The Briefing Room Podcast
David Aaronovitch and a panel of experts and insiders present in-depth explainers on big issues in the news
Episodes to download
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Trump and Trade
Thu 9 Feb 2017
Can President Trump deliver on his promise to bring back outsourced manufacturing jobs?
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Trump and the Economy
Thu 2 Feb 2017
Will President Trump's plan to put 'America first' make the USA richer?
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India's Bonfire of the Bank Notes
Thu 26 Jan 2017
Why did India's prime minister ban the country's most widely-used bank notes?
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Drugs in West Yorkshire
Thu 19 Jan 2017
How did British-Pakistani gangs come to dominate the drugs trade in Yorkshire?
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Aleppo: After the Evacuation
Thu 12 Jan 2017
What happened after the buses left eastern Aleppo? David Aaronovitch finds out.
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Liberalism's Horrible Year
Thu 22 Dec 2016
What is Liberalism? And did it die in 2016 as both left and right wing media claim?
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Yemen: A Global Conflict
Thu 15 Dec 2016
What are the causes of Yemen's civil war and who is fighting?
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The Prison Problem
Thu 8 Dec 2016
What are the policies and political decisions which led to the current crisis in prisons?
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The Investigatory Powers Act a.k.a The Snoopers' Charter
Thu 1 Dec 2016
What powers does the so-called 'Snoopers' Charter' give to the intelligence services?
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VIP Sex Abuse Allegations
Thu 24 Nov 2016
How did police investigations into VIP sex abuse go astray?
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Infrastructure: The Roads to Recovery?
Thu 20 Oct 2016
Is building roads and bridges the best way to solve our economic woes?
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Black Lives Matter UK
Thu 13 Oct 2016
What does Black Lives Matter stand for in the UK? David Aaronovitch finds out.
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Europe's Illiberal Democracies
Thu 6 Oct 2016
Right-wing ideas once found on the political fringes are becoming increasingly mainstream
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Quantitative Easing
Thu 29 Sep 2016
Why has the Bank of England started creating new money to buy government debt again?
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A Ceasefire in Syria?
Thu 22 Sep 2016
Why is it so difficult to find peace in Syria, and what is getting in the way of a deal?
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Trotsky, Trotskyism and Trotskyites
Thu 8 Sep 2016
Are revolutionary socialists trying to take control of the Labour Party?
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Jesse Morton: The Jihadi Who Changed His Mind
Thu 1 Sep 2016
A former radical jihadi changed his mind and is now speaking out against extremism.
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Milo Yiannopoulos and the Alt-Right
Thu 25 Aug 2016
David Aaronovitch speaks to Milo Yiannopoulos about Donald Trump's new political base
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Grammar Schools
Thu 18 Aug 2016
Grammar schools, social mobility and the Tory party's love of educational selection.
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Who are the Special Forces?
Thu 11 Aug 2016
How have British Special Forces developed and what are they doing in Syria and Libya now?
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Britain's Nuclear Dream
Thu 4 Aug 2016
The government has delayed a proposed nuclear power station. What choices lie ahead?
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What Do Remainers Feel Now?
Thu 28 Jul 2016
More than 16m people voted Remain. How do they feel now that they have lost?
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Fethullah Gulen and Turkey's Failed Coup
Thu 21 Jul 2016
Turkey's president says the Gulen movement was behind a recent coup attempt - what is it?
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Why Did People Vote Leave?
Thu 14 Jul 2016
Leave voters in Wakefield tell David Aaronovitch why they want to quit the EU.
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The Chilcot Report: The Source Who Lied
Thu 7 Jul 2016
The story of the intelligence source who lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
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Immigration: Why Did it Rise?
Thu 30 Jun 2016
What are the political decisions and trends which led to record immigration to the UK?
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The New IRA
Thu 26 May 2016
Who are the New IRA - the dissident republicans who pose a substantial threat to Britain?
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Anti-Semitism on the Left
Thu 19 May 2016
David Aaronovitch explores why the Left might have a problem with anti-Semitism.
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The Truth About BHS
Thu 12 May 2016
BHS was once one of the biggest names on the high street, so why did it go bust?
