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Radical with Amol Rajan — 208 episodes

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What Are the Tech Billionaires Really Like? (Your Radical Questions with Reid Hoffman)

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The Jobs Revolution: Is AI Working for You? (Reid Hoffman)

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Is AI Coming for Your Job? (Your Radical Questions with Matt Clifford)

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Going for Growth: Can We Make Britain Wealthy Again? (Matt Clifford)

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How Can More Women Become Business Leaders? (Your Radical Questions with Emma Grede)

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Taking Responsibility: Are We Thinking About Success and Ambition All Wrong? (Emma Grede)

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Why Are Young People Abandoning the Political Centre? (Your Radical Questions with Adrian Wooldridge)

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Reclaiming the Centre: Is the Old Political Order Dead? (Adrian Wooldridge)

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Can Technology Rescue Reading? (Your Radical Questions with James Marriott)

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The Reading Recession: Are We Making Ourselves Less Intelligent? (James Marriott)

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Could All Government Decisions Be Made Through an App? (Your Radical Questions with Hélène Landemore)

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Rethinking Democracy: Would Citizens Do a Better Job than Politicians? (Hélène Landemore)

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Who Is Responsible For Over-Medicalisation? (Your Radical Questions with Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan)

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Over-Diagnosis: Are Too Many People Being Given Medical Labels? (Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan)

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Should Former Colonial Powers Pay Reparations? (Your Radical Questions with Simukai Chigudu)

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The Legacy of Empire: How to Reckon with the Past (Simukai Chigudu)

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Do Polls Influence Public Opinion? (Your Radical Questions with James Kanagasooriam)

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Taking Back Control: Why ‘Agency’ Could Be The Next Big Idea In Politics (James Kanagasooriam)

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Does Marriage Need Modernising? (Your Radical Questions with Ed Davies)

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The Decline of Marriage: Why We Need to Prioritise Family Life (Ed Davies)

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How Can Families Limit the Ultra‑Processed Foods Their Kids Eat? (Your Radical Questions with Thomasina Miers)

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Health and Hospitality: When Does Food Stop Being Food? (Thomasina Miers)

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Is Capitalism Holding Back Social Mobility? (Your Radical Questions with Joe Seddon)

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Social Mobility: How to Break the Link Between Background and Opportunity (Joe Seddon)

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Can A ‘Repair Not Replace’ Culture Be Revived In Fashion? (Your Radical Questions with Josephine Philips)

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Consumer Culture: Why We Need to Buy Less (Josephine Philips)

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How Do We Reduce Political Polarisation Online? (Your Radical Questions with Jonathan Haidt)

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Social Media Bans: Are We at a Global Turning Point? (Jonathan Haidt)

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Will There Be a Revolt Against AI Music? (Your Radical Questions with Panos A. Panay)

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The Night Manager: How to Make Great British Drama (Simon Cornwell)

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Inside the Music Business: The Grammys President on the Fight to Protect Artists (Panos A. Panay)

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What Does It Take to Become a Foster Carer? (Your Radical Questions with Louise Allen)

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Children in Care: How to Fix the Fostering Crisis (Louise Allen)

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How Will The Shift To Green Energy Reshape Global Politics? (Your Radical Questions with Professor Helen Thompson)

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Trump v China: How Oil Is Defining Great Power Politics (Professor Helen Thompson)

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Are You In a Social Media Echo Chamber? (Your Radical Questions with Louisa Munch)

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Knowledge and Nostalgia: Why a University Education Should Be Free (Louisa Munch)

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Can Donald Trump Be Compared To Julius Caesar? (Your Radical Questions with Tom Holland)

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Radical History: Greek Gods, Roman Emperors and Religion (with Tom Holland from The Rest Is History)

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Radical Essay: How Is Technology Changing Our Lives? (A 2025 Review)

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What Do You Think About AI Using Your Writing? (Your Radical Questions with Naomi Alderman)

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Information Crisis: Why Social Media Bans Aren't The Answer (Naomi Alderman)

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Should School Meals Be Plant-Based? (Your Radical Questions with Jamie Oliver)

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Jamie Oliver: Obesity and Debt are Killing Britain

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What Do We Do About Young Men and Porn? (Your Radical Questions with Jordan Stephens)

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Porn and Masculinity: How to Teach Kids about Sex and Relationships (Jordan Stephens)

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Will Conservation Become More Mainstream? (Your Radical Questions with Chris Packham)

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A War on Climate Change: Are Environmental Activists Losing The Fight? (Chris Packham)

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How Good Is Vertical Farming? (Your Radical Questions with James Rebanks)

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Beyond Ultra-Processed Foods: Can Farmers Fix Our Health and the Planet? (James Rebanks)

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Digital Dominance: How to Limit the Power of Big Tech (Sir Nick Clegg)

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Irrational Humans: How Our Behaviour Shapes the Economy (Professor Richard Thaler)

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A New Generational Divide: Living with(out) the Bank of Mum and Dad (Dr Eliza Filby)

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ChatGPT and Google: The Tech Billionaire Taking On AI Companies (Matthew Prince)

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A Fatal Punch: Why I Met the Parents of the Man I Killed (Jacob Dunne)

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Climate Migration: Confronting the Reality of Global Warming (Gaia Vince)

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British Identity: How Schools Can Improve Multiculturalism (Katharine Birbalsingh)

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The Weaponisation of Science: How to Avoid a Global Catastrophe (Professor Carlo Rovelli)

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Life After Vogue: Why I Want To Reinvent Fashion Magazines (Edward Enninful)

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Identity Politics: Why the Left Needs to Stop Fighting Culture Wars (Ash Sarkar)

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Artificial Intelligence: An AI Boss Warns About the Risks (Dario Amodei)

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Jordan Schwarzenberger Part Two: A Radical Religious Conversion

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YouTube, Insta and TikTok: A Guide to Growing Your Social Media Following (Jordan Schwarzenberger - part one)

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Homelessness and the Housing Crisis: How to End Rough Sleeping (Sabrina Cohen-Hatton)

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Fake News: How We Can Save Ourselves From Disinformation (Eliot Higgins)

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Books v Screens: Why Every School Needs a Library (Katherine Rundell)

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Britain’s New Right: Could Reform Replace the Tories? (Dr James Orr)

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Robert Macfarlane: Rivers Are Dying, So Give Them Rights

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Grey Britain: Do We Need to Have More Children? (Dr Paul Morland)

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From Trump to Corbyn: How Social Media Shapes Politics (Billy Bragg)

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Law and Order: How to Fix Britain's Courts (Lady Hale)

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Knife Crime: Can Education Save Lives? (Steve Chalke)

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The Future of War: How Should the West Respond to its Enemies? (Sir Niall Ferguson)

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AI and Sexism: The Fight Against Misogyny Online (Laura Bates)

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Introducing... Radical with Amol Rajan

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Populism, conspiracies and... Doctor Who

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Is your mobile phone the best or worst friend you’ve ever had?

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Gary Lineker, the BBC and celebrity influencers

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Eurovision: Europe’s biggest election

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Joe Biden, VE Day and the politics of nostalgia

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North Korea fights for Russia

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Is Putin playing Trump on Ukraine?

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Is Trump on a collision course with China?

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Trump’s Tariff U-turn

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Guilty! Marine Le Pen and the future of Europe’s populist right

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JD Vance: does Trump’s VP really hate Europe?

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Bonus: Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty on Adolescence and male rage

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Adolescence and the Crisis of Masculinity

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Is Starmer finally getting to grips with being PM?

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What's different about Trump 2.0?

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What will Starmer’s defence spending buy from Trump?

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Ukraine or Russia: Whose Side Is Trump On?

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What’s up with Gen Z?

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How To Deal With Trump (and the EU)

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Interview: Bill Gates talks to Amol

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Rachel Reeves in ‘Bring It On Mode’

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Trump and the Era of the Deal

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Bonus Q&A: Trump returns to the White House

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Going for Growth: Rachel Reeves v the markets

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Bonus: The BBC’s Russia Editor on Life in Moscow

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Musk, Zuckerberg and Free Speech

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2025 Lookahead

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Bonus: Dame Laura Kenny guest edits Today

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Bonus: Baroness Floella Benjamin guest edits Today

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Bonus: Sir Sajid Javid guest edits Today

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Bonus: Dwayne Fields guest edits Today

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Bonus: Frank Cottrell-Boyce edits Today

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News Review of the Year 2024

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Interview: Kemi Badenoch talks to Amol

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Political Turmoil in France and Germany

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Nigel Farage, Reform and the Future of British Politics

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Keir Starmer's Reset

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Esther Rantzen on the Assisted Dying Debate

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Interview: Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks about being a Today Christmas guest editor

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Blair and Brown pay tribute to John Prescott

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Can you smash the gangs to stop the boats?

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Special report: Europe’s frontline against illegal migration

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Rural Revolt

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US Election Q&A

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Trump 2.0

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Analysis: A Budget for the history books

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Interview: Rachel Reeves talks to Nick about the Budget

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Bonus Q&A: Swearing, spin and social media

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Interview: Kate Bush talks to Today

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Musk goes all-in for Trump

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Michael Gove on right-wing politics, the Tories and Trump v Harris

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Is Labour working?

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Iran, Israel and the Middle East crisis explained

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Ruby Wax talks to Amol

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Keir Starmer’s interview - the analysis

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The Keir Starmer interview

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Will the Lebanon blasts lead to an escalation in the Middle East?

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Bonus Q&A – BBC jargon, who makes Today and covering the US election

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Doom, Gloom and the NHS

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Will the victims of Grenfell ever get justice?

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Starmer’s ‘black holes’: What will fill them?

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Summer special – celebrity Q&A

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Summer special: Is journalism in crisis?

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Social media and the riots: Musk, misinformation and moral responsibility.

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Bonus episode - Frank Skinner opens up to Amol

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How do we turbo-charge Britain’s economy?

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Bonus Q&A: Young MPs, podcast impartiality and the state of political journalism

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Mary Beard on power, succession and rebellions

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Biden quits - but can Kamala beat Trump?

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Starmer, Trump, and the New World Order

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Can political rhetoric kill?

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New MPs, new government... new politics?

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Reeves goes for growth in the Treasury, Starmer takes to the world stage

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Post-election pod: How will Labour govern? And who will take charge of the Tories?

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Election Night Fever and the Challenge across the Channel

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Bonus Q&A – 'None of the Above' on ballot papers & election night cliché bingo.

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It’s election week!

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Should we trust the polls?

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Newscast x The Today Podcast x When It Hits The Fan

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Sunak’s betting crisis, Starmer’s gender row and Farage takes on the Mail

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Bonus Q&A – Why do politicians use big numbers and why do we vote with pencils?

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Growing pains: how to grow an economy and get young people voting

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Farage’s non-manifesto, should Corbyn have stood for the Greens and where’s Boris Johnson?

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Extra! The Today Podcast Live! Bonus episode ft. James May

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The Today Podcast: Live!

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Manifesto week, political earthquakes and interview tactics

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Sunak squares up, Farage steps in

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Sunak and Starmer go head to head

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Starmer, Socialism & Diane Abbott - whose side is he really on?

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Rishi Sunak Talks to Today

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Election announcement special

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What does Keir Starmer really believe in?

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Hung parliament or thumping majority? And why do we all feel so skint?

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Cutting through the spin – elections bonus ep

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AI and humanity’s future: chilling or thrilling?

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Could an MP present the Today programme?

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Q&A – lightweight politicians, interviews that made you blush… Ft Esther Rantzen & Stephen Fry

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Smoke-free generation: Is this Sunak’s legacy?

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Where’s the money coming from?

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Tragedy in Gaza: Will this week’s events change anything?

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Why should you have to pay for the BBC?

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Alastair Campbell on the changing face of Starmer’s Labour

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Revolt on the right! Reform, Rishi and (Red) Wall-to-Wall Chaos

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Why the Home Office is ‘dysfunctional’ - Sacked immigration chief speaks out

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Hunt’s Budget - will it make a difference?

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By-election bonus: Rochdale, Galloway, Gaza… what now?

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Mob rule: Where should we draw the line on protest?

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Disgrace! Why are MPs playing politics with the Middle East?

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How did the culture wars take over? Ft Jon Ronson

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Why we need to talk about cancer ft. Stephen Fry

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Does nanny (state) know best?

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How do we deal with President Trump (again)?

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Does Starmer need Scotland to win the general election?

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Is democracy dying?

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The Moments In History Amol and Nick Wish They’d Covered

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News Review of the Year

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Esther Rantzen on a Christmas she did not expect to see

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Is Putin in danger of winning in Ukraine?

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Sunk! Is Sunak’s Tory Party over?

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Why Generation Rent are so angry

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Are these tax cuts for real?

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James May: On Top Gear, tea and driverless cars

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Revolting! How much trouble are Sunak and Starmer in?

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David Cameron In, Suella Braverman Out

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The Politics of Protest: Suella Braverman vs the police

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Covidshambles: The human cost of chaos in No 10

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Your Questions Answered

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What hope for peace?

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What Is This War Really About?

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Horror in Israel and Gaza - What next?

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I cried after presenting my first Today programme

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Can Rishi Sunak win it for the Tories?

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Introducing The Today Podcast