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by The Guardian
300 EPISODES
Jan 2021
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‘Austerity is inevitably painful’. How Michael Gove justifies his politics | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty
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‘Austerity is inevitably painful’. How Michael Gove justifies his politics | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty
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‘A completely unique opportunity’: the secretive process that will decide the BBC’s future
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From the archive: ‘Voters are unhappier with the NHS than they’ve been for 30 years. As a GP, I feel the same’
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‘A crisis of authenticity’: the truth about food influencers
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor | Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty
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Labour’s last chance? The people shaping Andy Burnham’s grand plans for Britain
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From the archive – No place like home: my bitter return to Palestine
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‘This is dangerous’: slime moulds and the bitter debate over the nature of intelligence
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Introducing Radical Thinking with Aditya Chakrabortty
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The end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear
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From the archive: How Facebook and Instagram became marketplaces for child sex trafficking
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The flat-pack skyscraper: how wood can shape the cities of the future
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The other Post Office scandal: how organised crime launders money on the high street
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From the archive: ‘I know where the bodies are buried’: one woman’s mission to change how the police investigate rape
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A bungled bomb plot in Poland exposed a spy – but whose spy was he?
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‘If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side’: can we stop AI from deceiving us?
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From the archive: The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us
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Democracy v the machine: the birth of the digital age and the warnings that were ignored
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The long shadow of Argentina’s dictatorship: she wasn’t who she thought she was. Neither was her father
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From the archive: Sudan’s outsider: how a paramilitary leader fell out with the army and plunged the country into war
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The great silence: why haven’t we found any aliens yet?
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Introducing Black Box: The Chatbots
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The body snatchers: how a young Nigerian man was lured to London in an organ-trafficking plot
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From the archive: ‘Drought is on the verge of becoming the next pandemic’
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‘I can sense Sinatra enter my body and exit my lungs’: aboard the celebrity impersonators’ cruise
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Best of 2026…so far: ‘Any other child would have died’: the miraculous survival of Nada Itrab
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Best of 2026…so far: Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong
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‘The war leaked into every lesson’: learning Ukrainian in a country under siege
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Best of 2026 … so far: Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother
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Best of 2026 … so far: Asian mothers, bad feelings: notes on an all-conquering stereotype
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Iraq’s impossible predicament: why the country is trapped between Iran and the US
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Best of 2026…so far: Endo dreams of sushi: a trip around Japan with one of the world’s greatest chefs
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Best of 2026…so far: 35,000 pints of stolen Guinness, 950 wheels of pilfered cheese: can the UK’s cargo theft crisis be stopped?
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The Dacre dynasty: how Britain’s rightwing press was radicalised
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Best of 2026…so far: ‘I see it as trafficking’: the brutal reality of life as a foreign student in the UK
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Best of 2026…so far: My maddening battle with chronic fatigue syndrome: ‘On my worst days, it feels almost demonic’
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‘This process has turned into a form of torture’: inside the trial of Erdoğan’s challenger
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‘It makes your heart sing’: can a pioneering project show that rewilding really works?
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From the archive: ‘A dizzying maze’: how the UK immigration system is geared to reject
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‘It is comforting to be haunted’: how attitudes to abortion have changed through the ages
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What training my chaotic dog taught me about power, control – and human beings
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Pinker’s progress: the celebrity scientist at the centre of the culture wars
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Saint Levant: the pop star from Gaza caught between passionate fandom and bitter disapproval
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‘There’s this deep mystery of what, actually, is this thing?’: the philosopher inside Google DeepMind AI
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From the archive: Battle of the botanic garden: the horticulture war roiling the Isle of Wight
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‘Navigating the unknown together’: me and my idiot AI boyfriend
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‘He liked that people were scared of him’: my year unpicking fantasy and reality with a veteran of Italy’s football ultras
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From the archive: Leave no trace: how a teenage hacker lost himself online
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How did Mexico’s president become the world’s most popular leftwing leader?
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I launched Cuba’s first independent magazine. And that’s when my troubles began
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