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HIGHLIGHTLeaving Afghanistan
After 20 years of war, in August 2021 the US and its allies ceded control of Afghanistan to the Taliban.
Over five episodes for Stories of Our Times, presenter Manveen Rana looks back at the country’s past and forward to its uncertain future.
Featuring veteran Times war correspondent Anthony Loyd, diplomatic correspondent Catherine Philp, former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani, and a Nato interpreter being hunted by the Taliban in Kabul.
Times war correspondent Anthony Loyd in Takhar province, Afghanistan, November 2000
For Stories of Our Times
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December 2021
- Dec 1, 2021 The Omicron variant: What we know so far
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November 2021
- Nov 25, 2021 The fourth wave: What’s behind Europe’s Covid riots
- Nov 24, 2021 Can the NHS cope this winter?
- Nov 15, 2021 The autism research row: Genetics under fire
- Nov 8, 2021 ‘Soldier X’: What we know so far about the killing of Agnes Wanjiru
- Nov 3, 2021 The Trump voters building a new state in the American Redoubt
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October 2021
- Oct 28, 2021 The pandemic: The best and worst case scenarios for this winter
- Oct 14, 2021 Tim Shipman on Boris Johnson’s big gamble
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August 2021
- Aug 26, 2021 Who are the ‘new’ Taliban?
- Aug 23, 2021 The deal that set the stage for a Taliban victory
- Aug 17, 2021 ‘The Taliban will kill me’: The interpreter trying to flee Kabul
- Aug 12, 2021 A brief history of the climate crisis
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July 2021
- Jul 27, 2021 Leaving Afghanistan (Pt 2): Handing victory to the Taliban
- Jul 26, 2021 Leaving Afghanistan (Pt 1): Our correspondent’s diaries from the 20-year war
- Jul 22, 2021 Mass shootings: This is America
- Jul 5, 2021 The new Cold War: What really happened in the Black Sea?
- Jul 1, 2021 Next slide, please: The enigmatic Chris Whitty
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June 2021
- Jun 29, 2021 The fall of Matt Hancock
- Jun 18, 2021 Diana, Bashir, and the future of the BBC
- Jun 7, 2021 The third wave: Should the June unlocking go ahead?
- Jun 3, 2021 Why the Wuhan lab leak theory is being taken seriously
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May 2021
- May 31, 2021 Failures of State: The Dominic Cummings evidence
- May 26, 2021 The secret life of Bill Gates
- May 13, 2021 What next for Scottish independence?
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April 2021
- Apr 30, 2021 Anatomy of a No 10 scandal
- Apr 5, 2021 Three incredible tales of scientific progress
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March 2021
- Mar 23, 2021 General Sir Nick Carter on the threats facing Britain
- Mar 17, 2021 Sarah Everard: How her vigil galvanised a movement
- Mar 12, 2021 Failures of State: The origins of Covid-19
- Mar 9, 2021 Failures of State: How Britain made the same mistake twice
- Mar 8, 2021 Failures of State: The inside story of Britain’s battle with coronavirus
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February 2021
- Feb 18, 2021 How Russia’s vaccine disinformation war backfired
- Feb 17, 2021 A lockdown exit strategy: Lessons from Israel and Australia
- Feb 11, 2021 Inside Porton Down: Britain’s top secret laboratory
- Feb 8, 2021 GameStop: A very modern fable
- Feb 4, 2021 How Brussels bungled the vaccine
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January 2021
- Jan 21, 2021 Inauguration Day: Two presidents, two speeches, and an uncivil war
- Jan 20, 2021 The Vaccine: What if the virus mutates again?
- Jan 15, 2021 The Vaccine: When will we all get it?
- Jan 12, 2021 Could the NHS be overwhelmed in two weeks?
- Jan 7, 2021 Police using facial recognition technology
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December 2020
- Dec 28, 2020 Tom Whipple’s year in Covid: from Wuhan to lockdown to vaccine
- Dec 7, 2020 Did pollution kill Ella?
- Dec 3, 2020 What are the options for a Covid Christmas?
- Dec 2, 2020 Changing gender: A landmark judgement in the Keira Bell case
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November 2020
- Nov 30, 2020 Covid Cronyism
- Nov 16, 2020 All change in No 10: The battle for the soul of Boris Johnson
- Nov 13, 2020 The Vaccine: The first glimmer of hope
- Nov 10, 2020 Investigation: Disinformation and Hunter Biden
- Nov 4, 2020 US election special: No clear winner – what now?
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October 2020
- Oct 30, 2020 US election: Are the polls right?
- Oct 26, 2020 Investigation: Inside Russia’s disinformation war
- Oct 19, 2020 Westminster and a country in tiers
- Oct 15, 2020 Could Covid-19 change universities forever?
- Oct 9, 2020 The health of the president and the constitution
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September 2020
- Sep 28, 2020 The Covid Act: a rebellion
- Sep 24, 2020 Agent Sonya: the Soviet spy who came in from the Cotswolds
- Sep 14, 2020 The Second Wave
- Sep 10, 2020 Dr Fauci: America’s doctor on working with Trump
- Sep 3, 2020 The inside story of Labour under Corbyn
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August 2020
- Aug 25, 2020 Tracking and tracing the rise of Dido Harding
- Aug 24, 2020 Insight investigation: The curious case of the Cheshire killings
- Aug 19, 2020 A conversation with the President of Afghanistan
- Aug 12, 2020 The Coronavirus Recession
- Aug 7, 2020 Who Killed CJ Davis?
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July 2020
- Jul 27, 2020 Is ‘shielding’ ending too soon?
- Jul 21, 2020 Scotland’s zero-Covid strategy
- Jul 16, 2020 Dominic Cummings vs Whitehall
- Jul 13, 2020 100 days of Starmer
- Jul 6, 2020 Investigating the true origins of Covid-19
- Jul 3, 2020 Sir David King: are we easing lockdown too soon?
- Jul 2, 2020 Richard Desmond: The man, the mogul, the scandal
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June 2020
- Jun 23, 2020 Aasmah Mir: The psychological impact of racism on black families
- Jun 12, 2020 Bristol: A tale of two statues
- Jun 9, 2020 Freedom under threat? The struggle for the soul of Hong Kong
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May 2020
- May 29, 2020 The mind (and blogs) of Dominic Cummings
- May 28, 2020 A mayor in Prague and a Russian poison plot
- May 22, 2020 Murder in the Kingdom in the Sky
- May 15, 2020 Could testing in an Italian village save the world?
- May 14, 2020 ‘Stay Alert’? The psychology of changing lockdown messages
- May 11, 2020 How to recover from a coronavirus recession
- May 6, 2020 The US and China: the coronavirus conspiracy theories
- May 1, 2020 Policing a lockdown
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April 2020
- Apr 28, 2020 Boris Johnson’s return to No 10
- Apr 24, 2020 Could the tech giants get us out of lockdown?
- Apr 22, 2020 Inside The Sunday Times investigation into coronavirus and Boris Johnson
- Apr 20, 2020 When staying at home is not an option
- Apr 17, 2020 Human origins: who do we think we are?
- Apr 15, 2020 The future of Julian Assange
- Apr 9, 2020 President Trump and the virus
- Apr 6, 2020 Keir Starmer: the man, the party, the crisis
- Apr 2, 2020 Fighting the lockdown with a new volunteer army
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March 2020
- Mar 31, 2020 Lessons in isolation from Antarctica
- Mar 26, 2020 Lessons from a past pandemic
- Mar 23, 2020 Has the government done enough?
- Mar 17, 2020 The Virus: When the doctors get sick
- Mar 16, 2020 The Virus: The race for a vaccine
Highlights from earlier work
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2019
- Nov 19, 2019 Nobel prize-winner Esther Duflo on Polarised Nov 19, 2019
- Aug 7, 2019 Hope vs Fear, Live from Wilderness Festival Aug 7, 2019
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2018
- Aug 28, 2018 Exploring divisions Aug 28, 2018
- Jun 29, 2018 Polarised: Inequality and Generation Wealth Jun 29, 2018
- May 22, 2018 Polarised May 22, 2018
- Mar 24, 2018 The Charity Business – Live Mar 24, 2018
- Mar 14, 2018 Gary Younge on ‘Middletown, America’ Mar 14, 2018
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2017
- Oct 8, 2017 CLASS on Class miniseries Oct 8, 2017
- Oct 8, 2017 BBC Tomorrow's World Live - Move to Mars Oct 8, 2017
- Apr 16, 2017 Is Labour really repeating the 1980s? Apr 16, 2017
- Jan 11, 2017 The two Trumps, Labour, and immigration Jan 11, 2017
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2016
- Nov 27, 2016 Paul Mason: Labour is ‘an exoskeleton for working class people’ Nov 27, 2016
- Oct 7, 2016 Podcast production showreel, 2016 Oct 7, 2016
- Jun 21, 2016 Weekly Economics Podcast with Caroline Lucas MP and John Hilary Jun 21, 2016
- Feb 8, 2016 What does the junior doctors’ strike have to do with economics? Feb 8, 2016