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It’s Super Bowl Sunday in America this weekend. But whispers from some corners of the internet suggest there’s a bigger game afoot. So just how did Taylor Swift find herself at the centre of a conspiracy theory involving America's biggest television event and a presidential election? And is there any truth to any of it?
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Guest: Ben Hoyle, Foreign Editor, The Sunday Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Clips: Recording Academy/GRAMMYs, MSNBC, NBC, NFLonFOX, Netflix, TikTok/NowThis, CNN, Taylor Swift, Restoring National Confidence Summit
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A quarter of people watching pornography are women, but why do we find it hard to comprehend? We speak to the author of a new book who has interviewed one hundred women about their porn habits - what can we learn about women’s pleasure?
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Guest: Dr Fiona Vera-Gray, deputy director at the Child and Women’s Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University, and author of Women on Porn: One hundred stories. One vital conversation.
Host: Jane Mulkerrins.
Clips: Times Radio, The Tomorrow Show/NBC.
Listen to Megan Agnew’s account of being inside an orgasm ‘commune’ here
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Israel’s prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is increasingly embattled, amid protests by the families of hostages calling for him to go. Could this crisis lead to his downfall?
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Guest: Anshel Pfeffer, Times contributor in Jerusalem and author of Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips: Reuters, CBC News, NBC News, American Jewish Committee, CNA, Channel 12 News, News9 Live, Face the Nation/CBS, Channel 4 News.
Listen to Amal Helles’s diary of life inside Gaza here.
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In an interview over the weekend, President Zelensky announced a major shake up in the Ukrainian army. It comes after a week-long battle between Zelensky and his top general. So after all of this internal disarray – how is the war seen right now by Ukrainians? Anthony Loyd returns from another trip to the country, where he embedded with brigades and met the men desperate to avoid conscription.
This episode contains frank descriptions of warfare.
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Guest: Anthony Loyd, Special Correspondent, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips: Telegram/Щоденник Вільного
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We hear the story of one woman who was stalked by her ex-boyfriend, as domestic abuse charities warn that young people are becoming accustomed to a high level of monitoring in romantic relationships. And one of our producers finds out first hand what it's like to be tracked.
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Guest: Constance Kampfner, News Reporter, The Times.
Host: Will Roe.
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Palestinian journalist Amal Helles has been reporting for The Times and The Sunday Times from Gaza since the Hamas attacks on Israel, and the beginning of the conflict in October. Foreign journalists aren't allowed unaccompanied into the territory, where she lives with her husband and two small children. So we’ve been talking to her via WhatsApp voice notes about life amid food shortages, bombing and evacuation.
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Guest: Amal Helles, journalist, The Times and The Sunday Times.
Host and Producer: Olivia Case.
Clips: France 24, Inside Edition, BBC, WSL, NBC, The Guardian, ABC, Al Jazeera, CBS, CTV, TRT World, ABC, WION, 13News Now, 13WMAZ, Channel 4, AP, PBS, The National, Reuters, DW News, Middle East Eye, Democracy Now, MSNBC.
Get in touch: storiesofourtimes@thetimes.co.uk
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A former adviser to the prime minister is working with a secretive group of Tories to remove him from office before the general election. MPs have been out publicly backing Rishi Sunak and denying their involvement, but it risks setting off yet another civil war in the party. So who are the rebels?
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Guest: Steven Swinford, Political Editor, The Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Clips: Times Radio, Parliament Live, 10 Downing Street, BBC News, BBC Radio 4 Today, Sky News, BBC Breakfast.
If you enjoyed this episode, you might like this one too: Keir Starmer’s Blairite playbook
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On Sunday, three American troops were killed in a drone strike on a US base in Jordan. At least 34 were wounded. The group responsible for the attack is one of the many Iran-backed militias that operate in the region, and they've now announced that they will halt further attacks on the US. So did Iran authorise the attack? And, at a time of such heightened tensions in the Middle East, is it a sign that Iran is losing control of its proxy forces - or preparing for war?
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Guest: Richard Spencer, Correspondent, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producer: Olivia Case.
Clips: Times Radio, Fox News, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, BBC.
Get in touch: storiesofourtimes@thetimes.co.uk.
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While UK students need straight As to get onto prestigious Russell Group degree courses, their international classmates can buy their way in through secret routes. An undercover Sunday Times investigation has already prompted an urgent review by the Department for Education.
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Guests:
- Jonathan Calvert, Insight Editor, The Sunday Times.
- George Arbuthnott, Deputy Insight Editor, The Sunday Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Get in touch: storiesofourtimes@thetimes.co.uk.
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OneTaste, the organisation behind the practice 'orgasmic meditation', was hailed as visionary at its peak. Since then, its leader, Nicole Daedone, has been arrested by the FBI on forced labour charges and her group has been branded a 'cult' – allegations they deny vehemently. But what is it? Sunday Times reporter Megan Agnew was invited to their California compound, The Land, to find out.
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Guest: Megan Agnew, News Features Writer, The Sunday Times.
Host: Jane Mulkerrins.
Clips: ABC7 News, YouTube/Rebecca Watson, Eros Platform @OneTaste, goop.
Get in touch: storiesofourtimes@thetimes.co.uk
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