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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 Thirlwall Inquiry into how Lucy Letby was able to murder babies at the Countess of Chester hospital has released a damning report. It found the hospital could have prevented at least three of the murders, if not for evidence of a pernicious “them and us” culture and a lack of safeguards. But what does this report mean for the hospital authorities? And will it have any bearing on Letby's attempts at an appeal?

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Guest: Sian Bradley, Northern correspondent, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers: Micaela Arneson, Eleanor Harrison-Dengate.

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Read more: Lucy Letby inquiry: staff could have stopped three murders 

Further listening: Is there ‘new evidence’ in the Lucy Letby case?

Clips: BBC, The Telegraph, The Mirror, True Criminals podcast, The Guardian, The Thirlwall Inquiry. 

Photo: Getty Images.

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How Lucy Letby’s hospital failed her victims

The Iranian-backed Houthis have seized large swathes of territory in Yemen and taken control of the Bab al-Mandeb strait, a key shipping corridor between Asia and Europe. About 12 percent of global trade passes through the strait, including huge amounts of oil, so the move has sent energy prices skyrocketing. But, who are the Houthis? What’s their aim? And with regional powers wary of getting dragged into yet another war, who can stop them?

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Guest: Dr. Elisabeth Kendall, president of Girton College, Cambridge, specialising in Arabic and Islamic studies.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers: Olivia Case, Robyn Simon.

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Read more: Houthis seized strait ‘without a fight’. Now they’re bracing for one

Further listening: Inside the West Bank crisis driving Britain to act

Clips: PBS, CBS, BBC, France 24, Fox News, ABC, CNN.

Photo: Mohammed Huwais for Getty Images.

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What the lightning Houthi advance means for the world

Warnings about the dangers of AI are reaching fever pitch, with cases of AI agents going rogue and attempts by malicious actors to use the technology to create biological weapons. Industry whistleblowers are sounding the alarm about a technology they claim could destroy humanity, while AI CEOs are themselves making proposals for a slow down. So how do they plan to stop this march towards oblivion? And how scared should we all be?

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Guest: Chris Dorrell, technology correspondent, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers: Harry Stott, Leo Danczak.

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Read more: Anthropic blocks ‘malicious’ AI use over biological weapons fear

Further listening: 'We don't understand the consequences' - Why I quit OpenAI - The Sunday Story

Clips: CBS, BBC, CNN, Bloomberg, NBC, Sky.

Photo: Tony Bell, Times illustration.

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Will superintelligent AI destroy humanity?

In June 2023, Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates were stabbed to death by Valdo Calocane, a paranoid schizophrenic who is currently serving an indefinite hospital order. The months-long public inquiry into their deaths has revealed a staggering number of failures by the authorities, and a widespread culture of denial and unaccountability. So what went wrong? And what lessons can be learned? 

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Guest: Fiona Hamilton, chief reporter, The Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana. 

Producers: Micaela Arneson, Jesse Fox.

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Read more: Nottingham attacks: ‘We have no faith in the police. We want justice’ 

Clips: BBC, Sky News, The Nottingham Inquiry. 

Photo: Richard Pohle, The Times. 

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Cover-ups, incompetence, and ‘a litany of failures’ exposed at the Nottingham inquiry - The Sunday Story

When Freddie Mercury, lead vocalist of Queen and one of the all-time greats of rock music, died from Aids in 1991, he left his beloved Kensington house to his lifelong companion Mary Austin. Once engaged to the superstar – before they both realised he preferred men – Austin was by his side from unglamorous beginnings to global stardom. She exclusively reads the story of their extraordinary relationship for the Story.

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Read by: Mary Austin

Producers: Sophie McNulty and Taryn Siegel.

Read More: My life with Freddie Mercury — by the best friend he nearly married 

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Clips: Live Aid, Queen Youtube. 

Music Excerpt: Queen - Lily of the Valley (Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC)

Photo: Getty Images.

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My life with Freddie Mercury - The Saturday Story

It’s 25 years since the 9/11 attacks; in the aftermath, the CIA hunted down those responsible – detaining suspects and subjecting them to ‘enhanced interrogation.’ One of the prisoners who was subjected to these tactics was Abu Zubaydah, who, at the time, was thought to be a top member of al-Qaeda. John Kiriakou, a former CIA operative who led the operation to capture Zubaydah, blew the whistle on the torture that prisoners like him experienced. As a result, Kiriakou went to prison, as well. Now, he’s asking President Trump for clemency. 

This episode contains descriptions of violence and torture. 

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Guest: Josie Ensor, chief US reporter, The Times

Host: Manveen Rana

Producer: Sophie McNulty

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Read more: I went to jail for exposing America’s darkest 9/11 secret. Trump should pardon me

Further listening: The 9/11 suspect - part 1

Clips: ABC News, C-SPAN, Cleared Hot Podcast.

Photo: Michael McCoy for The Times.

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He went to jail for exposing America’s darkest 9/11 secret. Should Trump pardon him?

The AfD’s thumping victory in the Saxony-Anhalt regional election has sent shockwaves across the German political landscape and left chancellor Friedrich Merz in a state of shock. With his popularity plummeting and further regional elections on the horizon, is Merz’s time almost up? And what does all of this tell us about the current state of German democracy? 

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Guest: Oliver Moody, Berlin correspondent, The Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers: Jesse Fox, Leo Danczak. 

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Read more: Firewall to keep AfD out is crumbling — how will Friedrich Merz react?

Further listening: Germany’s radical right is surging. Can they be stopped? 

Clips: BBC, CNN, Channel 4 News, T Online, CBC News, Phoenix, APT.

Photo: Getty Images.

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How the AfD became a nightmare for Friedrich Merz

Yesterday, foreign secretary Ed Miliband announced new sanctions on Israeli settlements in the West Bank in response to an increase in settler expansion and violence there. So what is really happening on the ground? Can UK sanctions prevent settlement expansion? And what does this mean for Britain’s relationship with Israel and the US?

This podcast contains scenes some listeners may find upsetting. 

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Guests:

 • Christina Lamb, chief foreign correspondent, The Times.
 • Gabrielle Weiniger, Israel correspondent, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers: Olivia Case, Jesse Fox.

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Read more: ‘My son was on my wife’s lap when the IDF shot him dead’

Further listening: The ticking time bomb Netanyahu faces at home

Clips: Parliamentlive.tv, BBC, UK Government / facebook, CNN, PBS, Channel 4, Al Jazeera.

Photo: Kobi Wolf for The Sunday Times.

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Inside the West Bank crisis driving Britain to act

John Healey gave his first major speech as Chancellor on Monday, aiming to show that the economy has ‘turned a corner’. But his comments have been overshadowed by a background of turmoil in the bond markets, thousands of job cuts, and speculation that he is offering very little different to his predecessor Rachel Reeves. So what did this speech tell us about the new Chancellor? And will he have to raise taxes at the budget in October? 

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Guest: Jack Barnett, economics correspondent, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers: Leo Danczak, Shabnam Grewal.

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Read more: It’s decision time for Andy Burnham if he wants to win over markets

Further listening: The Business: Scott Bessent, bond markets and the threat to UK borrowing

Clips: BBC, Sky News, Channel 4, The Andrew Neil Report.

Photo: Getty Images.

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Is Britain's economy really turning a corner?

Hundreds of protestors in Portsmouth clashed with police last night and early this morning. It was the second mass demonstration against small boat arrivals after a far-right protest caused disruption at the Port of Dover on Saturday. So who is behind the protests? And what should the government do now?

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Guests:

 • Ollie Cole, newsroom reporter, The Times. 
 • Lord Walney, former government advisor on political violence and disruption.
 • Dr Georgios Samaras, lecturer in public policy, Kings College London. 

Host: Seb Payne, leader writer and columnist, The Times. 

Producers: Felix Forbes, Maya Loubani, Rufus Jones. 

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Read more: Portsmouth protest: police officers injured as migrant dinghy arrives

Further listening: The state of asylum in the UK

Photo: PA.

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LATEST: Anti-immigration protests in Dover and Portsmouth

While Westminster deals with the fallout from one Russian affair, today’s Stories of our Times podcast is about the couple who blew the whistle on Russia’s state sponsored doping operation in sport. The Sunday Times’ chief sports writer David Walsh told their story to Manveen Rana.

Guests: 

David Walsh, Sunday Times chief sports writer and

Vitaly and Yuliya Stepanov, Russian whistle blowing couple.

Host: Manveen Rana. 

Clips: CBS, ARD, WADA, CGTN

Additional music: Meydan & Scott Holmes (licensed under Creative Commons)

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Russian sports doping: The whistleblowers who risked their lives

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