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After a period of global upheaval unlike any other in living memory, we look back at the year war came to Ukraine, and how its fallout has changed Europe and the world. We ask two of our most experie…

Over the festive period, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2022.

Google engineer Blake Lemoine brought an unusual concern to his company: he feared the AI language program he w…

In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2022.

In April 1982, Captain Christopher Craig set sail with his crew on the frigate HMS Alacrity …

In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2022.

It promised a financial revolution - a liberation from money middlemen. But then the $3 tril…

In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2022.

It's a legend many of us have grown up with: a plucky group of British officers, finding the…

In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2022.

As the Ukraine war progressed, journalists, activists and critics were forced to flee the co…

In the week between Christmas and New Year, we’re listening back to some of our favourite episodes of 2022.

We begin with one of the most riveting stories of the year, from The Times’ war corresponde…

Today's Christmas Eve bonus episode comes courtesy of our sister podcast: Wine Times.

Discussing and decanting with Suzi Ruffell and Will Lyons on a live special of Wine Times are Times Radio broadcas…

Every day, hundreds of readers write into The Times and The Sunday Times. In a year when the news didn’t seem to stop, the letters editors of the two papers pick out their highlights.

This podcast was…

Since the Taliban takeover in August 2021, a humanitarian crisis has unfolded in Afghanistan. Foreign financial government support has run dry, and aid agencies are left to plug the gaps amid drought…

Strike action on a scale not seen since the 1980s is set to continue into January as workers demand pay rises to match spiralling inflation. Today, as ambulance crews in England and Wales begin a str…

The Times has an august history of recording the lives of significant people, and has been doing so in the obituaries pages since the 19th century. Today, we remember some of the people who may not b…

British volunteer Dave Young has rescued over 800 Ukrainians from the war's frontline, as well as losing his right eye to shrapnel. Anthony Loyd and filmmaker Federica De Caria join Dave in the city …

As one of the most controversial World Cups in living memory heads towards its final climax this weekend -- what was it actually like being there? And for the host nation -- after scandals, condemnat…

Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day but, for increasing numbers of children, it’s a meal they miss, affecting their concentration and learning at school. So, as the cost of living cri…

It’s been 10 years since America’s deadliest mass shooting in an elementary (primary) school. In the years since, the weapon used - the AR-15 - has also been deployed in some of the decade’s most hor…

Today, we hear from two Ukrainian journalists who we spoke to back in March, at the beginning of Russia's invasion. At that time, Kateryna Malofieieva was in the Donbas, following the ever-shifting f…

Are we living in a world where there is pressure on those in the public eye to exude virtue above all else? Where has this sensibility come from and is it leading to a blandness in our arts and cultu…

In the last few weeks, the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has called for private schools in the UK to have their charitable status scrapped, but why?

Also today, The Sunday Times launches its annual P…

As Rishi Sunak outlasts his predecessor in the top job, just how is he doing? With polls suggesting a heavy Conservative loss at the next election, a cost of living crisis and strikes across numerous…