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