Stories of our times is becoming The Story
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 3 minutes
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From Tuesday 19th March, Stories of our times will become The Story.
Manveen Rana and Luke Jones will be joined on the podcast by Times columnist and former foreign secretary William Hague, who once a month will sit down with a prominent newsmaker or thinker, with his first episode available later in March.
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| 0:00.0 | Stories of our times is changing. |
| 0:03.0 | This is a pivotal year. |
| 0:09.0 | Half the planet is going to the polls in some of the most consequential elections in living memory. |
| 0:16.0 | There are major conflicts in the Middle East and Europe, and AI could change everything. |
| 0:23.0 | So the podcast is getting a new lick of paint and we're expanding what we do. |
| 0:28.0 | From the 19th of March we'll have a new name, The Story, if you see the story in your feed that's us. We'll still be |
| 0:35.4 | telling one remarkable story in depth each day with a gender setting journalism from |
| 0:40.7 | times and Sunday Times correspondence. |
| 0:43.0 | Within the first couple of sentences spoken by Barista, the words |
| 0:47.5 | GRU agent were mentioned and I started scribbling in shorthand and I don't think I really stopped. |
| 0:54.0 | It was a genuine surprise, the Marmalade Dropper as we would call it. |
| 0:57.7 | That's where we are today, right in the Haas Westminster. |
| 1:00.3 | Exclusives, deep dives, and history in the making. |
| 1:05.0 | I do think this is probably the worst time to be arrested in Russia as a British journalist |
| 1:10.0 | by at least the last three decades. |
| 1:12.0 | They just grabbed him and threw me into the police truck. |
| 1:15.0 | I was sitting in a calf near the old bailey. |
| 1:19.0 | Somebody walked past, dropped an envelope in front of me and walked on you just go oh my God I lost my friend my lifelong friend and they had two kids I feel afraid all the time. |
| 1:34.0 | And I'll be bringing you more original investigations that you won't hear anywhere else |
| 1:39.0 | and reporting from around the world. |
| 1:42.0 | I'm in Paris Square in Jerusalem where thousands of people have marched for four days. |
| 1:51.0 | Plus once a month we have a special episode hosted by Times columnist and former |
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