Today’s podcast on the downfall of Jair (with the brilliant @helenpidd.bsky.social) www.theguardian.com/world/audio/...

For today’s podcast I went to talk to protesters outside my local asylum hotel in Stockport, as well as marchers at Tommy Robinson’s march to try to understand if the far right is now a mass movement podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... -ñ

This is a lot more interesting than Henry makes it sound

I’m so thrilled that the Guardian’s @helenpidd.bsky.social made an excellent Today in Focus podcast about the seaside town of Morecambe for Seascape’s Against The Tide series. Please do take a listen, it’s extremely thorough and full of inspiring young people www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Very cool to be nominated as best podcast host alongside some actual legends. Bet Louis Theroux is quaking in his boots. I’m nothing without the amazing Today in Focus team @theguardian.com #BritishPodcastAwards

Will the Epping hotel riots spark another summer of unrest? Spoke to @helenpidd.bsky.social on the Guardian’s Today In Focus Podcast www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Is manchester becoming too much like london? Come with me on a trip around a high rise city of OnlyFans creators, £6 pints and ever richer overseas students www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

It’s official - the north could not be in safer hands with @joshhalliday.bsky.social in charge. Defo recommend a midlife career pivot. www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/the...

It's my favourite day of the year: Whit Friday! I'm not playing in "the greatest show on earth" this year, just spectating. But here is my dispatch from the front lines of brass banding in 2016 www.theguardian.com/music/2016/m...

We are booked in to the stockport curry pyramid for our Manchester Guardian night out and I cannot wait on.ft.com/4kRAvxB%E2%8... Motorway icon turned buffet titan — Jay Rayner reviews the Royal Nawaab Pyramid @joshhalliday.bsky.social @hannahalothman.bsky.social @robynvinter.bsky.social

The great Today In Focus team of @helenpidd.bsky.social @alexatack.bsky.social and @samikent.bsky.social made an episode about Max and did him proud. You can listen to it here: www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

On today’s podcast, @archiebland.bsky.social talks about the day his son, Max, stopped breathing, and learning to advocate for a disabled child. This episode brims with love as well as rage at an ableist world and it was an honour to be trusted with Max’s story www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

8 years since the arena bomb 🐝 🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

And the winners of the Paul Foot Award for investigative and campaigning journalism 2025 are... Patrick Butler and Josh Halliday of The Guardian. #PaulFootAward2025 www.private-eye.co.uk/paul-foot-aw...

A Reform official in Runcorn tells @joshhalliday.bsky.social: “Those planning to vote Reform roughly fall into two groups: ‘those who set their alarm for work in the morning and are angry at those who don’t – and those who don’t.” How will they satisfy both? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

For today's pod I went on the road in Runcorn. Despite an obvious Reform surge, there are still voters keeping the Labour faith (sometimes reluctantly and often just to keep Farage out). Lots of love for Mike Amesbury too, in spite of those drunken punches. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Possibly the best Today in Focus ever, and it’s not one of mine: Michael Safi goes inside an Isis prison in Syria. So many astonishing scenes open.spotify.com/episode/639D...

Another favourite: my best friend @lexytopping.bsky.social and I talk about friendship across the parenting divide: what happens when one of you has kids and the other can’t. This one made listeners laugh and cry in equal measure: open.spotify.com/episode/0Siv...

Some of my favourite @todayinfocus.bsky.social episodes: meeting the Cork school kids behind the summer banger of 2024: The Spark. Joy from start to finish open.spotify.com/episode/55w7...

The Guardian's unbeatable North of England line-up: @joshhalliday.bsky.social, @hannahalothman.bsky.social and Chris Osuh in Manchester, @robynvinter.bsky.social in Leeds & Mark Brown in County Durham. Plus investigations supremos @maevemcclenaghan.bsky.social and David Conn.

Took a huge risk last year, leaving my (very good) staff job for a fixed term contract at the Guardian, and I am so happy to say it has paid off 🍾🎉🙌🏽 And congratulations to my esteemed colleagues, who have also had their roles made permanent after a brilliant almost-year in the job(s) 🎈🎊👏🏽

I’m not leaving the north, btw. I will carry on making lots of episodes out and about up here as well as from our studio in London.

I’m very happy to say that I’m staying on as a permanent presenter on the Guardian’s daily podcast, Today in Focus. The great @joshhalliday.bsky.social becomes North of England editor. Change is good!

I’m very chuffed to be nominated for best new presenter at the @radioacademy.bsky.social Arias 2025 alongside some really top notch people. Thanks to the excellent @todayinfocus.bsky.social team @theguardian.com for everything.

Today's episode is special - a bit of a weepy one but joyous too. @johnharris1969.bsky.social on how music — especially the Beatles and Kraftwerk — bridged a communication gap between him and his autistic son, James. We spent an afternoon in Somerset with them www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

On today's podcast I talk to teenage boys in Manchester about Adolescence, influencers, porn, toxic masculinity, girls and much more. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

This thread is heartbreaking - do read Josh’s story today

I absolutely love today’s episode, about having a baby with your best mate, instead of a romantic partner. That’s what @nicolaslawson.bsky.social did with her friend Tom podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Great to hear @bbcradio4.bsky.social Today programme follow up on our @theguardian.com investigation into the TV crisis this morning. Broadcasters, big production companies - speak to me about it! [email protected]

Here's my new guardian podcast on that Oval office meeting, and Donald Trump's betrayal of Ukraine. With thanks to @helenpidd.bsky.social and Today in Focus www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

A first for the @theguardian.com ⬇️ Paid work experience in London head office for working-class youngsters keen on journalism ✅ Must be 18 or older ✅ Help with accommodation costs ✅ Application deadline 30 March ✍️ workforus.theguardian.com/jobs/606/

A great example of what I think makes our podcast so special. My co-host Michael Safi takes a trip through the new Syria - it's funny, moving, sad and scary... and illuminating throughout. Production by @alexatack.bsky.social & sound by @tomglasser.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Really interesting chat on today's podcast with @ashifakassam.bsky.social about how Spain is opening its doors to immigrants while many country's are closing theirs www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Quite breathtaking cruelty from the DWP here - stopping a mum's carers' allowance when her daughter went into hospital for 5 weeks... as if she would spend that period miraculously working, instead of being at her child's bedside. By @joshhalliday.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I’m on today’s @theguardian.com Today in Focus podcast with @helenpidd.bsky.social talking about our undercover investigation into Lord David Evans of Watford. There’s more detail about the undercover reporting and why we did it. www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Delighted that from next week, I’ll be media editor for @theguardian.com. Huge questions wherever we look - changing consumption, online disruption, misinfo, the BBC’s future. And more than ever, so much power & politics at play. Can’t wait to start - get in touch, let’s talk! Contacts in bio.

I went on a road trip around Germany ahead of Sunday’s elections, as the far-right AfD are on the rise. It feels like an insecure and frightened country right now… www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Today’s podcast is @jennykleeman.bsky.social’s fascinating interview with the paralysed man who let Elon Musk put a chip in his brain. It’s funny and moving - and equal parts inspiring and terrifying www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

After last week’s press conference with new medical evidence in the Letby trial, fears for the safety of her conviction have moved from the fringes to the mainstream. @helenpidd.bsky.social speaks to Josh Halliday and Felicity Lawrence about what went wrong www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Gorgeous piece by @lexytopping.bsky.social about love, life, loss, history... and football and the indoctrination of my godson :) www.theguardian.com/football/202...

This week I also discussed Trump's plan to turn Gaza into the "Riviera of the Middle East" with the Guardian's diplomatic editor @patrickwintour.bsky.social - as well as what he's playing at with those tariffs www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Eva's piece is here, an elegy for comb overs and receding hairlines and a plea for the body acceptance movement to include bald heads as well as wrinkles and bellies www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

What it's like as a bald man in an increasingly hairy world - I loved talking to @heritage.bsky.social‬ and TiF legend Rudi Zygadlo for this episode, inspired by a gorgeous @evawiseman.bsky.social column asking whether baldness was a thing of the past www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

On today's podcast we follow two Gazans on their return home. It's a beautiful, heartbreaking episode full of little details that will stay with you - produced by @alexatack.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

On today's podcast @kateconnolly.bsky.social profiles Alice Weidel, the contradictory AfD leader who Elon Musk wants to become the next German chancellor. She's a lesbian in a party that is anti-gay marriage; a German nationalist who lives in Switzerland... www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

It was fascinating making this episode with @jennykleeman.bsky.social, about avatar therapy - where psychosis patients create digital demons to converse with. We speak to a woman whose life has been completely transformed after 40 wretched years of hearing voices www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

On today's podcast we take a trip to Greenland to discover why Donald Trump wants to take it over (with cash or by force) - and why the locals are not entirely against a closer relationship with the US www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

Morning, I’m onToday in Focus with our @helenpidd.bsky.social talking about what Rachel Reeves is trying to do in her speech today and what’s at stake: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

I was slow to listen but I’m so glad I hit play. A beautiful conversation about the work of true friendship between besties @helenpidd.bsky.social and @lexytopping.bsky.social (Made me feel warm and fuzzy about the Helens and Lexys in my life) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This is a cracking read from @robynvinter.bsky.social about getting snowed in at Britains highest pub www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...