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The Agatha Christie Murder Club: Who was Agatha?

At the first meeting of The Agatha Christie Murder Club we investigate the life of Agatha Christie to find out what led to a lifetime of writing detective fiction.

An illustration of an old bookshelf with the words The Agatha Christie Murder Club illustrated across the image.

Duration: 17 minutes 30 seconds

The lost shipwreck that started a navy

A warship born from panic. A cannon that was never fired. A shipwreck that's been lost for over a century. And one man determined to find it.

Light glimmers through kelp, which is depicted underwater, the the words No One Saw it Coming in the centre of the image.

Duration: 25 minutes 46 seconds

Israel in deadlock: Will the Arab parties decide who governs?

Israel has voted in one of the most consequential elections in its history, but the result has produced no clear winner.

Two women standing looking at the camera with the words Global Roaming at the forefront

Duration: 29 minutes 3 seconds

Have renters finally reached their limit?

Rental prices have stalled despite fears of a deepening squeeze. Have tenants officially hit their breaking point?

Duration: 29 minutes 34 seconds

Bondy: A castle built on sand

As decades of dirty deals and backroom manoeuvres begin to surface, Alan Bond isn’t just being chased for the billions he owes, criminal investigators are also on his tail and this time he has nowhere to run.

Alan Bond, a white man in his 50s who is wearing a suit and tie, is trying to make his way through a crowd of reporters.

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A Halloween sugar hit for retail sector amidst spooked outlook

Halloween might have provided some retailers with a temporary sugar hit to sales, but broader consumer sentiment has some in the sector spooked.

The inside of a shopping mall, with a long row shops and shoppers below a arched glass ceiling.

Duration: 6 minutes 5 seconds

Caribbean activists call for slavery apology

On the sidelines of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, protectors are demanding the UK confront role in transatlantic enslavement.

a close up of king charles, wrinkled and red face with a receding grey hairline

Duration: 4 minutes 27 seconds

Why are tensions high over Poland's Constitutional Tribunal?

A power struggle between the government and the courts has broken out.

Donald Tusk in a suit at a press conference.

Duration: 6 minutes 7 seconds

What work is doing to your brain

How is your grey matter doing? Are you digitally overloaded? Spinning out even thinking about another notification? Our brains weren't designed to operate in the modern workplace and it is showing.

A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) brain scan

Duration: 25 minutes 16 seconds

Houdini's Halloween Escape

On October 31st in New York, fans of Harry Houdini, the world famous - and long-deceased - showman, gathered in his former home in preparation for a seance to try and contact him.

A man in a swimsuit and chains stands on the top of a bridge in a 1900s photograph

Duration: 12 minutes 35 seconds

How Matt Brown helps men break the cycle of domestic violence

When Taimalelagi Mataio Faafetai (Matt) Brown was working as a barber in Aotearoa New Zealand, he found that men felt comfortable opening up to him while he cut their hair.

A woman and man in black tshirts stand against a black background. His tshirt says She Is Not Your Rehab

Duration: 17 minutes 59 seconds

Extra Intrigue: political star returns to Venezuela and the staggering economics of Anthropic

In the November edition of Extra Intrigue Jeremy Dicker explains the significance of the return to Venezuela of María Corina Machado, the popular pro-democracy politician and Nobel Prize winner.

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Duration: 20 minutes 42 seconds

Serbia's new leaderless government

On November 1 2024, a collapse at the Novi Sad railway station killed 16 people. The building project was closely associated with the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) government and president Aleksandar Vučić.

Duration: 14 minutes 55 seconds

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