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The Times

Drowning in news? Let The Story guide you. 

Each morning, hosts Manveen Rana and Luke Jones bring you today's most important story, told by the journalists who know what really happened. 

In depth, honest, and mixed in with exclusive reports and groundbreaking investigations.

Discover the story behind the story with the flagship podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times.

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The Story

Yesterday Nigel Farage unveiled Reform UK’s plans to tackle the issue of small boats and illegal migration. It's a problem that's driven European politics for almost a decade, we look to the continent for lessons they've learned on how it could be solved.

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Guest: Oliver Moody, Berlin correspondent, The Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana. 

Producer: Edith Rousselot. 

Read more: Look to Sweden for bold policies on migrants

Clips: Times Radio.

Photo: Getty Images. 

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Hard borders, harder politics: Europe's migration crisis

With the prospect of peace in Ukraine looking increasingly clouded following Donald Trump's attempts at inter-continental deal-making, the former head of the UK military, General Sir Nick Carter, tells Tom Newton Dunn that the US president doesn't understand his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Can Europe's leaders achieve some kind of security guarantee without US boots on the ground to back it up? And does Trump understand the lessons of history?

Guest: General Sir Nick Carter, Former UK Chief of the Defence Staff.

Host: Calum Macdonald and Tom Newton Dunn.

Producer: Sophie McNulty.

Clips: Fox News.

Photo: Getty Images.

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Ukraine needs to become an 'indigestible porcupine'

Ron Hubbard is the biggest builder of underground bunkers, giving security to wealthy buyers who fear the world is coming to an end. And business is booming

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Written by: Bevan Hurley.

Read by: Edward Drummond.

Producers: Edward Drummond and Kate Lamble.

Photo: James Breeden for the Times. 

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Meet the man selling ‘doom’ to Zuckerberg and the Tate brothers - the Long Weekend Story

Bobby Cunningham was 31 when he became Head of Security at Wandsworth Prison, Britain’s most notorious jail, where he was tasked with fighting corruption. The Sunday Times's Whitehall editor Gabriel Pogrund reveals his dealings with organised crime.

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Guest: Gabriel Pogrund

Host: Manveen Rana

Producers: Olivia Case, Edward Drummond, Shabnam Grewal.

Read more: Revealed: the prison chief linked to organised crime

Clips: BBC, Sky News.

Photo: Getty Images.

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The prison chief linked to organised crime - the Sunday Story

Chris Brain, the leader of a Church of England ‘sex cult’ known s the Nine O'Clock Service, has been found guilty of 17 charges of indecent assault, three decades after its collapse. Why did the Church fail to learn lessons from the scandal?

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Guest: Sean O'Neill, Senior Writer, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Edward Drummond.

Read more: Chris Brain: ‘charismatic priest’ behind the Nine O’Clock Service

Clips: BBC.

Photo: Getty Images.

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Inside the Church of England's 'sex cult' - the Saturday Story

Pro-democracy campaigner, media mogul and British citizen Jimmy Lai has been imprisoned in China for five years and on trial for two. As the closing statements are made, what will happen to one of China’s most prominent critics? And can the UK government - or Donald Trump - step in to free him?

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Guest: Cindy Yu, Columnist and Contributing Editor, The Times and The Sunday Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Olivia Case.

Clips: BBC, Hoover Institute / YouTube, Sky, The Guardian, CNN, FOX, AP, Max Media, Asia, The Hong Konger: Jimmy Lai's Extraordinary Struggle for Freedom / Ron Holwerda / Acton Institute. 

Photo: Getty Images. 

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The Brit standing up to China: can Starmer save Jimmy Lai?

Nvidia's the first company to be worth more than $4trilllion, developers are being offered salaries in the billions, and companies that don’t even have a product are securing investments beyond their wildest dreams. Yet there were reports this week that Meta could downsize its AI division. Our resident silicon valley watcher says there's an AI bubble, and looks back to the dot com boom and bust, for answers on what happens when it bursts.

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Guest: Danny Fortson, US West Coast correspondent, The Sunday Times.

Host: Luke Jones.

Producer: Olivia Case.

Read more: Silicon Valley’s AI-fuelled madness has echoes of the dotcom crash

Listen to Danny every week on The Times Tech Podcast

Clips: First Post, YouTube / @InvestDive, Bloomberg, YouTube / Meet McKay, CNBC, YouTube / 100xEngineers, BBC, YouTube / Budding, Pets.com, MSNBC, YouTube / @scalacodeIN, Stanford eCorner, CNET, YouTube / @fortune.

Photo: Getty Images.

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'There's an AI bubble' - but what happens when it bursts?

The Times can reveal the English Defence League founder is charging around £28 a minute for videos giving practical advice to supporters on migrant hotel protests and anti-Islam activism. The private consultations raise concerns about the potential for radicalisation at a time of heightened tensions surrounding immigration issues. 

This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory

Guest: Shanti Das, Senior Investigations Reporter, The Times.

Host: Calum MacDonald.

Producer: Shabnam Grewal.

Read more: Tommy Robinson charging £28 a minute as personal coach to far right

Clips: Minnect, The Express, The Telegraph.

Photo: Times illustration/Getty Images. 

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SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Tommy Robinson's far-right coaching

Zelensky landed in Washington DC, accompanied by European leaders, to try and stem the fallout from the Alaska summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Will Ukraine be forced to cede territory to secure peace? And how is that going down in Kyiv?

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Guests:

 • Professor Mark Galeotti, Historian, Times Contributor, Director of Mayak Intelligence and Author of 
We Need to Talk about Putin. • Anthony Loyd, Special Correspondent, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers: Taryn Siegel and Edith Rousselot.

Read more: The ball is in Zelensky’s court but he is in an impossible position

Clips: Fox News, Bloomberg TV, Associated Press, The Guardian.

Photo: Getty Images.

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Has Trump already handed Putin victory?

As the Oasis reunion supernova leaves the UK to conquer the rest of the world, the success is beyond anyone's dreams -- including Oasis. How did this happen? Will Hodgkinson tells us about his many chats with the Gallagher brothers over the years, and his theories on how they finally reunited -- and what happened with the dynamic pricing debacle.

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Guest: Will Hodgkinson, Chief Rock and Pop Critic, The Times.

Host: Luke Jones.

Producer: Taryn Siegel.

Read more: Oasis in Cardiff review — still mad for it after all these years.

Clips: BluntMag, THEMattPope, Oasis, OasisOfficialMusic, Matt Ridsdill-smith, MTV, milesth944.

Photo: Getty Images.

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The record-breaking return of Oasis

Riots have engulfed Britain after the stabbing of three girls in Southport. The far-right are being blamed for inciting the violence and disorder - but how has the far-right gained momentum and what does it stand for? 

This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory

Guest: Dominic Kennedy, Investigations Editor, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana. 

Clips: Sky News, ITV News, BBC News, BBC Question Time, X/@TRobinsonNewEra.

Get in touch: thestory@thetimes.com

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