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A Sunday Times investigation revealed this weekend that every chief Conservative Party treasurer in the past seven years gave the party £3m – and every one was offered a peerage. Manveen Rana speaks to the Insight team, renowned for carrying out some of the most groundbreaking investigations on Fleet Street.
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Guests:
- Jonathan Calvert, Insight Editor, The Sunday Times.
-George Arbuthnott, Insight Deputy Editor, The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips: Parliament TV, BBC.
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A debate on changing the procedure by which standards in Parliament are upheld last week led to a backlash from MPs - and a major u-turn. So, as the government defends itself against allegations of 'sleaze', where, does it leave the current system of policing standards in Westminster?
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Guests:
- Charlotte Ivers, political correspondent, Times Radio
- Jonathan Calvert, Insight Editor, Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips: Parliament, BBC, Sky News, ITV News
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For the past six weeks, The Sunday Times has been reporting on the unsolved murder of Agnes Wanjiru, a young mother living near a British Army base in Kenya. She was last seen alive with a British soldier: 'Soldier X'.
Today: the latest on the investigation, as members of Soldier X's regiment name the accused killer, and as one former soldier speaks to the police.
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Guests:
- David Collins, Northern editor, The Sunday Times.
- Hannah Al-Othman, news reporter, The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: James Shield.
Clips: KTN News, NTV Kenya, Parliament TV, BBC.
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As the first week of COP26 draws to a close, we're going on a journey, deep into the heart of the Amazon rainforest to see how one indigenous tribe is fighting miners, farmers and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for survival.
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Host: David Aaronovitch.
Guest: Christina Lamb, Chief Foreign Correspondent, The Sunday Times.
Clips: AFP, Rainforest Documentary 2017 - STING & FRIENDS THE RAINFOREST SPECIAL.
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Since 2016, a mysterious illness has affected US diplomatic and security staff working abroad. The symptoms include headaches, fatigue and problems with balance and memory, but are they victims of attacks with sonic weapons or is there another explanation?
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Host: David Aaronovitch
Guest: Warren Strobel, National Security Reporter for the Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Suzanne O'Sullivan, consultant neurologist.
Clips: BBC, CBC, CBS, CNBC, CNN, Global News, NBC, Reuters
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A year on from the US presidential election, America's most conservative citizens are relocating en masse to a remote region in the Pacific Northwest. Times filmmaker Alastair Good takes us into the American Redoubt, where talk of secession and civil war is routine.
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Guest: Alastair Good, deputy head of video and audio, The Times and The Sunday Times. You can watch Alastair's full film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy6RQJQ6J5w
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Arlie Adlington.
Executive producer: James Shield.
Clips: CBS, ABC, BBC, C-SPAN, Radio Free Redoubt.
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Lebanon is in economic crisis with shortages of food, medicine and electricity on the ground. Today, how did the country, whose capital was once described as the Paris of the Middle East, get here? And is there hope for the future?
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Host: Manveen Rana.
Guest: Richard Spencer, middle east correspondent, The Times.
Clips: The Baim Collection: Soundtrackfrom 1961 film ‘This is Lebanon’, BBC, UPTIN, CNBC, Thames TV, Al Jazeera, Channel 4, RT.
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As delegates from almost two hundred nations gather in Glasgow for the COP26 climate conference, the stakes couldn't be higher. But can the conference succeed if the leaders of some of the world's biggest polluting nations haven't even turned up?
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Host: Manveen Rana.
Guest: Ben Spencer, science editor, The Sunday Times.
Clips: Al Jazeera, BBC, France 24, ITV, CNBC.
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Will this winter be good, bad, or somewhere in between? Today we take stock of the pandemic, and science editor Tom Whipple helps us imagine what might be just around the corner.
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Host: David Aaronovitch.
Guest: Tom Whipple, science editor, The Times.
Clips: BBC, CNBC, CBC, CBS.
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Perez Hilton was the original celebrity gossip blogger, who spared no one with his spiky, often malicious posts – and Britney Spears became a favourite target. As his actions come under fresh scrutiny, Sunday Times freelance writer Sarah Ditum assesses the impact he had on celebrity culture, and asks: how complicit were the rest of us?
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Host: Manveen Rana.
Guest: Sarah Ditum, freelance writer.
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