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The Explanation

The Explanation

Podcast The Explanation
Podcast The Explanation

The Explanation

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Where the world is explained. Making sense of the big stories - looking behind the spin. More
Where the world is explained. Making sense of the big stories - looking behind the spin. More

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  • Unspun World: Can the US transform the world's economy?
    Can the US transform the world's economy? We get the detail - and why it matters for the rest of us - from economics editor Faisal Islam. And our host, the BBC’s world affairs editor John Simpson, asks Olga Robinson from BBC Verify how the new team goes about sorting fact from fiction in Russia's war with Ukraine. BBC Urdu's Farhat Javad examines what's next for cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan in Pakistan. And environment correspondent Helen Briggs marvels at thousands of newly discovered ocean creatures already at risk from deep sea mining. Produced by Pandita Lorenz and Benedick Watt
    3/6/2023
    27:51
  • Unspun World: Could AI outsmart humanity?
    Unspun World provides an unvarnished version of the week's major global news stories with the BBC's world affairs editor John Simpson and the BBC's unparalleled range of experts. This week, John finds out what it's like to report from the battlefield with Ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse; Asia Pacific editor Celia Hatton on President Xi's gameplan; how worried should we be about artificial intelligence, with technology editor, Zoe Kleinman, and what is fuelling the political, economic and social turmoil in Ecuador, with BBC's Mundo's Ana Maria Roura.
    27/5/2023
    27:52
  • Unspun World: Is Ukraine's counter-offensive a turning point?
    Unspun World provides an unvarnished version of the week's major global news stories, with the BBC's world affairs editor John Simpson and the BBC's unparalleled range of experts. This week John explores the ongoing war effort in Ukraine with BBC Monitoring's Vitaliy Shevchenko; the future of Turkey with international correspondent Orla Guerin; what President Assad of Syria's rehabilitation will mean for Syrians, with Middle-East correspondent Lina Sinjab, and he speaks to the BBC's science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh, about the pangenome. What is it, and how can it help humanity? Producers: Pandita Lorenz and Benedick Watt
    20/5/2023
    27:57
  • Introducing The Explanation
    On a mission to make sense of the world. A new podcast, with hosts John Simpson and Claire Graham. Episodes released weekly from 20 May 2023.
    17/5/2023
    1:19

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