Episodes
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CJ Davis was shot dead and killed in east London in 2017. He was 14 years old. In part two of this special series, we explore how he was forced to leave mainstream education and attend a pupil referral unit, precipitating a fall into a criminal world.
Host: John Simpson, the Times' crime correspondent.
Investigation: If you have something you’d like to tell us you can reach the podcast team by phone, WhatsApp, email and Instagram: 07535-785-774, wkcjd.tips@gmail.com and @wkcjdtips.
Anyone with information can also contact the police on the dedicated incident room number of 020 8345 3775, or 101. You can also make contact via Twitter @MetCC. To give information anonymously contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or online at crimestoppers-uk.org. The Metropolitan Police Service offers a £20,000 reward for anyone who can provide information leading to the identification and conviction of the person(s) responsible for CJ's murder.
Original Music by Cam Shuck - satellitestudios.co.uk.
Clips used: UK Drill YouTube channel.
Additional music by Jordan Powell (licensed under Creative Commons).
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The NRA is one of America's most powerful lobby groups. Now it has become the target of a lawsuit brought by New York's attorney-general. The organisation stands accused of "years of self-dealing and illegal conduct" by its top executives. The lawsuit could spell the end of the NRA, but could it change minds about the role of guns in American society?
Guests:
Henry Zeffman, Washington correspondent for The Times.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
Clips used: History Channel, C-SPAN, ABC7NY, Bloomberg, CNN, NRA, Reagan Library, Global News, CNBC, ABC News, Jared Law.
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It's official: the UK economy is back in recession. This week we've heard of record-high job losses and a sharp economic downturn - but the worst could still be to come.
Guest: Gurpreet Narwan, economics correspondent, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips: BBC, ITV, Sky News.
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President Trump has ordered firms to stop doing business with social media giant TikTok over security concerns. Microsoft was the front-runner to buy the company, but now Twitter has emerged as a possible suitor. What has made the app so popular and so controversial?
Guests:
Danny Fortson Sunday Times west coast correspondent.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips used: NBC, Tik Tok, ABC Australian, Biteable, France 24, CNBC, Fox News, Huffington Post, ABC News.
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In one heart-stopping moment last Tuesday, Beirut, a city that’s seen its share of wars, was rocked by the biggest blast in its history. Now that international donors have pledged a quarter of a billion euros in aid for Lebanon, can the country begin to rebuild?
Guest
Richard Spencer, the Middle East correspondent for The Times.
Ghadi Sary, Middle East consultant and journalist.
Melissa Ajamian, instructor in the Department of Political Studies at the American University of Beirut.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips used: FRANCE 24, BBC, CBC, CNN, Sky News.
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Content warning: description of suicidal ideation.
In the first of a special series on Stories of Our Times, The Times' crime correspondent John Simpson attempts to work out who killed a 14-year-old boy in broad daylight back in September 2017 in Newham, east London. CJ Davis' murder has never been solved but the case remains active.
Host: John Simpson, The Times' crime correspondent.
Support numbers: If you’ve been affected by anything in this programme contact Samaritans for free on 116 123.
Investigation: If you have something you’d like to tell us you can reach the podcast team by phone, WhatsApp, email and Instagram: 07535-785-774, wkcjd.tips@gmail.com and @wkcjdtips.
Anyone with information can also contact the police on the dedicated incident room number of 020 8345 3775, or 101. You can also make contact via Twitter @MetCC. To give information anonymously contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 or online at crimestoppers-uk.org. The Metropolitan Police Service offers a £20,000 reward for anyone who can provide information leading to the identification and conviction of the person(s) responsible for CJ's murder.
Original Music by Cam Shuck - satellitestudios.co.uk.
Additional music by Jordan Powell, Daniel Birch and Breakmaster Cylinder.
Actors: Praise Aguda, Tione Chance.
Clips used: BBC, ITV, UK Drill YouTube channel.
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At the eastern end of the Sunset Strip is a hotel called Chateau Marmont. For many years it's been the favourite hang-out spot of movie stars and writers; but now the Chateau’s owner has announced the hotel is about to become a private members club. What does the change mean for the future of the iconic venue?
Guests:
Shawn Levy, author of The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont.
Jenn Hoffman, former US Weekly reporter.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
Clips used: OSSA, TMZ, WGN News, CineStars, CBS News, Graham Norton Show, Access Hollywood, Movieclips, Warner Bros Entertainment.
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75 years ago this week, a devastating atomic bomb changed world history. What can we learn from these events?
Guest:
Koko Kondo, Hiroshima bomb survivor and peace campaigner.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips used: NBC, Imperial War Museum, US Army.
You can hear more first-hand memories of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of the Second World War by listening to Voices of War at Imperial War Museums’ website iwm.org.uk/victory
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Stories about the persecution of China’s Muslim Uighur minority have been in the news in recent weeks. We hear the story of one man living in Turkey: Abdurehim Parac, a Uighur poet in exile.
Guests:
Hannah Lucinda Smith, Times Istanbul correspondent.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips used: France 24, Sky News Australia, BBC, Channel 4 News, South China Morning Post, Al, Jazeera, PBS, CNBC.
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A High Court case been brought by a young man whose family were shot dead by a rogue SAS unit in Afghanistan. The trial has led to the release of documents which suggest a horrifying pattern of night-raid killings, cover-ups and ‘collective amnesia’ by soldiers in a crack army special forces unit.
Guests:
Jonathan Calvert, Insight Editor, The Sunday Times.
George Arbuthnott, Deputy Insight Editor, The Sunday Times.
David Collins, Northern Correspondent, The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana
Clips used: Guardian, CNN, BBC.
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Why did the Duke and Duchess of Sussex really quit royal life? A new book purports to take readers into their inner sanctum.
Guests:
Valentine Low, Times Royal correspondent.
Andrew Billen, Features writer.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips used: CNBC, ABC, NBC, Euronews, ITV.
Additional music: Meydan (licensed under Creative Commons).
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Wiley - rapper, producer and godfather of grime - has been dropped by his management following an antisemitic Twitter tirade. In the wider conversation that followed, were Black British Jews left out?
Guests:
Nadine Batchelor-Hunt, journalist and podcaster.
Will Hodgkinson, chief rock and pop critic for The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips used: Sky News interview with Wiley, 5 News, i24 News and Smithsonian channel.
Song credits: Asylum, Warner, INCredible, Sony.
Additional music: Nctrnm (licensed under Creative Commons).
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13 year old Christopher Kapessa died in July last year after he was pushed from a bridge over the Cynon river in Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales. The Crown Prosecution Service concluded that it was a “foolish prank”. Did racism play a role in his death and the subsequent police investigation?
Guests:
Alina Joseph, mother of Christopher Kapessa.
Hilary Brown, lawyer for Alina Joseph.
Suresh Grover, founder of The Monitoring Group.
Jude Lanchin, solicitor at Bindmans.
Additional music: Jordan Powell (licensed under Creative Commons).
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How do you pick a potential vice president of the USA? With less than a hundred days to go until the American elections, the Democrats still have one major decision to make: Joe Biden’s running mate. Stories of our Times presenter Manveen Rana speaks to The Times' US Editor David Charter about who might get the nod and what their choice might say about Biden's campaign.
Guests:
David Charter, Times US Editor.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips: CNBC, CBS, CNN, Fox News, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, NBC, HBO, California Assembly, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Karen Bass.
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At the start of the pandemic, two million of the most vulnerable people in England were told to 'shield' in order to remain safe. This week, the national shielding programme is being put on pause. With hundreds of new coronavirus cases being reported every day, is it too soon? And what will happen to the people most at risk?
Guests:
Sean O'Neill, chief reporter, The Times
Charlotte Augst, chief executive, National Voices
Judi, shielding in Northampton
Lindsay, shielding in Sheffield
Host: Manveen Rana
With thanks to Our Covid Voices: https://ourcovidvoices.co.uk/
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On today's programme we take a break from the news. Anthony Loyd is The Times' foreign correspondent, and one of the most experienced and respected war reporters of his generation. When he goes off to war zones he always takes one essential tool: his fishing rod.
Guest:
Anthony Loyd
Host: David Aaronovitch
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While Westminster deals with the fallout from one Russian affair, today’s Stories of our Times podcast is about the couple who blew the whistle on Russia’s state sponsored doping operation in sport. The Sunday Times’ chief sports writer David Walsh told their story to Manveen Rana.
Guests:
David Walsh, Sunday Times chief sports writer and
Vitaly and Yuliya Stepanov, Russian whistle blowing couple.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips: CBS, ARD, WADA, CGTN
Additional music: Meydan & Scott Holmes (licensed under Creative Commons)
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China has cracked down in Hong Kong, Britain has banned the Chinese technology giant Huawei from its 5G network, and there’s growing disquiet about human rights abuses against China’s Uighur minority. Are we heading for a cold war with China?
Guest:
Lucy Fisher, Defense Editor for The Times
Host:
David Aaronovitch
Clips: BBC, Talkradio, UK parliament.
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Over the last fortnight, Scotland has recorded many fewer deaths from Covid-19 compared to the UK as a whole. Does Scotland have a strategy the rest of Britain can learn from?
Guests:
Mark McLaughlin, Politics and Education Correspondent, The Times in Scotland
Devi Sridhar, Professor of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh
Host:
Manveen Rana
Clips:
BBC, Scottish Government
You can hear Cathy Newman's recent interview with Nicola Sturgeon for Times Radio here.
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A spate of high profile burglaries in expensive neighbourhoods and a mountain of stolen goods lead investigators to discover hundreds of burglars, all on holiday in the UK to commit their crimes. The Times’ crime correspondent explains how these individuals operate and the Sunday Times’ Matthew Campbell tells of his trip to Chile to track down the families of those convicted in the UK.
Guests:
John Simpson, Times crime correspondent.
Matthew Campbell, Sunday Times foreign features editor.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Clips used from Global News, Fox News and the BBC.
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