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Just after 8am this morning, patrol cars arrived at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, was arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office. What do we know? What happens next? And what does this mean for the palace? Our sister podcast, The Royals, brings you the latest.

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Guests:

• Harry Yorke, deputy political editor, The Sunday Times
• Charlotte Alt, news reporter, The Times

Host: Roya Nikkhah, royal editor, The Sunday Times

Producer: Robert Wallace

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Further listening: The Royals with Roya and Kate

Read more: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested for misconduct in public office

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The Board of Peace began with the grand ambition of reconstructing Gaza and securing a lasting end to one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. But with Donald Trump as chairman for life, its ambitions have grown: it wants to become a wider international peacekeeping organisation. As members meet for the first time in Washington DC, will their lofty ambitions translate into action on the ground? Or is it all just a vanity project?

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Guest: Gabrielle Weiniger, Israel correspondent, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Harry Stott, Olivia Case.

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Read more: Tony Blair to attend Trump’s inaugural Board of Peace meeting

Further listening: Trump's Greenland play and the future of transatlantic relations

Clips: OneIndia News / Youtube, AP / Youtube, CTV, BBC, Channel 4, ABC News.

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James Van Der Beek’s death last week at just 48 shocked fans, reignited fears about a disease we still associate with old age. Cases of bowel cancer are rising in those under 50, even as rates fall among the elderly. To find out why, researchers are turning to a century of preserved samples.

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Guest: 

• Ben Spencer, science editor, The Sunday Times
•  Professor Trevor Graham,  director, Centre for Evolution and Cancer
• Holly Masters, cancer patient 

Host: Manveen Rana

Producer: Julia Webster, Sophie McNulty

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Read more: Bowel cancer has doubled in under-50s: do the reasons lie in birth?

Further listening: Why are more young people getting cancer?

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The Labour Together scandal is the latest storm threatening to capsize the government - and Gabriel has been right at the heart. For the first time, he describes what happened when a Labour think tank set private investigators on a journalist. Their secret report falsely accused Gabriel of acting as a Russian agitator and "grotesquely subverted" his faith in an attack on his and his colleagues' reporting in The Sunday Times.

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Hosts: 

• Patrick Maguire, chief political commentator, The Times
• Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall editor, The Sunday Times

Producer: Euan Dawtrey.

Executive Producer: Dan Box.

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Further listening: ‘This is dark s***’: inside the political smear campaign to discredit journalists

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Labour Together, the think tank which helped Sir Keir Starmer become prime minister, has been accused of paying a PR firm to investigate Sunday Times journalists. The subsequent report contained personal information and false claims about Whitehall editor Gabriel Pogrund’s faith and family background, including the incorrect suggestion he was part of a Russian conspiracy to bring down Starmer. So why did a political organisation pay for a smear campaign against journalists?

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Guests: 

• Emanuele Midolo, investigations reporter, The Sunday Times. 
• Ben Clatworthy, Whitehall editor, The Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana. 

Producers: Julia Webster, Micaela Arneson. 

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Read more: Labour activists paid for smear campaign against journalists

Clips: BBC, Times Radio, Channel 4 News, ITV News, Sky News, GB News. 

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The Times’ Money desk has been investigating the UK’s student debt system – and has discovered some bombshells. After being promised a loan that would be like paying a ‘phone bill every month’, graduates are weighed down by tens of thousands of pounds in ever-increasing debt. So how did we get here? And is there a plan to fix it?

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Guest: Mary Downer, Money reporter, The Times.

Host: Luke Jones.

Producer: Sophie McNulty.

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Read more: Plan 2 student loan interest is unfair, says Lucy Powell

Further listening: The Budget unpacked

Clips: BBC, Parliament Live, ITN, Channel 4 News, LBC.

Episode artwork: Times Media.

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AI researcher Zoe Hitzig quit her job at OpenAI this week over “deep reservations” about the company’s strategy, including their decision to pilot running ads on ChatGPT. In a rare interview, she gives her reasons for leaving the industry - a world with access to "an unprecedented archive of human candour". Meanwhile, another AI researcher, this time at Anthropic, also quit with a the stark warning that "the world is in peril". They just the latest in a series of high profile resignations. So what's going on - and what are the big fears for a world increasingly dominated by AI?

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Guests:

• Zoe Hitzig, former AI researcher at OpenAI.
• Mark Sellman,Technology Correspondent for the Times.

Host: Manveen Rana. 

Producer: Dave Creasey.

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Read more: ‘The world is in peril’: AI researchers quit with public warnings

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Danny Finkelstein's mother survived Bergen-Belsen. When far-right activist Nick Fuentes began spreading antisemitic, pro-Hitler ideas, our writer challenged him. He wasn’t ready for the onslaught that ensued.

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Ready by: Danny Finkelstein, Times columnist, author and Conservative peer.

Producer: Dave Creasey.

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Read more: Daniel Finkelstein: How the world’s antisemites turned on me

Clips: TalkTV, CBS.

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It’s almost six weeks since America launched military strikes against Venezuela and captured its President over claims the country was flooding the US with drugs and migrants. But was this ever actually the intention, or is Trump more interested in syphoning off the country’s oil? Why is the old regime still in power – and what is life like for locals?

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Guest:  Stephen Gibbs, contributor, Latin America and the Caribbean, The Times and The Sunday Times.

Host: Manveen Rana. 

Producers: Olivia Case and Harry Stott.

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Read more: Ally of Venezuela’s opposition leader ‘kidnapped’ hours after being freed

Further listening: Prince William walks a tightrope in Saudi Arabia

Clips:  The White House / X, BBC, NBC, CNBC, CBS / 60 Minutes, Sky News Australia.

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It’s been almost a fortnight since the release of the Epstein files, and since then we’ve learned a lot about the disgraced financier’s connections to the rich and powerful. But what more have we learned about Jeffrey Epstein himself? Was he a foreign spy? And what do the files tell us about how the world is really run? 

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Guest: Josie Ensor, chief US reporter, The Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana. 

Producers: Micaela Arneson, Olivia Case. 

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Read more: Epstein’s victims: my six-year search for the truth

Further listening: Mandelson, Epstein and the fight for survival at No 10

Clips: Sky, AP, TalkTV, ABC News Australia, ITV, LBC, New York Post, CSPAN, House Oversight Committee.

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