The man fighting to help the families of seriously ill children

Stories of our times by The Times

Aug 31, 202633:54News & Politics

When Ceri Menai-Davis’ five year old son Hugh was diagnosed with cancer, his whole family’s life was transformed. The emotional toll was unimaginable, but alongside that came myriad other hidden costs, and he soon found...

Related Episodes

Continue listening to more episodes from Stories of our times.

Bonus: Bill Gates on AI risk, regulation and the "vacuum of US leadership"

Sep 16, 2026 - 28:25

The Microsoft co-founder tells Danny and Katie why AI is "ultra-different" from any previous technology -...

How Lucy Letby’s hospital failed her victims

Sep 16, 2026 - 23:49

The Thirlwall Inquiry into how Lucy Letby was able to murder babies at the Countess of Chester hospital h...

What the lightning Houthi advance means for the world

Sep 15, 2026 - 28:31

The Iranian-backed Houthis have seized large swathes of territory in Yemen and taken control of the Bab a...

Will superintelligent AI destroy humanity?

Sep 14, 2026 - 29:09

Warnings about the dangers of AI are reaching fever pitch, with cases of AI agents going rogue and attemp...

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

Sep 13, 2026 - 35:36

In June 2023, Grace O’Malley-Kumar, Barnaby Webber and Ian Coates were stabbed to death by Valdo Calocane...

My life with Freddie Mercury - The Saturday Story

Sep 12, 2026 - 25:46

When Freddie Mercury, lead vocalist of Queen and one of the all-time greats of rock music, died from Aids...

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

Sep 11, 2026 - 37:02

It’s 25 years since the 9/11 attacks; in the aftermath, the CIA hunted down those responsible – detaining...

How the AfD became a nightmare for Friedrich Merz

Sep 10, 2026 - 31:14

The AfD’s thumping victory in the Saxony-Anhalt regional election has sent shockwaves across the German p...