Inside The Times Podcast
1) Christina Lamb on cobalt mining in the Congo
This episode starts in the mines of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where workers as young as nine risk their lives to feed the world’s growing hunger for cobalt – the metal used in iPhones and elec...Show More
2) Richard Spencer on the fall of Raqqa
It took an extraordinary military blitz to rout Isis from its de facto capital, Raqqa. The trauma and terror of those final days were witnessed first hand by Richard Spencer. Here he describes what it...Show More
3) Paul Morgan-Bentley on forced marriage in the UK
Sometimes scandals happen under our noses. Over several months our head of investigations set about exposing the government’s complicity in facilitating forced marriages. Here he explains how he disco...Show More
4) Catherine Philp on the Yemen crisis
What is it like to be one of the first journalists to bear witness to an unfolding crisis? Four years after the Saudi-led coalition entered the conflict in Yemen, 14 million people were facing a famin...Show More
5) Tim Shipman on government chaos
We kicked off 2019 with Theresa May’s Brexit deal getting the thumbs down in parliament and ended it with Boris Johnson as Britain’s prime minister following the result of a momentous general election...Show More
6) Jonathan Calvert on how Qatar bought the World Cup
How did a country with almost no football infrastructure or tradition, a high terrorism risk and searing summer temperatures become the host for the 2022 World Cup? When the Sunday Times Insight team ...Show More
7) Decca Aitkenhead on the future of pop
Billie Eilish is the home-schooled teenage superstar described by many as the future of pop. In an astonishingly honest conversation with our chief interviewer, Billie, who already has 25 million Inst...Show More
8) Anthony Loyd on finding Shamima Begum
Four years ago Shamima Begum, then aged 15, ran away from her home in Bethnal Green, London, to marry an Isis fighter. Nothing more was heard from her until our renowned war correspondent tracked her ...Show More