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From the archive: Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous – podcast

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The human stain remover: what Britain’s greatest extreme cleaner learned from 25 years on the job | Tom Lamont

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‘The forest had gone’: the storm that moved a mountain – podcast

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Life in a ‘sinking nation’: Tuvalu’s dreams of dry land – podcast

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‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader-Meinhof gang | Jason Burke

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From the archive: Sewage sleuths: the men who revealed the slow, dirty death of Welsh and English rivers – podcast

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‘I have to do it’: Why one of the world’s most brilliant AI scientists left the US for China

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Very British bribery: the whistleblower who exposed the UK’s dodgy arms deals with Saudi Arabia – podcast

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‘People pay to be told lies’: the rise and fall of the world’s first ayahuasca multinational – podcast

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‘We’ve done it before’: how not to lose hope in the fight against ecological disaster

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From the archive: ‘We were all wrong’: how Germany got hooked on Russian energy – podcast

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‘You want to talk about a world of lies?’ Teaching philosophy in prison | Jay Miller

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Dancing with Putin: how Austria’s former foreign minister found a new home in Russia – podcast

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Don’t call it morning sickness: ‘At times in my pregnancy I wondered if this was death coming for me’ – podcast

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From bank robber to scholar: the Knoxville dropout fighting to change how we see addiction

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From the archive: ‘We need to break the junk food cycle’: how to fix Britain’s failing food system – podcast

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‘What reconciliation? What forgiveness?’: Syria’s deadly reckoning

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The rise and fall of the British cult that hid in plain sight – podcast

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Best of 2025 … so far: ‘The Mozart of the attention economy’: why MrBeast is the world’s biggest YouTube star – podcast

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Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?

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