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Cannabis is far stronger than it used to be, and psychosis rates are soaring. What's causing some cannabis users to develop mental health issues, and how can they be treated? 

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Guest: Megan Agnew, commissioning editor, The Sunday Times Magazine

Host: Calum Macdonald.

Clips: Howard Stern show, ITV, Channel 4 News.

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Insulate Britain has staged sit-ins on the M25 and on the roads to Heathrow and the Port of Dover. The protesters are willing to risk going to prison for the cause. Who are they? And will they succeed?

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Guest: Tom Ball, reporter for The Times.

Host: Calum Macdonald.

Clips: BBC, ITV, ITN, LBC, Insulate Britain.

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Clarence House is caught up in a scandal involving a Russian banker, a group of royal fixers and a £500,000 donation that went missing. The Sunday Times has been investigating the practice of paid intermediaries taking money from wealthy donors in exchange for honours and access to the Prince of Wales. How damaging are the revelations? And what do they mean for the future king?

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Guest: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall Correspondent, The Sunday Times. 

Host: Calum Macdonald.

Clips: BBC, Sky News, Leus Family Foundation.

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In 2004 Andrew Malkinson was sentenced to life in jail after a 33-year-old mother of two was raped and left for dead on a Greater Manchester roadside. But he’s always maintained his innocence. In the first part of this new series, award-winning investigative journalist Emily Dugan meets Andy to try to understand his story. 

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Host: Emily Dugan, reporter at The Sunday Times.

You can listen to the full series in one place on The Reporter podcast feed.

If you have any information that you want to share on Andy's case or remember anything from the time, you can contact Emily Dugan directly on email: [email protected] or by direct message on twitter: @emilydugan

If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help:

Rape Crisis England & Wales

NHS - Help after rape and sexual assault

Criminal Cases Review Commission

Appeal - Charity and law practice

Clips: AP & BBC.

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Until last week, it was one of the government's most closely guarded secrets. Only about ten people in Britain had been privy to the details.

And then – out of the blue – the UK, the US and Australia unveiled a new strategic alliance. The deal promises nuclear-powered submarines for Australia, and renewed security in the Indo-Pacific region. Today we look at how the announcement has been met in Southeast Asia, where tensions over the South China Sea continue to grow.

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Guest: Richard Lloyd Parry, Asia editor, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Clips: Sky News, The Guardian, The Telegraph.

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In her two years as Home Secretary, Priti Patel has cultivated an image as a hardliner on immigration. Despite all her tough talk, the extent to which she's achieved anything concrete is debatable, and this summer has seen record numbers of migrants crossing the channel. With the Nationality and Borders Bill -- a radical overhaul of asylum laws -- making its way through parliament, will Patel finally get the crackdown she's been gunning for?

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Guest: Matt Dathan, home affairs editor, The Times

Host: Calum Macdonald.

Clips: ITV News, Sky News, Channel 4, London Business School, The Guardian, Telegraph, GB News, Channel 5.

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Award-winning journalist Emily Dugan from The Sunday Times investigates a potential miscarriage of justice, which could have cost a man nearly two decades of his life wrongfully behind bars. 

The new six-part investigative series begins this Friday 24th September here on Stories of our times, with each episode released every Friday.

You can listen to the full series in one place on The Reporter podcast feed.

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It's been an intense year for the BBC: budget cuts, a series of staff departures and redundancies, accusations of bias… and now, it has a hawkish new culture secretary to contend with. Plus, just around the corner, a new deal with the government over the licence fee is widely expected to shrink budgets further. How will the BBC look and sound for future generations?

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Guest: Rosamund Urwin, media and technology correspondent, The Sunday Times. 

Host: Calum Macdonald.

Clips: ITV, BBC, LBC, Channel 4 News, GB News, Parliament TV, CNN, Bloomsbury Publishing.

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Violence and neglect are rife in unregistered schools across the UK. We explore how a legal loophole allows these establishments to operate under the radar, ignoring basic educational and safeguarding standards. With inspectors powerless to intervene, the abuse continues.

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Guest: Tom Ball, reporter for The Times.

Host: David Aaronovitch.

Clips: BBC.

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Attempts at conversion therapy are taking place across the country: in village churches, Harley Street clinics and counsellors' treatment rooms. 

In this final episode of a seven-part series, reporter Emily Sargent turns her attention to Westminster. 

What's happened in the three years since the Government pledged to end the practice of conversion therapy?  

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If you, or someone you know, has been affected by the issues raised in this episode, the following organisations can help:

Switchboard provides an information, support and referral service for anyone who needs to consider issues around their sexuality.

Phone: 0300 330 0630 (10am-10pm).

Samaritans is available for anyone struggling to cope and provide a safe place to talk 24 hours a day.

Phone: 116 123

Guests: 

Matthew Hyndman, co-founder, Ban Conversion Therapy. 

Jayne Ozanne, director and founder, Ozanne Foundation; chair, Ban Conversion Therapy Coalition.

Reverend Jide Macaulay, founding Pastor and CEO, House Of Rainbow.

Joe Hyman, LGBTQ+ activist and conversion therapy survivor. 

Peter Lynas, UK director, Evangelical Alliance.

Chris Csabs, co-author and co-founder, SOGICE Survivors.

Host: Emily Sargent, journalist.

Clips: X-Out-Loud, BBC, Core Issues Trust, ITV.

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