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The biggest stories, told in depth, daily. Join the world's best journalists to uncover what really matters. Hosted by Manveen Rana and Luke Jones. Published seven days a week and ready for you every morning.

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The city of Ranya– a small town in Northern Iraq– is more than 2,500 miles from Calais and Dunkirk. But it has a near monopoly on the people smuggling gangs that traffic migrants across the English Channel. The Times visited Ranya to meet the kingpins and ask: how did one village become responsible for Britain’s small boats crisis?

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Guest: Shayma Bakht, reporter, The Times. 

Host: Luke Jones. 

Producer: Micaela Arneson.

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Read more: I met the smuggling kingpins behind the deadly Channel crossings

Further listening: ‘Repugnant’ or necessary? The new asylum rules

Clips: Getty Images, DRM News. 

Photo: Times Media Ltd.

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INVESTIGATION: Meet the smuggling kingpins behind the deadly Channel crossings

In this special two part podcast, Whitehall editor at The Sunday Times, Gabriel Pogrund, is joined by the preeminent investigative journalist and author Patrick Radden Keefe.

On a cold November night in 2019, 19 year old Zac Brettler jumped to his death from the balcony of a luxury London apartment. Police concluded it was suicide, however, under Radden Keefe's forensic microscope together with Gabriel's own Sunday Times investigation, serious questions are raised about what really happened that night, and whether it was suicide after all. It's a tale rooted in London's criminal underground, and now the subject of Radden Keefe's latest book, London Falling.

In episode 2: What really happened on the night Zac died? Gabriel gets hold of some crucial new evidence which calls into question the Met Police's investigation.

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Host: Gabriel Pogrund - Whitehall editor at The Sunday Times.

Guest: Patrick Radden Keefe.

Producer: Dave Creasey.

Executive Producer: Kate Ford

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Read more: The dead teenager, the lying suspect and the black box that proves it

Photo: The Times, design by Cecilia Tombesi.

Click here to buy London Falling at the times bookshop.

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London Falling Part 2: The Truth - The Sunday Story

In this special two part podcast, Whitehall editor at The Sunday Times, Gabriel Pogrund, is joined by the preeminent investigative journalist and author Patrick Radden Keefe.

On a cold November night in 2019, 19 year old Zac Brettler jumped to his death from the balcony of a luxury London apartment. Police concluded it was suicide, however, under Radden Keefe's forensic microscope together with Gabriel's own Sunday Times investigation, serious questions are raised about what really happened that night, and whether it was suicide after all. It's a tale rooted in London's criminal underground, and now the subject of Radden Keefe's latest book, London Falling.

In this episode we hear about how a young man, born into a wealthy family, become embroiled with a notorious London gangster.

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

Host: Gabriel Pogrund - Whitehall editor at The Sunday Times

Guest: Patrick Radden Keefe

Producer: Dave Creasey.

Executive Producer: Kate Ford

We want to hear from you - email: thestory@thetimes.com

Read more: The dead teenager, the lying suspect and the black box that proves it

Photo: The Times, design by Cecilia Tombesi.

Click here to buy London Falling at the times bookshop.

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London Falling Part 1: The Fall - The Saturday Story

For decades UK sofas have contained chemicals linked to cancer, birth defects and infertility because of uniquely strict fire rules. Up to a fifth of their foam consists of a chemical not used in any other country’s sofas, but is now classed “probably carcinogenic to humans” by the World Health Organisation. So how deadly is your sofa, why is the UK an outlier and are things set to improve?

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: Martina Lees, senior property reporter, The Sunday Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Edward Drummond

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Read more: Sitting comfortably? Your sofa is among the most toxic on Earth 

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INVESTIGATION: Is your sofa toxic?

After mounting hostilities and Trump’s threats that ‘a whole civilization will die’ unless Iran backs down, Tehran and Washington have agreed to a two week ceasefire. Now, they’re discussing a ten-point plan to permanently end the war. But is this the end of the fighting or just a pause? What’s in the peace plan? And has this conflict taught Iran that it can hold the world to ransom?

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: Catherine Philp, World Affairs Editor, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers: Olivia Case and Sophie McNulty.

We want to hear from you - email: thestory@thetimes.com

Read more: What’s in Iran’s ten-point ceasefire plan? Trump’s stumbling blocks examined

Further listening: The West Bank land grab no one’s watching

Clips: BBC, CNN, AP, CSPAN, NDTV, The Mary Trump Podcast. 

Photo: Getty Images.

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Trump's ceasefire with Iran - what’s in it and what next

With the world’s attention fixed on the war in Iran, Israeli settler gangs are rapidly and violently expanding outposts in the West Bank – seemingly with impunity. So, what’s it like on the ground? Is the Israeli government softening to the ‘extremist’ settler movement? And will settlers ever be held accountable? 

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Guest: Richard Spencer, world affairs correspondent, The Times

Host: Manveen Rana

Producers: Sophie McNulty, Taryn Siegel

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Read more: Israel’s settlers seize their chance to snatch land in West Bank

Further listening: The Board of Peace: the new UN or Trump’s vanity project?

Clips: CNN, France 24, BBC, CBS, ABC 7, Middle East Eye.

Photo: Getty Images.

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The West Bank land grab no one’s watching

Thousands of pensioners invested their life savings into London Capital and Finance before it was revealed to be the UK’s biggest ever Ponzi scheme. Now, new Times reporting shows how the millions in investments were lavishly spent by LCF’s founders. So how was a scheme on this scale allowed to take root in the first place?

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Guests: 

 • Jim Armitage, contributing editor, The Sunday Times.
 • Antonia Summer, investor in LCF.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Harry Stott, Callum Martin.

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Read more: Inside Britain’s biggest Ponzi scheme: where did £237m go?

Clips: Rehman Chisti MP / Facebook.

Photo: Getty Images.

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INVESTIGATION: Inside Britain’s biggest Ponzi scheme

Hungary goes to the polls on Sunday and for the first time in sixteen years, Donald Trump’s right-wing ally Viktor Orbán might lose his iron grip on power. But who is this man who’s ruled the country for so long? What do we know about the man who could unseat him? And what would a loss for Orbán mean for the populist right and for Europe as a whole?

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

Guests: 

 • Peter Conradi, Europe editor, The Sunday Times
 • Victor Sebestyen, journalist and author covering Eastern Europe & Russia

Host: Luke Jones

Producer: Sophie McNulty, Olivia Case

We want to hear from you - email: thestory@thetimes.com

Read more: Who is Peter Magyar, the man hoping to oust Viktor Orban?

Clips: Bloomberg, DRM News, Péter Magyar - YouTube

Photo: Getty Images, The Times.

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Will voters back "the poster boy for the far-right"?

It's the trial rocking France's intelligence service. Two guards who had always dreamt of going under cover were allegedly tricked into a plot to kill a ‘Mossad agent’, who was nothing of the sort. It's an unbelievable tale of freemasons, fake missions - and real violence, where personal grudges are dressed up as matters of national security.

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Guest: Adam Sage, Paris correspondent, The Times. 

Host: Rosie Wright.

Producer: Dave Creasey.

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Read more: Freemasons, bored spies and a murder-for-hire scandal at France’s MI6

Photo: Getty Images.

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The contract killing scandal rocking France’s MI6 - The Sunday Story

When The Times foreign correspondent Marc Bennetts moved to Russia in 1997, there was hope for a new future for the country. But over the next 25 years, he witnessed the rise of Vladimir Putin and the erosion of civil liberties. In his new book, The Descent: Witnessing Russia’s Spiral into Madness Under Putin, Marc charts how one man remade Russia in his own paranoid image.

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: Marc Bennetts, foreign correspondent, The Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana. 

Producer: Micaela Arneson. 

We want to hear from you - email: thestory@thetimes.com

Read more: Lies and fear: my life under the Kremlin’s propaganda machine

Further listening: ‘I took a grenade blast to escape’: Russian deserters speak to The Times

Clips: Channel One Russia, Educational Video Group, NBC News, ITN, Times Now World, Dot’s Eye. 

Photo: Getty Images.

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The descent into madness under Putin

Polymarket and Kalshi have become two of the fastest-growing online platforms in the prediction market, hosting bets where people can wager on the outcome of events, including on the conflict in Iran. But some observers have raised concerns that unusually precise, well-timed bets could point to insider dealings. So what exactly are prediction markets? And what does it mean for society when you can bet on almost anything?

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: Chris Stokel-Walker, technology journalist and author.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Sophie McNulty & Julia Webster.

We want to hear from you - email: thestory@thetimes.com

Read more: Dollars and death threats: the dark side of prediction markets

Further listening: How AI helped Trump attack Iran

Clips: FRENCH 24 English, CNN, 60 Minutes, CBS News, Fox 10 Phoenix, iSpot, The Times, Coinbase. 

Photo: Getty Images.

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People are betting on war. Here’s why it matters

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