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Drowning in news? Let The Story guide you. 

Each morning, hosts Manveen Rana and Luke Jones bring you today's most important story, told by the journalists who know what really happened. 

In depth, honest, and mixed in with exclusive reports and groundbreaking investigations.

Discover the story behind the story with the flagship podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times.

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The Story

Across the Deep South, women raised to believe marriage was their destiny are now walking out, challenging the religious, cultural and political pressures that have shaped their lives. Meanwhile, the booming 'trad wife' movement, championed by conservative powerhouses like the late Trump supporter Charlie Kirk, is attracting a whole new generation of young women to embrace home and hearth and marry young. So, why are more marriages ending in divorce in the deep south than they are across liberal America? Could it mean the trad wife tradition will end in divorce?

This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory

Guest: Louise Callaghan, US correspondent, The Sunday Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Dave Creasey.

Read more: Meet the Deep South divorcees escaping life as trad wives

Clips: NBC, esteecwilliams.

Photo: Corey Arnold, The Times Magazine.

Get in touch: thestory@thetimes.com.

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Is the trad wife dream ending in divorce? - The Sunday Story

Tilly Norwood, the world's first 'AI actress' has rocked Hollywood, sparking union protests and denounced by actors such as Whoopi Goldberg, George Clooney and Emily Blunt. For some she's a threat to the artform, for others an inevitability. She'll never forget her lines, turn up late or fall drunk out of a bar. Tilly can appear in multiple films at once and even change her appearance at will. But what does her creator say? Is she the future of cinema? Eline Van der Velden tells her side of the story, from the A-list backlash, to developing Tilly's personality.

This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory

Host: Tom Whipple, science correspondent, The Times.

Producer: Dave Creasey.

Read more: I invented the AI actress Tilly Norwood. She’s no threat to Hollywood

Clips: NBC, CBS, Fox News, Particle6.

Photo: Getty Images.

Get in touch: thestory@thetimes.com.

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The world's first AI actress and 'her' creator - the Saturday story

The findings of the report into the political governance and decision making during the pandemic are damning about Boris Johnson’s government’s attempts to protect the public from the virus. Who was responsible for a “toxic and sexist culture” and who misled Downing Street?

This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory

Guest: Eleanor Hayward, health editor, The Times.

Host: Luke Jones.

Producer: Harry Stott.

Read more: Covid inquiry: eight key takeaways from the report

Clips: UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

Photo: Getty Images.

Get in touch: thestory@thetimes.com

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The week that cost 23,000 lives

President Trump has bowed to pressure from US lawmakers, including those in his own Republican party, to release files related to the investigation into the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. As leading MAGA figures start to rebel, we ask whether Trump has lost control over his base? 

This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory

Guest: George Grylls, Washington correspondent, The Times. 

Host: Luke Jones. 

Producers: Micaela Arneson, Olivia Case. 

Read more: Marjorie Taylor Greene: Americans won’t tolerate Trump’s Epstein files ‘bulls***’

Further listening: The new Epstein emails about Trump

Clips: BBC, Sky, PBS, MS Now / YouTube, Democrats / Facebook, Fox. 

Photo: Getty Images.

Get in touch: thestory@thetimes.com

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Why the Epstein files have split MAGA

In an attempt to court the favour of the post-Assad regime in Syria, western countries have recently de-proscribed former terrorist groups. What does that mean for those who were deprived of their citizenship for allegedly associating with those groups, back when the West banned them?

This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory

Guest: Anthony Loyd, special correspondent, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Taryn Siegel.

Read more: Rabies, Russians and a return to scene of my kidnap, 11 years ago.

Further listening: Palmyra: Syria's past, present and future.

Clips: The Guardian, CNN, The Times, France 24.

Photo: Anthony Loyd for The Times.

Get in touch: thestory@thetimes.com.

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Meet Britain’s most charming ‘national security threat’

Home secretary Shabana Mahmood announced sweeping changes to the asylum rules yesterday; the largest overhaul since the Second World War. The changes have apparently been inspired by Denmark but will they work or are they - as one Labour MP said - ‘repugnant’?

This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory

Guests: 

 • Ben Clathworthy, Whitehall editor, The Times.
 • Fraser Nelson, columnist, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers: Olivia Case, Micaela Arneson, Harry Stott. 

Read more: Shabana Mahmood speech: Asylum policy to cope with ‘volatile’ world

Further listening: Doomed to fail? Labour’s asylum u-turn

Clips: Sky, Times Radio, parliamentlive.tv.

Photo: Andrew Fox for The Sunday Times.

Get in touch: thestory@thetimes.com 

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‘Repugnant’ or necessary? The new asylum rules

From this year, 18 year-old Danish women will have to take part in a conscription lottery and face potentially being called up for an 11 month military service. The country is just one of many in Europe aiming to improve military resilience in response to the growing threat from Russia. But what does it mean to the teenagers caught up on the front line of this debate?

This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory

Guest: Katie Gatens, commissioning editor of news review, The Sunday Times.

Host: Luke Jones.

Producer: Edith Rousselot.

Further Reading: Denmark's drive to conscript teenage girls: "We're pretty scared"

Photo: Getty Images.

Get in touch: thestory@thetimes.com

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The teenage girls preparing for war

For the first time, scientists have successfully sequenced Adolf Hitler’s DNA, taken from a bloodstain in the bunker where he spent his final days. It's one of the most remarkable scientific studies in modern history, and the results are astonishing. They reveal a previously unknown medical condition, which finally uncovers the truth behind that famous wartime song, and resolve long-standing questions: Is Hitler of Jewish ancestry? Was he a schizophrenic? And what does his DNA tell us about evil?

This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory

Guest: Jack Blackburn, history correspondent, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Dave Creasey.

Clips: Times Radio, NBC, Channel 4/Blink Films UK.

Read more:

- Hitler had hidden genetic sexual disorder, DNA analysis reveals

- Sunken port may provide clue to Cleopatra and Mark Antony’s lost tomb

Photo: Shaun Parkinson/Getty Images.

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Hitler’s shocking DNA discovery – the Sunday Story

This is Planet Hope, a podcast from The Times and The Sunday Times in paid partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative. Each episode is hosted by The Story released as a bonus weekly series on Saturdays. 

Andreia Pawel is co-founder of the Orange River-Karoo Conservation Area, one of the world’s most ambitious rewilding projects. Spanning more than a million hectares in Namibia, and with the support of the Rolex Perpetual Planet Initiative, it aims to restore lost ecosystems, reintroduce species and work with local Nama communities to build a new model for conservation. She tells Adam Vaughan how, with bold ambitions, we can breathe new life into the natural world.

Planet Hope is brought to you in paid partnership with Rolex and its Perpetual Planet Initiative. 

Guest: Andreia Pawel, conservationist and co-founder, Orange River-Karoo Conservation Area

Host: Adam Vaughan, environment editor, The Times

Series producer: Priyanka Deladia

Sound designer: David Crackles

This podcast is advertiser funded.

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The Story presents: Planet Hope - A million-hectare conservation vision in Namibia

Negotiations at the annual global climate change conference, or COP, are in full swing. But with consensus on the issue collapsing at home and abroad, including the US withdrawing from the landmark Paris agreement, is there even any point in the summit? We ask the UK’s special representative for climate.

This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory

Guest: Professor Rachel Kyte, UK special representative for climate.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producers: Harry Stott, Olivia Case.

Read more: Ed Miliband: Cop30 will prove net zero doubters wrong

Further listening: Have we stopped caring about climate change?

Clips: United Nations / YouTube, TRT World, DW News / YouTube, Yahoo / YouTube, ITV, SABC News, News X World.

Photo: Getty Images.

Get in touch: thestory@thetimes.com

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Cop30 - is climate diplomacy cracking

As fighting intensifies between Israel and Hezbollah, who is the Iranian-backed group and could this new conflict break out into a wider, regional war?

This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory

Guests: 

 • Oliver Marsden, journalist, The Times.
 • Rami Khouri, journalist.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Olivia Case.

Clips: ITN, CBS, 13News Now, TMJ4 News, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, PBS, AP.

Photo: Getty Images.

Get in touch: thestory@thetimes.co.uk 

Further listening: Exploding pagers and Israel’s new phase of war.

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What is Hezbollah and can anyone avert all-out war?

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