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Ali G, the Met Gala backlash and cleavage’s big comeback

Ali G is back after more than 20 years, sparking a backlash over the character’s racist stereotypes with cinemas saying they’ll boycott the new film. And speaking of controversial comebacks, the planned John Galliano exhibition at the Met has been pulled, so this week we’re discussing cancel cultur…

Maro Itoje’s Leadership Secrets, The Player Most Likely To Go On 'Love Island' & England Career | The SLMan Podcast

Harvey James and Tunde sit down with Maro Itoje – captain of England, Saracens and the 2025 British & Irish Lions – for a wide-ranging conversation on rugby, leadership, style and what it really takes to perform at the highest level. Maro shares his approach to leadership, why authenticity and lead…

9/11: 25 Years On | The Reckoning | 3

Content warning: this episode describes torture, civilian deaths and the 2021 Kabul airport attack. Bin Laden is dead, al-Qaeda is shattered, and there was never another 9/11 — so who won? What does a war cost once you count the hospitals that closed and the food that never arrived? And what does i…

Inbox: The Falklands Campaign | Milei, Trump and Oil | Book Club

Why is a war fought 44 years ago back on the front pages? What happens when a combative president in Buenos Aires, a friend in the White House and an oil field due online in 2028 all point at the same islands? And, when 99.8% of the people who live there have already voted, whose islands are they t…

Dolly Parton | It's Dolly Parton's World and We're Living In It | 1

Who says no to Elvis Presley — and is proved right eighteen years later? How does a girl from a one-room cabin with no electricity work out the economics of music publishing before most of Nashville has? And, in an age that agrees on almost nothing, how did Dolly Parton end up claimed by drag queen…

Inbox: The Bayeux Tapestry and the Arrow Nobody Can Prove | Sue Brunning

Why are a million people about to queue at the British Museum for a strip of embroidered linen? What if the most famous picture of 1066 isn't a tapestry, was probably stitched in England, and treats the losing king as a hero? And, if the arrow in Harold's eye was stitched back in by 19th-century re…

Dolly Parton | Unproblematic White Queen | Feat. Kelechi Okafor |2

What were the taxi drivers of 1990s Accra playing on repeat? How does a woman who swore she was "not a bit political" write a hit about being used up and spat out by the system? And, what does it take for the most unmistakably white icon in American country music to become the unproblematic queen o…

Inbox: The Invisible Machine Behind Everything | Ed Conway

Why did the cod in your fish fingers go to China and back before it reached your freezer? What does a medieval king blocking English wool from Flanders have to do with Xi Jinping's grip on rare earths? And, if China can now build cars far more cheaply than Europe or America, could the West lose its…

The Earth Transformed | Her Story and the Natural World | 1

Why does the ancient Greek word for bravery come from the word for man, and what did bronze spears have to do with it? How does one of the coldest decades in 2,000 years end with around 100,000 women on trial for meddling with the weather? And, what links a woman blamed for a hailstorm in the 1590s…

Inbox: The Correspondent | The Power of Letter Writing | Book Club

What happens when an author gets rejected eight times, writes a ninth novel in hand-written letters, and ends up at number one on the New York Times bestseller list? Why are we so drawn to storytellers, tradwives, and 73-year-old law clerks who reject email in favor of pen and paper? And, what does…