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Last month Canada's prime minister Justin Trudeau called a snap election, hoping to capitalise on support for his pandemic response. With the election just days away, and polls showing a neck and neck race, could the move become one of Canada's biggest political miscalculations?

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Guest: Charlie Mitchell, Canada correspondent for The Times and Sunday Times.

Host: Calum Macdonald.

Clips: Ruptly, CBC, Soheil Koushan, Sun News, Global News, The Canadian Press, Reuters.

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A new law restricting abortions in the state of Texas could spell the end of the 1973 Supreme Court ruling which guaranteed access to abortion for women in America. Today: the legal history of abortion in the US, and the effect the new law might have.

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Guest: Mary Ziegler, Stearns Weaver Miller Professor at Florida State University College of Law and author of Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Clips: ABC, AP, BBC, CBS, Channel 4 News, CNBC, CNN, Global News, KMUW, NBC, PBS, WFAA.

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Since the internet boom in the mid-90s, San Francisco has become a tech superpower, overtaking Silicon Valley. The city has more billionaires per square mile than anywhere in the US, but it also has more homeless people. Danny Fortson meets the residents of its tent cities.

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Guest: Danny Fortson, West Coast correspondent, The Sunday Times.

Host: Calum Macdonald.

Clips: CNBC, CNN, Fox News, CBS.

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As people return to work and school, and Covid numbers continue to rise, just how normal might this autumn be?

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Guests:

-Jill Treanor, City Editor, The Sunday Times.

-Tom Calver, senior data journalist, The Times and The Sunday Times.

Presenter: David Aaronovitch.

Clips: BBC, Channel 4 News, ITV News, Number 10.

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

Research suggests that trans people are twice as likely to have been offered some form of conversion therapy than any other group in the LGBTQ+ community.

In this sixth episode of a seven-part series, reporter Emily Sargent speaks to Dr Kate Nambiar: an endocrinology specialist at a gender identity clinic, as well as being a trans woman herself. 

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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: 

-Dr Kate Nambiar, endocrinology specialist at a gender identity clinic.

Host: Emily Sargent, journalist.

Clips: LBC.

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Next month world leaders will come together in Glasgow for COP26, the annual UN climate change conference, where the fate of the planet hangs in the balance. The summit will be just the culmination of a long process; much of the real work happens now, in the days and weeks beforehand. So, as COP26 draws closer, are negotiations as far along as they need to be?

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Guest: Rachel Kyte, Dean of Fletcher School at Tufts University.

Host: David Aaronovitch.

Clips: 5 News, ABC News, BBC, CBS, Channel 4 News, DW News, euronews, On Demand News, PBS, Straits Times, The Royal Family.

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After 16 years as Germany's chancellor, Angela Merkel is exiting the international stage. What did the world's most powerful woman stand for, and what will her legacy be?

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Guest: Oliver Moody, Berlin Correspondent for The Times and The Sunday Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Clips: euronews, Channel 4 News, BBC Newsnight, ABC News.

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A hundred years ago last month, The Times published a series of articles proving the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a conspiracy theory that Jews were looking to control world governments, were a forgery.

In part two, David Aaronovitch dives into The Times archive to find out what happened after the proof was made public and why the conspiracy theory never quite went away.

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Guests:

-Rose Wild, Times writer.

-Liane MacIver, Times assistant archivist.

Presenter: David Aaronovitch.

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A hundred years ago last month, The Times published a series of articles proving the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a conspiracy theory that Jews were looking to control world governments, were a forgery. David Aaronovitch traces the story through The Times archive.

In part one, David looks at how the newspaper first covered the story of the Protocols and how one of our correspondents stumbled upon proof of the forgery.

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Guests:

-Rose Wild, Times writer.

-Liane MacIver, Times assistant archivist.

Presenter: David Aaronovitch.

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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 fifth episode of a seven-part series, reporter Emily Sargent explores the way faith intersects with the movement to ban 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: 

-Suzi Ruffell, Stand up comedian, podcast host.

-Steve Chalke, Founding minister of Oasis church.

-Peter Lynas, UK director of the Evangelical Alliance. 

-Ahmed Shaheed, UN special rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief. 

Host: Emily Sargent, journalist.

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