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Senior Producer for The Journal podcast from @wsj + @Spotify . Co-host of The Trial of Crypto's Golden Boy. Proud member of @GimletUnion

New York, via London

https://t.co/hT7ZI7hkdt

Joined August 2010

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🇺🇸Imagine a podcast about the U.S. election that actually answered your questions, rather than leaving you with more? 🇺🇸 Our new weekly series with @mollyesque and @Ryan_Knutson aims to do just that. First episode drops tomorrow. Find it in The Journal podcast feed!

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London, where the streets are paved with positive lateral flow tests

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For the best part of a year, @felizysolo and I have collaborated on a @WSJ investigation that sought to answer a question: who is sending us scam texts like this one?

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On December 15th 2020 @Keir_Starmer wrote to Boris Johnson urging him to convene a COBRA meeting to discuss the worsening covid situation. That evening, the Prime Minister hosted a quiz with his staff instead.

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EXCLUSIVE: Boris Johnson accused of personally breaking Covid laws by hosting a Christmas quiz in No10 last year - and we've got pictures 👀

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Today in Parliament

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Big day for Kingston

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But Billy had been tricked. The job was fake. He had been recruited by a vast criminal network that trafficks people, enslaves them and forces them to send scam texts to people around the world.

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For 16 months he was trapped in this brutal slave system before he managed to escape. Only a few people make it out. Even fewer are able to tell their stories. We were fortunate that Billy was willing to share his.

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And you can read his story here:

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Posing as ‘Alicia,’ This Man Scammed Hundreds Online. He Was Also a Victim.

A multibillion-dollar cyberfraud industry operating out of Southeast Asia relies on forced labor and torture.

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The answer led Feliz to Billy. He’s 41 years old and a tech worker from Ethiopia. In 2022 he took a job in Thailand with a fin tech company and was flown to a town near the border with Myanmar.

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You can hear Billy speaking to @felizysolo on the latest episode of The Journal podcast, made by @Ryan_Knutson @KatABrew and me.

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The Slaves Sending You Scam Texts

Episode · The Journal. · Have you ever thought about who is behind your scam texts? WSJ reporter Feliz Solomon spent months investigating and discovered that many of these texts are coming from...

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You couldn't make it up: Daily Mail's publisher raises concerns about Brexit as "the majority of our newsprint is sourced from the EU"

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Yes I know England are through to the last 16 at the World Cup but can we please all actually be upstanding for Lilian from Preston who has gone to a wedding wearing a fascinator she made from a bath puff

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Alabama’s new Democrat Senator echoes the words of Jo Cox in his victory speech

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Doug Jones: "I have always believed that the people of Alabama had more in common than divided us. We have shown not just around the state of Alabama, but we have shown the country the way that we can be unified." #ALSen

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If you’re keen to try train travel but don’t have lots of time then I highly recommend London➡️San Sebastián! It takes a day and involves a double decker train, sea views and the opportunity to buy large amounts of cheese + wine in Paris. Thanks @seatsixtyone for the route.

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A week ago Mum lost the dog. Today 13 fireman dug for 4 hours on Bodmin Moor and Minnie is home for Christmas. http://t.co/jJZZ8xkbFp

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What we need now at this huge moment of political crisis, is a man wearing a red nose on @Channel4News

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I have come across a model on @depop who looks like a young Matt Hancock and I now can’t unsee it

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Today after 14 years living in London I am moving to New York! Here in no particular order is a 🧵 of some things I have learnt, laughed and loved about this city

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"Am I a hero? No. When we talk about heroism, it is the stories of refugees we must listen to." Carola Rakete, the sea captain arrested for docking a migrant rescue ship in Italy spoke to @lorenzo_tondo for Today in Focus. Listen to her story:

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The sea captain facing jail after saving the lives of refugees – podcast

Carola Rackete defied Italy’s ban on migrant rescue ships by forcing her way into the port of Lampedusa last week. She talks to the Guardian’s Lorenzo Tondo. Plus: Simon Jenkins on the leaked...

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Felt a bit sad this morning so went out on my bike to remind myself that if I am to be trapped anywhere, at least it’s in one of the best cities in the world.

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When you find out he had another family all along

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All be upstanding for New Zealand, which has just passed a law granting victims of domestic violence 10 days paid leave to allow them to leave their partners, find new homes and protect themselves and their children

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@joepike @itvtynetees God Joe it's so obvious, he wants a Brexit, a clear Brexit option, but not that Brexit, not that Brexit at all

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If you haven't listened to this morning's episode of Today in Focus, you won't have heard that I have (in the common parlance of twitter dot com) some PERSONAL NEWS......Next week will be the last time you hear me on the podcast!

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To understand why the language used by Andrew Neil in his (now deleted) tweet is so problematic, listen to our Today in Focus episode with Carole in which she reflects on the impact of being labelled "a mad cat lady"

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Arron Banks: the man who bankrolled Brexit – podcast

Carole Cadwalladr has been covering the biggest pro-leave donor for nearly two years. As each revelation sparks a new investigation, Arron Banks rubbishes her journalism. But those investigations are...

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4 days ago, I wrote to @bbc re its role in amplifying @arron_banks ’ harassment campaign against me. I cited Neil’s tweets. This isn’t just sexist & unfunny. & it doesn’t just reveal wider failure to report the story. It betrays the British public. Who are not being told the truth

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Eight quid for an egg free egg

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I’ve loved producing the @guardian ’s Today in Focus podcast this year, and feel very lucky to say that from today I’m it’s new co-host! Listen to my interview with @Gladwell about strangers, and the consequences of misunderstanding people we don’t know

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Malcolm Gladwell on the consequences of misreading a stranger – podcast

Writer Malcolm Gladwell examines our interactions with strangers, and Daniel Boffey on the view from Brussels of a chaotic week in British politics

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The Government has lost control of infections, putting our economy and our NHS at grave risk. The Prime Minister must convene COBRA to review whether the planned relaxation of restrictions is appropriate. The priority must be to allow people to celebrate Christmas safely.

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I see November is here

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TOO excited! Today in Focus won a gold (Best Current Affairs podcast) + 2 silvers @britpodawards tonight! Well done to the incredible @AnushkaAsthana @NicoleMJackson @phil_maynard @MythiliRao @IndiaRakusen @Joshuapkelly11 @hansermoore @courtneyyusuf @elizacasss @AxelKacoutie 🍾

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Just above all else here for David Seaman’s celebratory bopping

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Congratulations to @SamiraAhmedUK who has won her equal pay case against the BBC, who according to the judgment argued that Jeremy Vine was paid more than her in part because he was required to have "a glint in the eye" (para 149)

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Ladies and gentlemen, Boris Johnson's mandate

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Labour friends of returning the sausages

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@krishgm @Philosopha1 It's 100,000 fewer votes than Owen Smith got when he lost to Jeremy Corbyn

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Kate Middleton, the only woman who can pull off visiting the Taj Mahal dressed as the Taj Mahal

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Yes Brexit is bad, but right now Richard and Judy are presenting This Morning and are telling Paul O'Grady about the time they saw a ghost in a Paris hotel room and Richard chased it with a torch

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For my last ever episode of Today in Focus (!!) I spoke to Nemo Kim in Seoul and @MsEllenEJones about SQUID GAME and how a programme about debt became everyone’s favourite Netflix show. Made by @rosedelarra @RudiZygadlo @phil_maynard @archiebland

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The Korean debt crisis that inspired Squid Game’s dark dystopia

The Netflix hit is as fantastical as it is violent – but underpinning its macabre story of impoverished contestants risking their lives for money is a real crisis of personal debt in Korea. Why has...

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You do not need to go to Leicester Square, ever.

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I’ve been wanting to shout about this for awhile and now I can because it is An Actual Thing: @guardian is launching a daily news podcast and guess what? I’m on the team!

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Anushka Asthana to host The Guardian’s new flagship daily news podcast

The Guardian announces today that political editor Anushka Asthana will become the host of its first ever daily news and current affairs podcast

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4 years

In today's podcast @Andrew__Roth and @HannaLiubakova tell the incredible story behind elections in Belarus, and how an authoritarian leader in power for nearly 30 years is being challenged by a protest movement led by a group of inspirational women:

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Could a Belarus protest movement bring down Alexander Lukashenko? – podcast

Since Sunday, thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Belarus to contest the claimed election victory of the president, Alexander Lukashenko, and met a violent police response. Hanna...

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Coming up on @LBC @ShelaghFogarty speaks to Benedict Cumberbatch about his fears for refugees leaving the Calais camp today

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From the end of this month I will be a Senior Producer for @wallstjournal 's daily podcast 'The Journal.' joining @kate_linebaugh @Ryan_Knutson and the team @Gimletmedia

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10 years

So this Dolce and Gabbana boycott might be the easiest one I've ever done

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@estwebber @Lukejones03 @scottygb New ITV show pitch: Lords Island

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FOUND IT #greathuntforeaster

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Well done @SkyNews

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The winter covid plan is here

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Assuming this means Colin the Caterpillar is now implicated?

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4 years

The man responsible for making @mrjamesob a viral sensation is leaving @LBC . A big loss! Adrian has been instrumental to the station's digital success in the past decade, and was also just a really great person to make mindless conversation with in the office.

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Today marks my final day running the digital team at LBC after 13 incredible years. Here follows a thread of some of my favourite memories. 1/

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We’re up for Best Daily Pod, Best Current Affairs and Best Interview Pod @britpodawards ! Thanks to the whole team, all our freelancers and amazing @guardian journalists who work so hard to make Today in Focus!

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Wowser - Today in Focus has 3 nominations in the British Podcast Awards-well done team-you guys are sensational! 👏 @NicoleMJackson @phil_maynard @rachel_hump @Joshuapkelly11 @elizacasss @hansermoore @courtneyyusuf @AxelKacoutie @rosedelarra @SamiKent @alexatackonline AND MORE!

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How have we allowed a situation to develop in this country where thousands are trapped in homes they cannot sell? Important podcast today with @Robert_Booth and Natalie, who lives in a building with flammable cladding which caught fire in May.

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After Grenfell: the unsolved cladding crisis

The Grenfell Tower tragedy forced a reassessment of fire safety for buildings across the country, but no consensus on who should pay for it. Robert Booth describes how for many residents the issue...

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When I see Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis I get sad because Pete Postlethwaite isn't alive to play him http://t.co/ClvvKF9JvO

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Taking a couple of weeks off and leaving you in the capable hands of @NosheenIqbal and @safimichael on Today in Focus who have some brilliant episodes coming up! Meanwhile my break has started with my favourite thing of all time ever: a sleeper train (love waking up to this view)

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💕VERY EXCITED that today’s podcast is a @guardian BLIND DATE TAKEOVER! 💕 6 listeners, 3 Zoom dates and we recorded each one to hear what looking for love in lockdown sounds like. Produced by matchmaker extraordinaire @hansermoore

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Blind Date takeover: looking for love in lockdown part 1 – podcast

Lockdown has changed the way we date. Is it possible to form the same kind of connection through a screen? To find out, we set up six strangers on three virtual blind dates ...

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In the name of journalism I gave up caffeine for a whole *24 hours* before an interview with the fascinating @michaelpollan who has written about how and why we’re all so addicted to it and the results were…well, you’ll just have to listen to the podcast:

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How we all got hooked on caffeine

It’s the world’s most widely used psychoactive drug, it disrupts our sleep, it makes us grumpy when we miss it – and we give it to our children. What keeps us coming back?

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Poisoned underwear, Putin’s secret aquadisco and a very dramatic courtroom scene: today’s podcast about Alexei Navalny’s return to Russia has it all. Brilliantly told by @Andrew__Roth . Made by @courtneyyusuf @MythiliRao and sound design by @AxelKacoutie

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Alexei Navalny’s imprisonment: how Putin put his opponent behind bars – podcast

The sentencing of opposition leader Alexei Navalny marks a dramatic turning point in Russian politics, says Andrew Roth

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Tom Watson tells #r4today that he thinks Boris “has a career, on Love Yourself Island” and is then corrected by John Humphrys who reminds him that the show is called Love Island and thus the not very good quip is truly ruined.

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Delighted that the first episode I have made for @WSJ ’s The Journal podcast is about Taylor Swift!! @kate_linebaugh talks to @AnneMarieSteele about how Tay’s push for music ownership comes as her own label is making it harder for artists to re-record:

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After 3 years of execing Today in Focus, Friday was @NicoleMJackson ’s last day on the podcast! Nicole IS TiF in so many ways so we asked listener and amazing illustrator @laurieavon to create this to celebrate everything she’s done since we launched back in 2018:

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Strong detective work

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6 years

If you had told 15 year-old me that one day I would produce an episode of @BBCWomansHour featuring an interview with @GabrielleUk I would have been STUPIDLY excited (and baffled). It is happening, and I am STUPIDLY excited (and baffled). Listen from 10! ( #dreamscancometrue )

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Today the sham trial of my @WSJ colleague Evan Gershkovich began in Russia, the latest chapter in a series of ridiculous legal proceedings that have kept him behind bars for over a year. The Russian regime must end its baseless attacks on Evan and free him now. #IStandWithEvan

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Today in Focus: THIS IS REALLY SAD 👇

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Really excited to be joining ITV news as deputy political editor to @peston working with the brilliant @amberdebotton once more! Really looking forward to joining a great team...

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Podcasters/broadcasters! Yesterday I discovered a solution to recording interviews and script at home! It’s a tent. A tent in my bedroom.

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I have made a terrible mistake in moving to America, a country which seems to have limited access to halloumi.

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When I first read about Anna Sorokin, a young woman who faked the life of a billionaire heiress, I thought her story would make a great podcast. Today, that podcast exists! Told by @HadleyFreeman and Jesse Hawk, who filmed Anna on a lavish trip to Morocco

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Anna Sorokin: the fake heiress who fooled everyone – podcast

Hadley Freeman discusses how Sorokin was eventually exposed. Plus: Helen Pidd on the inequality between London and the rest of England

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The New York Times doesn't pull any punches in its response to being barred from the White House

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7 years

I have consulted a friend in Australia to find out what 2018 is like. He says “it’s a bit drab”. Happy New Year everyone!

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5 years

Last night, a new experience: going up on stage to collect an award. I am GIDDY that Case Notes, a podcast I worked on @ClassicFM won the Best True Crime category @britpodawards !!! And we didn’t get to do a speech so..you guessed it..I’m doing some shout outs here

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Very here for the Indian police officer who has decided wearing a coronavirus-themed helmet is the best way to enforce a lockdown

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And thank you to YOU for listening! I have loved hearing from you all and know that you are all safe hands with the amazing @NosheenIqbal and @safimichael who have got some great episodes coming up. I’m so sad to leave, but very glad they’re steering the TiF juggernaut now.

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4 years

In today's podcast @HannahEP looks at how coronavirus is being used by the Indian government to erode the rights and freedoms of it's citizens, and journalist @svaradarajan on why his reporting on the spread of Covid-19 led to him being visited by police

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Is coronavirus being used to turn India into a surveillance state? – podcast

Hannah Ellis-Petersen reports on the implications of people downloading an app designed to help control the spread of Covid-19 in a country where civil liberties were already being eroded

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3 years

I have SO MANY PEOPLE to thank at @guardian and I'll be filling my feed with tweets about them all in the coming days but if you have ever listened to Today in Focus, thank you. You make our podcast what it is and have made it such a joy to work on since we launched it in 2018.

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6 years

UPDATE: I am here for the summer ☀️⛱🏄🏻‍♀️ finding and putting stories about women on the radio. My DMs are open for ideas/ leads / hellos..get in touch!

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Over 200,000 Brazilians have died from Covid and yet President Jair Bolsonaro still denies it exists. In today's podcast @tomphillipsin meets the people fighting the pandemic at its epicentre in Manaus. Made by @hansermoore @NicoleMJackson @AxelKacoutie

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Why Brazilians are having to take the Covid crisis into their own hands – podcast

Tom Phillips, the Guardian’s Latin America correspondent, looks at the surge of infections in the Brazilian state of Amazonas that has left many hospitals without the most basic supplies and has...

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Back at the SDNY courthouse for Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentencing, and some unfinished business.

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6 years

Vital local radio services and jobs sacrificed so that Global can "lead the commercial sector and compete with R1 and R2 at breakfast time". Sad that Global have made this decision and disappointing Ofcom gave them the green light in the first place:

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Ofcom will now allow networked breakfast shows

Ofcom has updated its Localness Guidelines for commercial radio stations and will now allow a local commercial radio station to network its breakfast show.

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Capital, Heart, and Smooth radio stations are all ending local and regional breakfast shows this year as @Global introduces national programmes on all frequencies

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Nick Clegg announcing that Trump will be allowed back on Facebook “with new guard rails” is very “trust me we’ll preserve Lib Dem values in a Tory coalition” vibes

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Can anyone in Siberia explain to me how they make train doors that don't freeze shut? Asking because I only got to work today because of a proactive train guard with a very strong kick. #BeastFromTheEast

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6 years

Encouraging to see that property prices in London increased by an average of £1,000 between the first and second edition of today’s @standardnews

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I've long been interested in the mysterious escape attempts by Dubai's Princesses. In today's podcast we look at the court case which might shed light on them, and *could* be hugely significant for women in the UAE. With @Ola_Salem and @Haroon_Siddique

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Why do Dubai's princesses keep trying to run away? – podcast

Ola Salem discusses the divorce case of Princess Haya, who fled to London. Plus: John Marsden on toxic parenting

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Asked in this if it was reasonable to conclude that police may have had enough information to identify Couzens as a sexual threat to women prior to the murder of Everard, Met assistant commissioner Nick Ephgrave accepted that that was possible

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Sarah Everard’s killer might have been identified as threat sooner, police admit

Details of indecent exposure claims emerge as ex-Met officer Wayne Couzens is given whole-life sentence

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Spot @kate_linebaugh in action

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@WSJ newsroom on the news Evan is free. ⁦ @emmatuckerWSJ ⁩ addresses the troops. “This is a historical day for The Wall Street Journal.”

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Just off out for dinner

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U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has just told the BBC that she supports British people who want to go to Ukraine to fight.

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Dress down Friday

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Police trying (and failing) to quell the 'sit down for Syria' protesters outside Number 10 @LBC

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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter

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The interview in this with Barry, who was 5 when he was sent to one of Canada’s indigenous residential schools where hundreds of unmarked graves have been discovered was one of the hardest I’ve ever done. Listen to him and @LeylandCecco on today’s podcast

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The Indigenous children who died at Canada’s residential schools – podcast

Half a century ago, Barry Kennedy was taken from his family and forced into an abusive system that sought to eradicate his Indigenous heritage. Now, after the discovery of more than 1,000 bodies in...

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"I'm grateful to all of you, but I'd rather be with Jo." Brendan Cox speaking in Trafalgar Square now #MoreInCommon

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It began with a mysterious tip in 2016 and it ended with a President being found guilty of a crime for the first time in history. On our podcast today: how the @WSJ uncovered the story that led to Trump’s conviction. With @joe_palazzolo + @coryramey

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The Origin Story of Trump's Guilty Verdict

Listen to this episode from The Journal. on Spotify. A New York jury has found former President Donald Trump guilty on 34 charges. WSJ reporter Joe Palazzolo recalls the original investigation that...

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Just heard Bernard Jenkin ask #r4today “why don’t you get the EU into your studio?” A question which, when you consider the size of most radio studios, has a fairly obvious answer.

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Very excited to be able to share this..we're being joined on Today in Focus by not one, but two incredible @guardian journalists! Welcome @safimichael and @NosheenIqbal 👏👏👏

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NEW: Michael Safi and Nosheen Iqbal announced as new presenters of the @guardian ’s award-winning daily news podcast Today in Focus @safimichael @NosheenIqbal @guardianaudio

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In today’s podcast: the extraordinary story of the young British woman who says she was gang raped in Cyprus, forced to sign a retraction statement and then prosecuted for lying. Told by her lawyer @MichaelPolakLaw @expertsabroad and journalist @NoaShpigel

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Ayia Napa: Why was an alleged rape victim convicted for lying? – podcast

On 17 July 2019, an 18-year old British woman claimed she had been gang-raped by a group of Israeli tourists. But 10 days later she was being charged with lying by the Cypriot police. Michael Polak,...

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For everyone who has listened to today's (very good, #ItsComingHome ) Today in Focus ep then you'll know that A) @AnushkaAsthana is tragically LEAVING! + B) we are not the same person! 👋 to new followers and from our whole team: thank you for the lovely messages about the pod!

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No it doesn't http://t.co/gQg1MTkiB0

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Am currently an absolute husk of a person after a beautiful weekend @GreenManFest . 3days of unadulterated fun in the Brecons which felt like a cathartic, beer-soaked-dance-round-a-fire return to real life. Gwell hwyr na hwryrach! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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It's my last day working @BBCWomansHour for a bit so I'm going to shamelessly plug the programme I produced back in June about The Truth project run by @InquiryCSA . Not always an easy listen, and not at all easy to make, but incredibly rewarding:

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Having worked at Global in various roles this pay gap doesn’t surprise me (hardly any women are in senior roles) but I am frustrated that staff have to find out about it by looking on a government website. This shouldn’t be a tick box exercise, but an opportunity for change.

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You might be surprised to hear Dave, but US TOO

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I was let loose producing @BBCWomansHour today which IS as fun as you might imagine. We discussed late diagnosis of autism in women and spoke to a fabulous 80 year-old soprano:

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BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Kinship carers, Happy teenagers

Financial hardships for kinship carers, and how can teenagers be happy?

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