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My Mother's Murderinactive- A series of in-depth conversations from Britain's most forensic interviewer. Andrew Neil speaks to people with the power to shape events, and to influence our understanding of them. Subscribe to get a new episo...
- A collection of daily messages from inside Ukraine as the Russian invasion unfolds. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Recent Tortoise Media Episodes
- Publication Date | Jul 02, 2020Duration | 00:29:25Publication Date | Jul 02, 2020Duration | 00:29:25The royal family's finances are mysterious, and the strange formula which calculates the money they get from the taxpayer is badly understood. Tortoise has been going through the accounts. What they show is a f...
- Publication Date | Jun 25, 2020Duration | 00:31:13Publication Date | Jun 25, 2020Duration | 00:31:13Like a handful of football managers before him, Jurgen Klopp is fascinating as a leader. His ability to motivate people around him would be exceptional in any occupation, in any circumstances, and the connectio...
- Publication Date | Jun 18, 2020Duration | 00:51:29Publication Date | Jun 18, 2020Duration | 00:51:29Boris Johnson could have died from coronavirus. He recovered, but the costs to the country of his illness were huge. Government was paralysed without him and vital decisions weren't taken. How did things fall a...
- Publication Date | Jun 11, 2020Duration | 00:32:02Publication Date | Jun 11, 2020Duration | 00:32:02The protests on the streets of the United States and around the world have taken the authorities by surprise. But they haven't sprung from nowhere; they've sprung from attitudes and events dating back hundreds ...
- Publication Date | Jun 04, 2020Duration | 00:32:35Publication Date | Jun 04, 2020Duration | 00:32:35Amazon is a true economic superpower; a company of a scale and kind we haven't seen before. It's relentless in its pursuit of efficiency on behalf of its customers, but what does it believe in? How does it see ...
- Publication Date | May 28, 2020Duration | 00:24:22Publication Date | May 28, 2020Duration | 00:24:22It's not just the hopes of young people which depend on them going to university, whole towns and cities rely on them too. The British government estimated that education would be worth £23bn to the UK economy ...
- Publication Date | May 21, 2020Duration | 00:27:45Publication Date | May 21, 2020Duration | 00:27:45No part of British society has been harder hit by the coronavirus pandemic than care homes. 15,000 people have died there. Why were they uniquely vulnerable? Partly because they housed vulnerable people; partly...
- Publication Date | May 14, 2020Duration | 00:27:15Publication Date | May 14, 2020Duration | 00:27:15When coronavirus struck and the UK locked down, the government began paying the wages of furloughed workers. It's a hugely expensive policy. There are risks in continuing it but the risks of stopping may be eve...
- Publication Date | May 07, 2020Duration | 00:28:58Publication Date | May 07, 2020Duration | 00:28:58The Nightingale hospitals - huge intensive care hospitals built in a matter of days to deal with the overspill if regular hospitals couldn't cope with the numbers of coronavirus patients - are sitting empty. It...
- Publication Date | Apr 30, 2020Duration | 00:25:40Publication Date | Apr 30, 2020Duration | 00:25:40Claude Jibidar is country director for the World Food Programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo - a huge country beset with vast problems, not just food shortages but armed conflict and ebola as well. As th...