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The Explanation — 316 episodes
The Media Show: Wrestling with Trump
The President's Path: Trump’s midterm messaging
Unspun World: What’s at stake for Iran’s regime?
The Media Show: The accidental BBC News star
The President's Path: Is Trump safe?
Unspun World: Trump's exit strategy from Iran
The Media Show: I’m a Celebrity… get me a lawyer!
The President's Path: Trump goes quiet
Unspun World: US-Iran standoff over Strait of Hormuz escalates
The Media Show: Building the Uncanny empire
The President's Path: Trump's legacy
The Media Show: Artemis II and Nasa’s media machine
The President’s Path: The political consequences of war and peace for Trump
The Media Show: Investigating Sam Altman
The President's Path: Trump’s address over the Iran war
The Media Show: How far should reporters go with AI?
The President's Path: Is the US fighting two wars against Iran?
Unspun World: US pauses strikes on Iran’s energy infrastructure
The Media Show: Cold-calling Trump
The President's Path: Trump slams allies over Iran war help
Unspun World: How is the Iran war impacting the global economy?
The Media Show: Reporting from Inside Iran
The President's Path: Trump’s mixed messages over war on Iran
Unspun World: What do people in Iran think about the war?
The Media Show: Who’s shaping American media?
The Strait of Hormuz
Unspun World: Can Iran hold out against US-Israeli strikes?
The Media Show: Iran and the bigger story
Trump’s Texas showdown
Unspun World: Russia-Ukraine war enters its fifth year
The Media Show: The Andrew photo
The President's Path: Inside Trump’s State of the Union
Unspun World: What’s the future of US-Europe relations?
The Media Show: MTV’s co‑founder on reshaping pop culture
The President’s Path: Is Trump facing a Republican rebellion in Congress?
Unspun World: Who is in control of Gaza now?
The Media Show: Bonfire of the Murdochs
The Media Show: The Epstein files
The President’s Path: Epstein files
Unspun World: Is time running out for Iran's supreme leader?
The President’s Path: Minneapolis unrest
Unspun World: Is Europe toughening its stance on Trump?
The Media Show: Netflix’s skyscraper live stunt
The Evidence: Anaesthesia
The President’s Path: US-Europe breakup
Unspun World: Trump's return, one year on
The Media Show: The battle for brand Beckham
The President’s Path: Trump’s world domination
The Media Show: Iran protests and international coverage
The President’s Path: After Venezuela, what next for Trump?
The Media Show: Reporting the Venezuela operation
The Media Show: How to Make a Hit TV Show
The President’s Path: Year in review
The Media Show: Meet The Tech Bros
The President’s Path: Maga coalition cracks
The Media Show: Reporting the Bondi beach attack
The President’s Path: Affordability
The Media Show: Netflix’s Hollywood takeover drama
The President’s Path: The health of healthcare
The Media Show: Manchester’s YouTube problem
The President’s Path: Trump v California
The Media Show: Another day, another BBC editing row?
The President’s Path: Redistricting
The Media Show: Ed Sheeran’s one-shot film
The President’s Path: US-Venezuela boat strikes
Unspun World: Are Russian forces on the brink of seizing Pokrovsk?
The Media Show: Trump’s billion-dollar BBC threat
The President’s Path: Elections fallout
Unspun World: War-weariness in Russia
The Media Show: Lessons from Top Gear
The President’s Path: Electoral battlegrounds 2025
Unspun World: Donald Trump’s China strategy
The Media Show: Advertising race row
The President’s Path: Shutdown and teardown
Unspun World: Will Hamas really give up control of Gaza?
The Media Show: When the Royals lose control of the story
Weight loss jabs: A medical game changer?
The President’s Path: How many wars has Donald Trump ended?
Unspun World: Who will run Gaza?
The Media Show: The Gaza Ceasefire
The President’s Path: Supreme Court shapes Trump's powers
Unspun World: Is peace in Gaza now possible?
The Media Show: Reporting from Inside Putin’s Russia
The President’s Path: Trump’s power
The Media Show: Is Larry Ellison the new Rupert Murdoch?
The President's Path: Silencing voices
Unspun World: World leaders formally recognise Palestinian statehood
The Media Show: Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension
The President’s Path: Trump's diplomacy
Unspun World: President Trump’s second state visit to the UK
The Media Show: Reporting Charlie Kirk’s killing
The President’s Path: The killing of Charlie Kirk
Unspun World: Protests hit France as new PM takes office
The Media Show: Super Mario Bros at 40
The President’s Path: Trump's troubles
The Media Show: France’s political crisis
The President’s Path: Trump’s law and order
The Media Show: The mystery freelancer
The President’s Path: Trump the peacemaker?
The Media Show: Trump, Zelensky and the cameras
The President’s Path: Trump’s Latino base
The Media Show: Interview of an AI avatar
The President’s Path: Democratic offensive
The Media Show: Taiwan’s war drama tests political boundaries on screen
The President’s Path: Trump’s grievances
The Media Show: Is AI polluting the internet beyond repair?
The President’s Path: Trump’s first six months back in office
The Media Show: YouTubers and the migrant hotel protest
The President's Path: Why are Epstein files dividing MAGA and Trump?
The Media Show: A superinjunction that gagged the media
The Media Show: Oasis concert photo row
Unspun World: Donald Trump's foreign policy
The Media Show: Gaza documentary controversy
Unspun World: Has Iran weathered the storm?
The Media Show: Iranian harassment of BBC journalists
Unspun World: Where is the conflict between Israel and Iran heading?
The Media Show: Israel-Iran coverage
Unspun World: Trump's immigration crackdown
The Media Show: Will AI kill the advertising industry?
What does a new president mean for Poland?
The Media Show: Can NPR survive Trump’s cuts?
Unspun World: Will Israeli criticism change Netanyahu's Gaza stance?
The Media Show: NYT editor Joe Kahn, and travel presenter Simon Reeve
Unspun World: The UK's new EU deal
The Media Show: Full-time for Lineker at the BBC
Unspun World: What's next for Gaza?
The Media Show: Misinformation and the India-Pakistan Standoff
Unspun World: Vladimir Putin’s game plan
The Media Show: Tina Brown on her fight for quality journalism
The Global Jigsaw: The Kurdish issue: Part three
Unspun World: What part did Trump play in Canada’s election?
The Media Show: Piers Morgan’s YouTube bet
The Global Jigsaw: The Kurdish issue: Part two
The Media Show: Washington leak culture
The Global Jigsaw: The Kurdish issue: Part one
The Media Show: Britain's steel crisis and SNL’s leap across the Atlantic
Trump's tariffs explained
The Media Show: Trade wars, tariffs, and Trump’s media strategy
The Media Show: What teenage boys are watching online
Unspun World: How might Gaza be governed in the future?
The Media Show: Are pirated books powering AI?
Unspun World: Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin negotiate over a ceasefire in Ukraine
The Media Show: Investigating Michael Jackson
Can Germany's ailing economy get back on track?
The Media Show: Revealing Facebook
Unspun World: How will Donald Trump’s tariffs affect global markets?
Unspun World: Can Ukraine continue to rely on US support?
The Media Show: Jeff Bezos' Washington Post shift
Unspun World: Is Russia’s war in Ukraine nearing an endgame?
The Media Show: Mehdi Hasan on journalism, opinion, and independence
The Media Show: Diplomacy and the media and 100 years of The New Yorker
Unspun World: Is Western support for Ukraine holding firm?
The Media Show: Understanding the attention economy
Unspun World: Donald Trump’s whirlwind start to his second term
The Media Show: Bill Gates on tech and politics
Unspun World: How will Trump's second presidency affect the war in Ukraine?
The Media Show: China’s AI rise
Mindu Hornick: Interview with an Auschwitz survivor
Unspun World: What's behind the growing tensions between China and Taiwan?
The Media Show: Prince Harry’s legal victory and TikTok’s future
The Media Show: Reporting the LA fires
The Media Show: Meta drops fact-checkers and Grand Theft Auto 6 hype builds
The Media Show: media trends in 2025
The Global Jigsaw: The language of war: Ukraine
The Media Show: Jeans, cars, deodorant
The Global Jigsaw: The language of war: Russia
The Media Show: CNN’s Syria report controversy
The Media Show: Reporting Syria and reaction to Luigi Mangione
The Media Show: Reddit's rise
The Media Show: BBC presenter defection
Unspun World: Could Russia's war with Ukraine escalate?
The Media Show: Jake Paul v Mike Tyson
Unspun World: What can the world expect from a second Trump term?
The Media Show: US Election and its impact on media
Unspun World: What does the US election tell us about America?
The Media Show: Trump's winning media strategy
The Global Jigsaw: Russia’s “special demographic operation”
Unspun World: What will Iran do now?
The Media Show: Ballots, bias and big tech
The Global Jigsaw: Turkey’s anti-LGBT drive
Unspun World: The Middle East: The regional perspective
The Media Show: The king of reality TV
Unspun World: Israel's Middle East strategy
The Media Show: ISIS Prisons Museum
The Global Jigsaw: Yemen: A frozen conflict
Unspun World: The Middle East, a year on from the October 7th attacks
The Media Show: Reporting from inside Gaza
Unspun World: What will Iran's strategy be?
The Media Show: Secrets of The Sidemen
The Global Jigsaw: Yemen: A tale of three cities
The Media Show: Reporting the Predator at Harrods
The Media Show: Trump’s Pet-eating Conspiracy Theory
The Media Show: Russia’s alleged influencer propaganda plot
The Media Show: Why Korean TV rules the world
The Media Show: Telegram founder arrested
The Media Show - TV’s Hidden Dilemma
US Supreme Court
The Media Show: Social media as crime scene
What is the United Nations?
The Global Jigsaw: The Taliban’s war on women
The Media Show: Online rumours and real-world consequences
Big Tech – too big to hide from?
The Media Show: Who will inherit the Murdoch empire?
The global arms trade
The Media Show: Can memes win the US election?
Why is the Gulf Stream and AMOC so important to our climate?
The Media Show: Reporting from the scene of the Trump shooting
What makes a good peace mediator?
The Media Show: The war reporter who stopped to help
The Media Show: Reporting Biden’s Health
Unspun World: The UK election
The Media Show: Julian Assange - journalist or activist?
Unspun World: Is Ukraine preparing for a deal?
The Media Show: How podcasts took over the world
The Global Jigsaw: The evolution of the Islamic State Group
Unspun World: Israel's war cabinet fragments
The Media Show: How to interview a Prime Minister
Unspun World: The new threats to global peace and security
The Media Show: The Business of News
Unspun World: Will the UK's election change its place in the world?
The Media Show: Is this the TikTok election?
Unspun World: How has the Russia-China relationship changed?
The Media Show: Reporting ringside at Usyk v Fury
Unspun World: Why are US-Israel relations at an historic low?
The Media Show: Netflix and the Baby Reindeer Fallout
The Global Jigsaw: How China sees itself in Africa
Unspun World: What is Israel's plan for Gaza?
The Media Show: Reporting the US campus protests
What is the dark web?
The Global Jigsaw: Turkey's foothold in Africa
The Media Show: Behind the information iron curtain
Goodbye to the International Space Station
The Global Jigsaw: Deconstructing Iran’s ‘Axis of Resistance’: Part two
The Media Show: Secrets of the Celebrity Interview
Nuclear weapons - which countries have them?
The Global Jigsaw: How drones have changed war
The Media Show: How Taylor Swift conquered the media
How does the New York Stock Exchange work?
The Global Jigsaw: Sudan: A year of war
The Media Show: Building Trump's social media app
The Global Jigsaw: Deconstructing Iran’s 'Axis of Resistance': Part one
The Media Show: Fear, threats and intimidation
The Global Jigsaw: Moscow attack: disinfo wars
The Global Jigsaw: Contested waters: Helmand
Unspun World: What's next for President Putin after winning re-election?
The Global Jigsaw - Contested waters: Crimea
Unspun World: Has Russia turned the tide in its war in Ukraine?
The Global Jigsaw: What hope for Haiti?
Unspun World: What's life like on the ground in Gaza and the West Bank?
Unspun World: Is a ceasefire in Gaza within reach?
Unspun World: What Alexei Navalny's death means for Vladimir Putin's grip on Russia
Unspun World: Can Israel win its war in Gaza?
Unspun World: How Russia's economy has survived despite sanctions
Unspun World: Is Ukraine losing Western support?
Unspun World: Is the war in Gaza slipping away from Israel?
Unspun World: What's the West's strategy for the Houthis?
What does the World Bank do?
What is sportswashing?
What is BRICS?
How does the World Health Organization work?
Unspun World: Can anything break the stalemate in the Ukraine war?
What is Five Eyes?
Unspun World: How migration is changing European politics
Unspun World: A pause in fighting in Gaza
The Global Jigsaw: Global perspectives on the Israel Gaza war
Unspun World: Can the US and China get along?
The Global Jigsaw: Israel and Gaza special
Unspun World: What's Israel's endgame in Gaza?
Unspun World: Tensions on the Israel-Lebanon border
Unspun World: Will Israel invade Gaza?
The Global Jigsaw: Who’ll be Argentina’s next president?
Unspun World: Israel declares war on Hamas after deadly attack
Unspun World: Are democracies hindering the fight against climate change?
Unspun World: Can anyone in Russia challenge Putin now?
The Global Jigsaw: Wagner after Prigozhin
Unspun World: What has changed for women in Iran, a year after Mahsa Amini's death?
The Global Jigsaw: Grain deal special
Could Puerto Rico become America's 51st state?
Kosovo–Serbia relations
What is Nato?
Venezuela crisis
The EU
Who are the Rohingyas?
What is a war crime?
EUnspun World: Is it time to return looted art?
Haiti's gang crisis
Unspun World: Is Putin's time up?
How Lebanon’s economy collapsed
Unspun World: Xi Jinping: President or emperor?
What is the Wagner Group?
Unspun World: Who can challenge Trump?
Unspun World: What's it like reporting on the war from inside Russia?
Unspun World: Can the US transform the world's economy?
Unspun World: Could AI outsmart humanity?
Unspun World: Is Ukraine's counter-offensive a turning point?
Introducing The Explanation
How the Good Friday Agreement helped bring peace to Northern Ireland
Ethiopia, Eritrea and border wars
Sudan’s journey from independence to revolution
How Yemen has been engulfed by civil war
Who are the Uyghurs and why are they being persecuted?
Cuba–United States relations
Roe v Wade and abortion in America
How Syria's peaceful uprising became a civil war
Understanding the long history between Russia and Ukraine
Understanding South Africa’s continuing quest for equality
Understanding the power that Saudi Arabia wields
Understanding relations between Taiwan and China
Understanding the rise of Boko Haram
Understanding North Korea and the Kim dynasty
Understanding the Islamic State group
Understanding how Russia has changed under Putin
Afghanistan: Women, girls and their rights
Understanding Iran: Reconciling religion and democracy
Israeli-Palestinian relations
Understanding democracy in Hong Kong