The Global Story Podcast
With new hosts in Washington DC and London, The Global Story will tell the intertwined story of America and the world. Starting in September 2025.
The world order is shifting by the day 鈥� old alliances are fraying, autocrats are on the rise, and global trade is in turmoil. A lot of this turbulence can be traced back to decisions made in the US, but America isn鈥檛 just a cause of upheaval abroad鈥攊t鈥檚 also a symptom of the same forces disrupting things across the world.
That鈥檚 where The Global Story comes in. From September 2025, this daily podcast from the 成人快手 tackles the news at this exact intersection: where the world meets America.
With one host in DC, one host in London, and the backing of the best international newsroom in the world, this podcast tells the intertwined story of America and the world 鈥� how each shapes the other, daily.
The Global Story. Where the world meets America.
Episodes to download
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How Man City鈥檚 business model is transforming football
Mon 4 Mar 2024
City Football Group鈥檚 global empire is setting a trend of buying multiple clubs
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Why everyone wants to get back to the Moon
Thu 29 Feb 2024
The new space race has begun - who's winning?
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Are you ever too old to have a baby?
Tue 27 Feb 2024
Women are having children later in life and global fertility is in decline
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Child soldiers & blood feuds: Sweden's growing gang wars
Mon 26 Feb 2024
The violent wave of crime shaking the Nordic country
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Bengal famine: The WWII tragedy the world forgot
Fri 23 Feb 2024
Three million people died in this disaster but it is rarely remembered
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Ukraine frontline: ordinary lives in extraordinary times
Thu 22 Feb 2024
Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine enters its third year
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Is #MeToo finally exploding in French cinema?
Wed 21 Feb 2024
High-profile allegations are reigniting media debate in France
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'Category 6': the growing fury of hurricanes
Tue 20 Feb 2024
Scientists clash on how to classify record tropical cyclones
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How Denmark became a super producer of viral 'skinny jabs'
Mon 19 Feb 2024
Weight-loss drugs Ozempic & Wegovy reaping windfall profits for Danish manufacturer
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Alexei Navalny: The death of Putin鈥檚 biggest critic
Fri 16 Feb 2024
What the reported death of the jailed opposition leader means for Russia
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Andrew Tate effect: Is misogyny on the rise?
Fri 16 Feb 2024
A generation of young men are being targeted by sexist influencers
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Does Argentina have the patience for Milei鈥檚 shock therapy?
Thu 15 Feb 2024
After two months in power, President Milei鈥檚 economic experiment is being put to the test
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Ethiopia on the brink: Fears of a famine return and why you should pay attention
Wed 14 Feb 2024
After years of hope and promise, warnings of famine in the cradle of humanity
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Tucker Carlson: What next for America鈥檚 right-wing showman?
Tue 13 Feb 2024
Access to Putin and Trump puts him in a powerful position
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Global anxiety: You are not alone
Mon 12 Feb 2024
What鈥檚 it like to have the world鈥檚 most common mental health condition?
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Could Taylor Swift swing the US election?
Fri 9 Feb 2024
Allies of Donald Trump are worried she will push voters to back Joe Biden
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Europe鈥檚 furious farmers and the far right
Thu 8 Feb 2024
Why leaders in Paris, Berlin, Brussels and beyond fear protesting farmers
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''People will keep dying": The spread of fentanyl across the US Mexico border
Wed 7 Feb 2024
The Mexican border town battling fentanyl with scarce antidotes and mounting deaths
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Rare earths: the minerals that could save the world?
Tue 6 Feb 2024
The new geopolitical battleground over seventeen critical elements
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Our memories, their data - the Facebook story 20 years on
Mon 5 Feb 2024
How has the social network shaped our lives and our future?
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I survived the Las Vegas shooting, then was convinced it was staged
Fri 2 Feb 2024
成人快手 disinformation correspondent asks whether any of us are safe from conspiracy theories
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BYD: The Chinese carmaker challenging Tesla鈥檚 dominance
Thu 1 Feb 2024
Elon Musk says Chinese electric vehicles could 鈥榙emolish鈥� competition
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Families of Israeli Hostages: 鈥淲hatever it takes to get them back鈥�
Wed 31 Jan 2024
The politics of growing anger from desperate relatives
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What鈥檚 the plan, Iran?
Tue 30 Jan 2024
Tehran鈥檚 Middle East strategy after a lethal attack on US troops
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Should Germany ban the popular far-right AfD party?
Mon 29 Jan 2024
There is a debate over whether to ban the country's second most popular political party
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Black market baby trafficking in Georgia
Fri 26 Jan 2024
Thousands of children were stolen from their parents at birth and sold
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鈥楽end back our husbands鈥� 鈥� Russian women taking the fight to Putin
Thu 25 Jan 2024
成人快手 Russia editor Steve Rosenberg talks to Katya about the military wives he's spoken to
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Meet Trump鈥檚 new inner circle
Wed 24 Jan 2024
How Donald Trump's team has changed from his 2016 presidential campaign to the 2024 bid
