Today in Focus
Hosted by Lucy Hough · The Guardian
4.7from 7,893 ratings
- 1,374
- Episodes
- 1,077
- Transcribed
- 7,893
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
- 788M
- YouTube views
About Today in Focus
Today in Focus brings you closer to the Guardian's journalism. Our award-winning morning edition hosted by Nosheen Iqbal, Annie Kelly and Helen Pidd combines on-the-ground reporting, insightful analysis and personal testimony from the people at the heart of the stories that matter, to give you a deeper understanding of the world we live in. And to make sense of a rapidly-changing news cycle, our new evening edition 'The Latest' hosted by Lucy Hough, brings you up to speed on the big news story of the day in just 10 minutes. Available on YouTube and all podcast platforms.
- Publisher
- The Guardian
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 2 Nov 2022
- Latest episode
- 6 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
1,077 of 1,374 episodes have a transcript.
6 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Could the AI bubble burst after Democrats’ midterms sweep? – The Latest
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Could the AI bubble burst after Democrats’ midterms sweep? – The Latest
Published 6 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it was a really brutal sell off yesterday. So what does the midterms have to do with AI stocks? I mean, we know that the big sort of tech bros in charge of The companies that you were listing there, as well as figures like Sam Altman and Elon Musk, have been kind of courting the Trump administration. […]
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- Natricia Duncan
- Molly Ball
- Ankita Rao
- Kalyeena Makortoff
- Jean H Lee
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- YouTube views
- 787,593,714
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 809 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 7,084 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 86 / 100
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- Quality
- 96
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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Lucy Hough host the show. Published by The Guardian.
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The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
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