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Abu Dhabi-owned Manchester City, England's top club, has launched unprecedented legal action against the Premier League - the league it plays in. With such vast sums at stake, what does it mean for the future of British football - and what of the consequences beyond the pitch? 

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Guest: Matt Lawton, Chief Sports Correspondent, The Times. 

Host: Luke Jones.

Clips: Times Radio, Sky Sports News, Talk Sport. 

Further listening: Cocaine and kids: The new face of football hooliganism

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French president Emmanuel Macron has called a snap election after his party was soundly defeated by the hard-right opposition in Sunday’s EU elections. The National Rally has been boosted by young voters, personified by the 28-year-old president of the party Jordan Bardella. So why are France’s youth shifting to the right?

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Guest: Peter Conradi, Europe Editor, The Sunday Times. 

Host: Luke Jones. 

Clips: TikTok/@rnational_off, Jordan Bardella, Reuters, AFP, Financial Times, TikTok/@jordanbardella, ABC News, NBC News. 

Further listening: 

• The far-right plot to overthrow the German state
• How Italy’s hard-right claimed JRR Tolkien

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It's one of the world's biggest killers but cancer is usually more associated with people in the later stages of life. While that's still largely the case, increasing numbers of younger people seem to be getting the disease. So what could be behind the rise?

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Guests:

• Molly Guinness, Times Radio Executive Producer.
• Eleanor Hayward, Times Health Editor.

Host: Luke Jones.

Clips: BBC; You, Me and the Big C.

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From Pennsylvania to New Jersey to Tennessee, The Times’ Megan Agnew spent three weeks on the Taylor Swift trail, discovering the origins of the supersonic star. How does someone go from teenage guitarist to pop phenomenon? Was her fame just luck and talent, or was there a master plan behind it all?

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Guest: Megan Agnew, Senior Features Writer, The Times and The Sunday Times.

Host: Jane Mulkerrins.

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Further listening: Taylor Swift and the ‘Super Bowl plot’ to swing the election

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This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times in partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative, hosted by The Story as a bonus weekly series each Sunday.

The Agumbe, known as one of the rainiest places in India and a sanctuary to king cobras, holds one of the last surviving low-land rainforests. However, after years of logging and hunting native reptiles the rainforest, which plays a crucial role key to India’s rain patterns, is under threat. Environment Editor for The Times, Adam Vaughan is joined by one of India’s leading conservationists and renowned herpetologists, Romulus Whitaker, to learn more about the research centres that are bringing hope to the future of the Agumbe and beyond. 

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To mark 80 years since D-Day, we revisit the remarkable story of a young man who travel the world to interview surviving World War II veterans. 25-year-old Rishi Sharma sleeps in a rental car and eats one meal a day, but says it's worth it as he wants the next generation to remember the sacrifices made during the Second World War.

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Guests: 

• Will Pavia, New York Correspondent, The Times. 
• Rishi Sharma. You can watch Rishi’s interviews on his YouTube channel, ‘Remember WWII with Rishi Sharma’: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRikw4uCjS8ck3O9Mj-N35Q 

Host: Manveen Rana.  

Clips: YouTube, CBS, Participant. 

This episode was first published on 6th March 2023.

This weekend, The Times & Sunday Times have opened the paywall. Read Will Pavia's original report here.

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When the #MeToo movement first emerged in America in 2017, women in France spoke out about their own experiences, but it’s taken until this year to feel things might be changing. Is France’s glittering cinema industry, and society in general, ready to address cultural issues of consent and historical sexual abuse? 

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Guest: Caroline Séquin, Assistant Professor of History at Lafayette College.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Clips: France 24, Euronews, Golden Globes Youtube, Le Monde, AP News, France Inter, France 2.

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Find out more about our bonus series for Times subscribers: 'Inside the newsroom'

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 Is Labour as safe as it seems? Why do some of our votes matter ‘more’ than others? And what do polls tell us about who we really are? We take a deep dive into it all from the man behind the concept of the ‘red wall' - including why Mondeo Man and Worcester Woman aren't all they're cracked up to be.

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Guest: Pollster James Kanagasooriam, chief research officer, Focaldata.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Olivia Case.

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Further listening:

Sir Keir Starmer, the man who could be Prime Minister.

Nigel Farage is standing. Are the Tories in deep trouble?

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Nigel Farage has promised to lead a “political revolt” as he announced his return to frontline politics as the new leader of Reform UK - and as a candidate in the Essex seat of Clacton. The Conservatives are already well behind in the polls - so with the general election now just four weeks away, could this mean disaster for the Tories?

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The other candidates announced as standing in Clacton so far are:

• Giles Watling, Conservative Party.
• Jovan Owusu-Nepaul, Labour Party.
• Matthew Bensilum, Liberal Democrats. 
• Natasha Osben, Green Party. 

A full list will be published after nominations close on Friday. 

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Guest: Harry Yorke, Deputy Political Editor, The Sunday Times. 

Host: Luke Jones. 

Clips: BBC Radio 4 Today, Sky News, The Telegraph, Reform UK.

Further listen: Sir Keir Starmer, the man who could be Prime Minister 

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He's the first ever former president in American history to be a convicted felon. Found guilty on 34 separate counts, Donald Trump could now face jail. So what does the verdict mean for him personally, for the presidential election and for a deeply divided America?

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Guest: David Charter, Assistant Editor (US), The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Clips: NBC News, Sky News, BBC News, Fox News, RealAmericasVoice.

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