Brexit?

316

Blackfishing: is it okay for white girls to look black?

317

Can Manchester mend the planet?

318

George the Poet: can stories change the world?

319

What’s wrong with designer babies?

320

What’s going on between Russia and Trump?

321

Dream job denied: how do you bounce back?

322

Who will face justice for the war in Syria?

323

Who is Michelle Obama?

324

What happens when we #travel for the gram?

325

How Saudi is my Uber?

326

Why are people so afraid of Universal Credit?

327

Is it ok to feel sorry for Theresa May?

328

Oobah Butler: should news amuse?

329

Who’s helping teachers with tough kids?

330

Does Facebook really care about fake news?

331

Will we notice when Brexit happens?

332

Can we believe brands who get political?

333

Stacey Dooley: Should the news have feelings?

334

Are we forgetting how to remember?

335

Is Trumpism here to stay?

336

Should misogyny be a hate crime?

337

How has #MeToo changed American politics?

338

Amol Rajan: who makes the news?

339

What’s up with WhatsApp?

340

What’s the real impact of middle class drug use?

341

Instagram famous: how dangerous can it be?

342

Do we have enough money now?

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