Today in Focus
By The Guardian
Hosted by Michael Safi and Helen Pidd, Today in Focus brings you closer to Guardian journalism. Combining storytelling with insightful analysis and personal testimonies, the podcast takes you behind the headlines for a deeper understanding of the news, every weekday. And, in the run up to the US Election, Lucy Hough presents US Election Extra, a daily series of short updates, running alongside the regular Today in Focus podcast. Today in Focus is unmatched in both scope and depth, delivering analysis and storytelling from right across the planet. With a global network of over 900 journalists and five dedicated editions covering news in the US, UK, Australia, Europe, and beyond, the Guardian offers comprehensive reporting across every continent. Most recently we have introduced new correspondents in the Caribbean, South America and Africa.
Latest episode
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Yasser’s story: the Syrian refugee who lived with me
Helen Pidd speaks to her former lodger, Yasser, a Syrian refugee contemplating moving back home -
Can a steel town survive if its furnaces are turned off?
Port Talbot in Wales is defined by its huge steelworks. But in January Tata Steel announced it was ending primary steelmaking there. George McDonagh charts a year that could change the town for ever -
The prince and the ‘spy’
Prince Andrew is in trouble again, this time for meeting a Chinese businessman accused of spying for China. Dan Sabbagh and David Pegg report -
The reformed jihadi? Al-Jolani, the new most powerful man in Syria
International security correspondent Jason Burke explores the life of Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, and asks whether he has genuinely reformed from his hardline al-Qaida past -
‘The most beautiful word in the dictionary’: Donald Trump’s tariff plan
Guardian US business editor Dominic Rushe explains why the president-elect wants to impose tariffs on imports, and the risks it poses to the economy. Senior China correspondent Amy Hawkins talks through the potential of a wider retaliatory trade war … -
Revisited: Have open marriages gone mainstream?
From therapy sessions to bookshelves, interest in non-monogamous relationships seem to be soaring -
Revisited: The Unabomber and his ongoing influence
Ted Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people, died in prison last year. But his manifesto promoting violent rebellion against the modern world continues to inspire copycat attacks -
The town that fears losing its high street to climate change
Flooding in Tenbury Wells used to be a once in a generation event, now its happening increasingly frequently. Jessica Murray reports -
Inside Damascus after the fall of Bashar al-Assad
Foreign correspondent William Christou travels to Damascus, hours after Syria’s decades-long dictator Bashar al-Assad is ousted from power, and asks whether the country’s thirteen-year civil war can finally come to an end -
How Trump’s victory sparked a crypto boom
Guardian US tech editor, Blake Montgomery, explains what the president-elect’s embrace of the cryptocurrency world might mean for his second term
