Christina Lamb on cobalt mining in the Congo
This episode starts in the mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where workers as young as nine risk their lives to feed the world’s growing hung...
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Go behind the story on some of the biggest stories from the Times and the Sunday Times. From Anthony Loyd on Shamima Begum to Jonathan Calvert on how How Qatar bought the World Cup.
Decca Aitkenhead on the future of pop
Billie Eilish is the home-schooled teenage superstar described by many as the future of pop. In an astonishingly honest conversation with our chief in...
Jonathan Calvert on how Qatar bought the World Cup
How did a country with almost no football infrastructure or tradition, a high terrorism risk and searing summer temperatures become the host for the 2...
Tim Shipman on government chaos
We kicked off 2019 with Theresa May’s Brexit deal getting the thumbs down in parliament and ended it with Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister fo...
Catherine Philp on the Yemen crisis
What is it like to be one of the first journalists to bear witness to an unfolding crisis? Four years after the Saudi-led coalition entered the confli...
Richard Spencer on the fall of Raqqa
It took an extraordinary military blitz to rout Isis from its de facto capital, Raqqa. The trauma and terror of those final days were witnessed first ...
Paul Morgan-Bentley on forced marriage in the UK
Sometimes scandals happen under our noses. Over several months our head of investigations set about exposing the government’s complicity in facilitati...
Anthony Loyd on finding Shamima Begum
Four years ago Shamima Begum, then aged 15, ran away from her home in Bethnal Green, London, to marry an Isis fighter. Nothing more was heard from her...