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Today in Focus

Hosted by Michael Safi and Helen Pidd, Today in Focus brings you closer to Guardian journalism.  Combining storytelling with insightful analysis and personal testimonies, the podcast takes you behind the headlines for a deeper understanding of the news, every weekday.

And, in the run up to the US Election, Lucy Hough presents US Election Extra, a daily series of short updates, running alongside the regular Today in Focus podcast.

Today in Focus is unmatched in both scope and depth, delivering analysis and storytelling from right across the planet.  With a global network of over 900 journalists and five dedicated editions covering news in the US, UK, Australia, Europe, and beyond, the Guardian offers comprehensive reporting across every continent. Most recently we have introduced new correspondents in the Caribbean, South America and Africa.

8 January 2025

  • The backs of nine schoolboys in frockcoats on a moss-covered wall with trees behind

    Are private schools losing their grip on the British elite? – podcast

    Professor of sociology Sam Friedman charts the enduring influence of private schools in the making of the British elite and asks whether the Labour government is looking finally to curtail it

7 January 2025

  • An effigy of Yoon Suk Yeol covered in snow.

    The month that changed South Korea for ever – podcast

    Raphael Rashid and Haeryun Kang chart the turmoil that has engulfed the country over the past month, from a declaration of martial law to two impeachments and the worst domestic aviation disaster in its history

6 January 2025

  • Helen Pidd (left) and Lexy Topping

    Friendship across the parenting divide - podcast

    Helen Pidd and Alexandra Topping have been close friends for almost 20 years. But infertility and the struggles of parenting tested their bond to the limit

3 January 2025

  • Luke Littler celebrates with a fist pump.

    How Britain fell in love with darts - podcast

    Helen Pidd attends the PDC World Darts Championship to find out why the sport has grown in popularity in recent years

2 January 2025

  • A man jumps into a mountain beck pool to join other bathers

    How to have a perfectly imperfect 2025 – podcast

    Instead of making grand new year’s resolutions, the smallest steps could lead to a more joyful life, says Oliver Burkeman

1 January 2025

  • Midshot of Tracey with arm around Lisa, both smiling

    Revisited: Ten years of equal marriage – what has it changed? – podcast

    It’s a decade since the first same-sex marriages were performed in England and Wales. What have they meant for LGBTQ+ people?

31 December 2024

  • Aamna Mohdin photographed in London, May 2024, for Guardian Saturday magazine. Photographer: Alice Zoo

    Revisited: From child refugee to Guardian reporter: one journalist’s extraordinary story – podcast

    How does it feel to report on the refugee crisis when it’s also the story of your own family? Aamna Mohdin explains

30 December 2024

  • Mina Smallman (Photograph by Graeme Robertson)

    Revisited: The mother who forgave her daughters’ killer – but not the police – podcast

    Mina Smallman’s world fell apart after the murder of her two daughters. Then came a shocking revelation about the police’s behaviour. She explains how she found the strength to fight back

27 December 2024

  • Khalil Ayaz and Detective Chief Inspector Sue Hill photographed in the Car Park in Richmond where Mohammed Ayaz's body was found. 01/07/2024 Richmond,

    Revisited: The man who fell to Earth – podcast

    Twenty-three years after Mohammed Ayaz fell from the wheel bay of a plane coming in to land at Heathrow, his brother visits the car park where the body was found. Esther Addley reports

26 December 2024

  • Christian Cooper leans against a tree trunk while clutching binoculars, in Central Park, New York

    Revisited: The birdwatcher fighting racism in public spaces – podcast

    A Central Park birdwatching incident went viral after Christian Cooper filmed a white woman threatening him. Now he is using his platform to share his passion for nature

25 December 2024

  • Children from the Kabin Crew and the Lisdoonvarna Crew on a bus

    Revisited: Creating The Spark: the kids behind 2024’s surprise summer hit – podcast

    Rory Carroll and Helen Pidd meet the Kabin Crew and the Lisdoonvarna Crew – creators of a song that has notched up more than a billion plays on TikTok – as they perform at the Electric Picnic music festival

24 December 2024

  • Donald Trump, with blood on his face, punches the air as he is surrounded by security after an assassination attempt

    How the Guardian reported 2024 – podcast

    It was a year that saw multiple elections across the world, the war in Ukraine grind on and the conflict in Gaza spill over into Lebanon. Katharine Viner explains what it looked like from the editor’s chair

23 December 2024

  • Pupils sit and write around a table as a tutor speaks

    A radical way to teach contested history – podcast

    Helen Pidd visits Lancaster Royal grammar school to see the work of Parallel Histories, an education charity which helps young people make sense of contested history

20 December 2024

  • MANCHESTER, 17th December 2015 - Guardian writer Helen Pidd at home in Manchester with her Syrian lodger, Yasser. (Credit: Christopher Thomond, The Guardian)

    Yasser’s story: the Syrian refugee who lived with me - podcast

    Helen Pidd speaks to her former lodger, Yasser, a Syrian refugee contemplating moving back home

19 December 2024

  • The Port Talbot steelworks

    Can a steel town survive if its furnaces are turned off? – podcast

    Port Talbot in Wales is defined by its huge steelworks. But in January Tata Steel announced it was ending primary steelmaking there. George McDonagh charts a year that could change the town for ever

18 December 2024

  • Chinese spy Yang Tengbo (in glasses Andrew pointing at him)) with Ambassador Liu and Prince Andrew, Duke of York December 12, 2018 at St. James' Palace in London Jess Elgot confirmed identity. Taken from https://www.mfa.gov.cn/gjhdq_676201/gj_676203/oz_678770/1206_679906/1206x2_679926/201812/t20181214_9354750.shtml

    The prince and the ‘spy’ – podcast

    Prince Andrew is in trouble again, this time for meeting a Chinese businessman accused of spying for China. Dan Sabbagh and David Pegg report

17 December 2024

  • Abu Mohammed al-Jolani speaking in front of a crowd

    The reformed jihadi? Al-Jolani, the new most powerful man in Syria - podcast

    International security correspondent Jason Burke explores the life of Syrian rebel leader Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, and asks whether he has genuinely reformed from his hardline al-Qaida past

16 December 2024

  • Donald Trump at a rally holding up his right fist

    ‘The most beautiful word in the dictionary’: Donald Trump’s tariff plan – podcast

    Guardian US business editor Dominic Rushe explains why the president-elect wants to impose tariffs on imports, and the risks it poses to the economy. Senior China correspondent Amy Hawkins talks through the potential of a wider retaliatory trade war with China.

13 December 2024

  • Molly Roden Winter shot for OM

    Revisited: Have open marriages gone mainstream?

    From therapy sessions to bookshelves, interest in non-monogamous relationships seem to be soaring

12 December 2024

  • 'Unabomber' Ted Kaczynski found dead in prison aged 81<br>epa10683962 A handout booking photo from 1996 made available by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on 10 June 2023 shows Ted Kaczynski, also known as the 'Unabomber', (issued 10 June 2023). According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Kaczynski was found dead on 10 June 2023 aged 81 in the prison where he was serving a life sentence. Kaczynski mailed or placed bombs over seventeen years killing three and injuring more than 20 people before being caught in 1996. EPA/FBI HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

    Revisited: The Unabomber and his ongoing influence

    Ted Kaczynski, the Harvard-educated mathematician who ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people, died in prison last year. But his manifesto promoting violent rebellion against the modern world continues to inspire copycat attacks
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