Guardian Focus podcast show

Guardian Focus podcast

Summary: Each week, Guardian correspondents and commentators take a detailed look at an issue in the news

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Podcasts:

 Guardian Focus podcast: Wimbledon and the state of British tennis | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:38:13

We give millions to the Lawn Tennis Association every year to get more people playing and to improve elite performance. Hugh Muir asks if it's working

 Guardian Focus Podcast: How will the changes to budget affect the NHS? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:01:00

Hugh Muir talks to health experts to find out how the changes to the way the NHS is financed will affect its service and where the necessary savings can be made

 Global development podcast: are we on the brink of a new global food crisis? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:36:14

The World Bank says soaring food prices have already pushed millions more people into extreme poverty this year. We examine what is being done to combat the problem

 Guardian Focus podcast: Are we on the brink of a new global food crisis? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:36:14

The World Bank says soaring food prices have already pushed millions more people into extreme poverty this year. We examine what is being done to combat the problem

 Guardian Focus podcast: Scottish sectarianism | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:31:08

Hugh Muir explores the reasons for the apparent upsurge in religious hatred in Scotland. How much deeper than the football matches between Celtic and Rangers does this go?

 Guardian Focus podcast: SlutWalk marches | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:40:55

Thousands of women in Canada and the US have already marched in a movement provocatively called SlutWalk. But are they advancing feminism or harming it? An expert panel assembled by the Observer debates the issue before a series of marches in the UK

 Guardian Focus podcast: The coalition's impact on grassroots politics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:29:39

On the first anniversary of the coalition government, Hugh Muir and Martin Wainwright visit David Cameron and Nick Clegg's constituencies of Witney and Sheffield

 Guardian Focus podcast: Are the Olympics creating enough jobs for east Londoners? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:36:09

Hugh Muir asks whether the target of getting 70,000 unemployed Londoners into work through London 2012 is being achieved

 Global development podcast: what role can tourism play in development? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:35:49

The World Tourism Organisation argues that responsible tourism can play a significant role in eradicating poverty and meeting the millennium development goals. But is it right?

 Guardian Focus podcast: What role can tourism play in development? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:35:49

The World Tourism Organisation argues that responsible tourism can play a significant role in eradicating poverty and meeting the millennium development goals. But is it right?

 Guardian Focus podcast: The nuclear debate after Fukushima and Chernobyl | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:41:09

George Monbiot, Helen Caldicott and Laurence Williams join host James Randerson to debate the future of the UK's nuclear programme following Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant disaster

 Guardian Focus podcast: Afghanistan | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 01:31:32

Jon Snow chairs a Guardian debate at the British Museum in London under the title Afghanistan: What makes a Nation?

 Guardian Focus podcast: The AV referendum | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:31:54

Michael White talks to MPs, voters, campaigners and experts prior to the referendum on the alternative vote system on 5 May

 Guardian Focus Podcast: Why is the Olympic sporting legacy off track? | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:33:19

London won the 2012 Olympics with a promise to turn the UK into a sporting nation the world would envy. So why aren't more people taking up sport?

 Guardian Focus podcast: What Poland did right | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:29:36

Concluding the Guardian's New Europe series, Chris Bobinski, Andrzej Swidlicki and Matteo Napolitano join Jon Henley to discuss how Poland sailed through the economic crash

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