Stateside with Kai and Carter: Why the fight over abortion pills is only just beginning
The US supreme court has preserved nationwide access to mail-order abortion pills, for now. As Carter Sherman explains, the fight to protect...
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20 of 184 episodesIntroducing Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’
The US supreme court demolished the 1965 Voting Rights Act when they ruled in Louisiana v Callais in April that states can’t consider race i...
Off Duty: The Crime
On the evening of 29 December 2011, Officer Clifton Lewis was moonlighting as a security guard at a Chicago minimart when two men walked in....
The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one
The Free Birth Society was selling pregnant women a simple message. They could exit the medical system and take back their power. By free bi...
Missing in the Amazon: the disappearance – episode 1
Three years ago British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous defender Bruno Pereira vanished while on a reporting trip near Braz...
The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter – an Audio Long Read podcast
Alexandra Morton-Hayward is using cutting-edge methods to crack the secrets of ancient brains – even as hers betrays her There are more Audi...
The mysterious novelist who foresaw Putin’s Russia and then came to symbolise its moral decay – an Audio Long Read podcast
Victor Pelevin made his name in 90s Russia with his scathing satires of authoritarianism. But while his literary peers have faced censorship...
Inside the Vatican’s secret saint-making process – an Audio Long Read podcast
Canonisation has long been a way for the Catholic church to shape its own image. As the Vatican prepares to anoint its first millennial sain...
Seth Rogen: slacker to studio boss; Marina Hyde on Trump making anywhere but America great again; and Philippa Perry helps with imposter syndrome
Seth Rogen may be known for his stoner vibe and comedies such as Superbad and Knocked Up, but behind the scenes the actor, writer, weed-love...
Actor Michael Sheen on paying off £1m of his neighbours’ debts; Marina Hyde on ‘grotesque’ JD Vance; and ‘how the Beatles helped my autistic son find his voice’
Marina Hyde on 1,000 grotesque memes of JD Vance – they’re all more likable than the real thing. The actor Michael Sheen grew up poor, got r...
Actor Danny Dyer on aliens and cocaine; the anti-vax parents who changed their minds; and Philippa Perry on feeling unimportant
Danny Dyer talks about his journey from national joke to national treasure. Fuelled by social media misinformation, anti-vax activism has ac...
The White Lotus actor Aimee Lou Wood, Marina Hyde on Daddy Musk, and are we over-diagnosing illness?
With the mothers of Elon’s kids begging for his attention on social media, he makes much of ‘pronatalism’ – but is that just a fancy word fo...
‘I forgive them for what they’ve done’: Esther Ghey on life after the murder of daughter Brianna
Two years ago, transgender teenager Brianna Ghey was stabbed to death by two 15-year-olds. The killers had been radicalised on the dark web,...
Can Drake come back from Kendrick Lamar’s diss?; Marina Hyde on Starmer aping Trump; ‘I was trapped for 65 hours under 4,000 tons of rubble’; and Philippa Perry on setting boundaries with your parents
Marina Hyde on Keir Starmer’s palid imitation of Trumpism. The sole survivor of a landslide describes the pain, the fear and the long, windi...
Marina Hyde on Kanye and Bianca; the woman who lives without money; Roman Kemp on tattoos and mental health; and Philippa Perry on ‘chaotic’ partners
Emperor Kanye and his ‘chief architect’ Bianca Censori at the Grammys – guess which one wasn’t wearing any clothes? Roman Kemp opens up abou...
Wicked star Cynthia Erivo on fame, fear and fighting classism; Marina Hyde on why gen Z kids are not alright; and the mind/body revolution
From yearning for a ‘strong leader’ to being swept up in riots, the portents for our children are not good – and who can blame them for bein...
My mum the family vlogger and child abuser; Marina Hyde on Trump’s ‘golden age’; and Spotify’s Billions Club
Confusing and capricious, Trump started as he means to go on: chaos, dysfunction and a coalition of creeps; Ruby Franke was a social media s...
Huel creator James Collier on bodybuilding and bullies; Marina Hyde on fawning Trump tech bros; and Philippa Perry’s advice on a dwindling sex life – Podcast
Move fast, break things, sprint to kiss Trump’s ring: Marina Hyde on the tech bro inauguration derby. ‘I get hate from both sides – vegans a...
‘How can you rebuild when your father is the worst sexual predator in decades?’: Pelicot’s daughter speaks; and Philippa Perry on the deceptive ‘spark’
Caroline Darian, daughter of Dominique and Gisèle Pelicot, tells of the ‘crushing double burden’ of being the child of both victim and perpe...
Revisited: a new approach to quitting smoking; how to stop people-pleasing; and why do we have the dreams we do?
Chris Godfrey spent a decade trying to quit smoking, then he tried hypnotherapy and it changed his life. ‘They’re probably not thinking abou...