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Today in Focus brings you closer to the Guardian's journalism. Our award-winning morning edition hosted by Helen Pidd, Nosheen Iqbal and Annie Kelly combines on-the-ground reporting, insightful analysis and personal testimony from the people at the heart of the stories that matter, to give you a deeper understanding of the world we live in. And to make sense of a rapidly-changing news cycle, our new evening edition 'The Latest' hosted by Lucy Hough, brings you up to speed on the big news story of the day in just 10 minutes. Available on YouTube and all podcast platforms.
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Is this show right for you?
Comfortable if you already follow TV news
- 97% of the episodes are B2.
- 171 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 29 episodes with a full transcript.
Episodes(296)
B250 min
B212 min‘Barbaric’ firing squad livestream ordered by Pete Hegseth – The LatestOct 9, 2026Subtitles
B227 minRussell T Davies on 40 years of bringing gay stories to our screensOct 9, 2026Subtitles
B211 min‘Come back’: EU flirts with UK rejoining – The LatestOct 8, 2026Subtitles
B227 minFrance’s teens versus the riot policeOct 8, 2026Subtitles
B212 min‘Jaw-dropping’: Christa Pike wakes up after botched execution – The LatestOct 7, 2026Subtitles
B233 minA week inside the chaos of the Green partyOct 7, 2026Subtitles
B213 minPlague outbreak? Russian lab worker dies in Siberia - The LatestOct 6, 2026Subtitles
B131 min“It breaks your heart everyday”: navigating England’s social care systemOct 6, 2026Subtitles
B29 minWhy did the US rush to withdraw bombers from RAF Fairford? - The LatestOct 5, 2026Subtitles
B226 minColonialism for clicks? The influencers targeting uncontacted tribesOct 5, 2026Subtitles
B252 min
B214 minCelebrity Traitors: what was Richard E Grant thinking? – The LatestOct 2, 2026Subtitles
B225 minThe Bolsonaros … they’re back! Brazil heads to the pollsOct 2, 2026Subtitles
B212 minTennessee woman survives two lethal injections - The LatestOct 1, 2026Subtitles
B230 minBillionaire Sheiks and ‘sham’ contracts: the Manchester City scandalOct 1, 2026Subtitles
B28 minMid-air panic as pilot attacked on Israel-bound flight - The LatestSep 30, 2026Subtitles
B232 minAndy Burnham’s big bold leapSep 30, 2026Subtitles
B210 minDiesel export ban: will Trump push global energy prices even higher? – The LatestSep 29, 2026Subtitles
B231 minThe Pussy Riot activist turned Kremlin informerSep 29, 2026Subtitles
B29 min
B230 minBanished: the secret Trump deals sending migrants across the worldSep 28, 2026Subtitles
B212 minProtests erupt as Netanyahu gives inflammatory UN speech - The LatestSep 25, 2026Subtitles
B225 minMarina Hyde on Trump, tech bros and Taylor SwiftSep 25, 2026Subtitles
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Is this show right for you?
B2 · Upper-intermediate
Comfortable if you already follow TV news
- 97% of the episodes are B2.
- 171 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
- 29 episodes with a full transcript.
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