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One week from today, Boris Johnson has a big decision to make. Is it time to declare 'freedom day' on the 21st of June? Or could the government be walking into another mistake?
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Guests:
- Henry Zeffman, chief political correspondent, The Times.
- Ravi Gupta, professor of clinical microbiology at the University of Cambridge and member of NERVTAG.
- Adam Finn, professor of paediatrics at Bristol Medical School, head of Bristol Children's Vaccine Centre and member of the JCVI.
- Robert Read, professor of infectious diseases at the University of Southampton and member of the JCVI.
- Christina Pagel, professor of operational research at University College London and member of Independent SAGE.
- Tim Spector, professor of genetic epidemiology at King's College London and principal investigator of the ZOE Covid symptom study app.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips from: Times Radio, Channel 4 News, BBC, Sky News.
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For much of the pandemic, university students have been confined to their halls for months on end. For some, drugs became a way to pass the time. But as lockdown lifts, will the rise in student drug taking have a more lasting impact?
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Guests:
-Megan Agnew, The Sunday Times Magazine commissioning editor.
-Claire, student.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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President Biden has launched a 90-day investigation into the origins of the virus, following reports which give fresh life to the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis. Once regarded as a conspiracy theory, the idea is now being taken seriously by both American and British intelligence. So what changed?
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Guests:
- Warren Strobel, national security reporter, Wall Street Journal.
- Tom Whipple, science editor, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips from: ABC, Sky News.
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In the middle of one of the world's most beautiful rivers, the Drina, there now floats an island of rubbish – with no one taking responsibility. How did a landscape already ravaged by war become blighted by the peace that followed?
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Guest: Hannah Lucinda Smith, correspondent for The Times covering Turkey and the Balkans.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips from: BBC.
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Living the British dream – as dozens of TV shows testify – has always meant owning your own home. But today, if you’re a millennial in a city, a dream is quite possibly what it will remain. What's stopping millennials from getting on the housing ladder?
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Guest: Charlie Gowans-Eglinton, Acting Fashion Editor, The Times.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
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It was a day that brought Westminster to a standstill. Today the Sunday Times Insight team analyses the nearly 7 hours of evidence the former Downing Street adviser Dominic Cummings gave to parliament last week. And we speak to relatives of those who died of Covid-19 about the questions still left unanswered.
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Guests:
Jonathan Calvert, Insight editor, The Sunday Times.
George Arbuthnott, deputy Insight editor, The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips from: Times Radio, BBC News, DW News, Sky News.
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On Sunday afternoon, a Ryanair flight to Vilnius made a sudden and dramatic landing in Minsk. In what some have described as state sponsored kidnapping, a prominent Belarusian opposition activist was marched off the plane by members of the Belarusian KGB.
What role has Russia played in this extraordinary episode? And with the clamour of international condemnation, will anything really change?
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Guest: Edward Lucas, Russia expert and columnist at The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips used: BBC News, Reuters, The Telegraph, Ruptly.
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Since the announcement of the divorce between Bill and Melinda Gates, a fuller picture of the Microsoft billionaire’s life is emerging. What could it mean for the world's biggest private charitable foundation – and what role might Jeffrey Epstein have played in the rift?
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Guests:
Josh Glancy, special correspondent, The Sunday Times.
Emily Glazer, business reporter, Wall Street Journal.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips from: CBS ABC, NBC, MSNBC, UN, Channel 4 News.
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The annual Sunday Times Rich List has identified a record-breaking 24 new billionaires this year. For many of us, it's been a bleak year with recurring lockdowns, businesses closed and workers furloughed. So how have these individuals managed to generate so much wealth, and what happens after the boom?
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Guest: Robert Watts, compiler of The Sunday Times Rich List.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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It happened on the 22nd of May 2017, when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb as attendees of an Ariana Grande concert were exiting the Manchester Arena, leaving 22 people dead and hundreds injured. An investigation by The Sunday Times has found that a notorious Libyan drug gang operating in Manchester may have had more to do with the attack than previously known.
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Guest: David Collins, Northern editor for The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips used: BBC and Sky.
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