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Beyond Today
Beyond Today is the daily podcast from Radio 4 that asks one big question about one big story in the news - and beyond. Tina Daheley, Matthew Price, and a team of curious producers search for answers that change the way we see the world. They speak to the BBC’s unrivalled global network of reporters...
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Do we really understand drill?
Drill music has a reputation for inciting violence and crime. The Metropolitan Police believes the genre is linked to the rise of stabbings and murder...
Will coronavirus take away our jobs?
At first coronavirus was just a health story, but now it’s pretty clear employment and the economy are taking a massive hit.
Travel bans have le...
Is wokeness just white guilt?
Kiley Reid’s debut novel shot into the bestsellers list and has been lauded by critics here and in the US. Such A Fun Age follows the lives of babysit...
Is coronavirus 'worse' than flu?
The world is in the midst of a pandemic. For most people, symptoms of the virus are mild, they might develop a cough and a fever before getting better...
Why would you transition twice?
Most people who transition to another gender do not have second thoughts. In fact de-transitioning is thought to be relatively rare. There are no accu...
Why are teens getting pregnant in Middlesbrough?
Middlesbrough has the highest number of teenage pregnancies in England and Wales. Even though national figures show rates have dropped by nearly 60 pe...
What made Dubai’s princesses run away?
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the 70-year-old billionaire ruler of Dubai and vice-president of the United Arab Emirates, has been found by th...
How do you fight anti-Semitism?
It was just before 10 o’clock in the morning on 27th October 2018 when a man armed with a semi-automatic rifle and three pistols opened fire on worshi...
Should Priti Patel resign?
There have been mounting allegations over the past few weeks that home secretary Priti Patel has bullied her staff. Last weekend the top civil servant...
Why are people rioting in Delhi?
Nearly 50 people have died in India following violence around a controversial citizenship law which critics say is anti-Muslim. Photographs, videos a...
Does France have a #MeToo problem?
In the same week that Harvey Weinstein was convicted for sexual assaults in New York, Roman Polanski won the award for best director at the Césars, th...
Can we be green and rich?
In Paris in 2015 world leaders agreed on a binding commitment on climate change. They committed to keeping the increase in global temperatures to just...
Does self-care really make you happy?
2020 has been quite a year, we're only two months in but have already faced an impending war between the US and Iran, deadly bushfires in Australia, a...
What’s the Harvey Weinstein story?
For years there were allegations that Harvey Weinstein had assaulted women. This week he was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault, including r...
What are police cameras doing with your face print?
Facial recognition technology is increasingly widespread. You might use it to unlock your phone or computer. It’s used in airports around the world an...
Coronavirus: are we all going to catch it?
With cases of coronavirus spreading across the world, one word we’re hearing more and more is “pandemic”. If the disease is declared a pandemic it wou...
Why would Facebook want to crack down on big tech?
Mark Zuckerberg says he wants new rules for social media.
Every year politicians and security experts meet in Munich to discuss how to keep the...
Has Billie Eilish saved the music industry?
Billie Eilish is on top of the world right now. The 18-year-old recently swept the board at the Grammys, winning five awards including best new artist...
How should we react to Caroline Flack’s death?
Since Caroline Flack’s death by suicide last weekend, many people have been trying to make sense of it. Yesterday her family released a previously unp...
Why is No 10 hiring ‘weirdos’?
At the beginning of the year Dominic Cummings, the prime minister’s senior adviser, put out an unusual job advertisement. In a blog post he asked for...
Why is Trump standing up for religious teenagers?
Donald Trump is trying to shore up his evangelical support before November's presidential election. Ramping up his Christian outreach, he's been helpi...
How do you track extremists online?
Julia Ebner monitors extremists during her day job as a counter-terrorism expert, where she advises governments and tech companies on how to respond t...
Why can’t we sleep?
Insomnia affects about a third of adults in the UK according to the NHS. It also says adults should be getting between 7 and 9 hours sleep a night, b...
Why are people being deported to Jamaica?
It’s been two years since the Windrush scandal, where at least 164 black British citizens were wrongly deported to countries of their birth or detaine...
Why would anyone spread lies about coronavirus?
Coronavirus has reached 24 counties outside of China, with 8 confirmed cases in the UK. As the disease is spreading so is a lot of information, some...
Why are more young women killing themselves?
Callie Lewis was just 24 years old when she took her own life. Callie had been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at a young age and had always strugg...
Parasite: what does it say about South Korea?
South Korean film Parasite has been named best picture at this year's Oscars, becoming the first non-English language film to take the top prize. It w...
Why are we talking about Michael Barrymore?
It was the celebrity scandal that gripped the nation in an era where tabloids ruled the roost and affairs and addiction dominated front pages. Right i...
Is it all looking good for Trump?
The president sort of won the Iowa Democratic caucus.
This week was supposed to be when the race to be the candidate to take on Donald Trump in...
How did a lying breast surgeon destroy so many lives?
Yesterday an inquiry into the harm that breast surgeon Ian Paterson did to his patients finally delivered its results. The inquiry recommended that al...
How do you stop a terror attack?
Sudesh Amman had been released from prisons days before he stabbed two people in a Islamist-related terror incident in London on February 2. Within mi...
Why was an Irish teenager’s body found in a bag?
On January 13 a bag containing the dismembered limbs of teenager Keane Mulready-Woods was found on a housing estate in Dublin. Keane is believed to ha...
Veganuary: was it worth it?
With more of us becoming more conscious of our health and the environment, vegans and vegetarians look set to make up a quarter of the British populat...
Why are so many Vietnamese people trafficked?
The country was shocked when 39 people were found suffocated in the back of a lorry on an industrial park in Essex last October. The discovery that th...
Did Huawei just win a tech war?
This week Huawei was given permission to build parts of the new 5G network in the UK. But, because Huawei is a Chinese company, there’s a lot of conc...
Coronavirus: what’s really happening?
A brand-new virus which causes severe lung disease has been detected in China. More than 100 people are known to have died there, and experts believe...
What does Goop get right?
In her new Netflix series The Goop Lab, Gwyneth Paltrow skates the fine line between wellness, pseudoscience and medicine. From orgasms and mushrooms,...
What happened when Trump removed the experts?
“We must reject the perennial prophets of doom”. These were Donald Trump’s words at Davos earlier in the week, dismissing those who warn of the dange...
Harvey Weinstein: Is #MeToo on trial?
The trial of Harvey Weinstein started in New York this week. Once upon a time he was a Hollywood giant, then in 2017 allegations he sexually harassed...
What’s wrong with ayahuasca tourism?
The psychedelic powers of a traditional Amazonian plant medicine called ayahuasca are attracting more and more tourists. It’s becoming big business in...