The Story

Ben Kawaller suddenly has the urge to have children, but he would prefer not to raise them. Luckily, there is a growing online market that can help with that.

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Read by: Ben Kawaller, reporter and essayist.
Producer: Dave Creasey.
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Today, Andy Burnham will be crowned Labour leader. On Monday, he'll become Prime Minister -- Britain's fifth in as many years. But questions are still lingering over the direction he’ll take the government. And more than that, people are still trying to decipher who the man really is. We turn to our man in Westminster, who has spent plenty of time with Burnham, to try to get some answers.

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Guest: Patrick Maguire, chief political commentator, The Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Producers: Harry Stott.
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Read more: Andy Burnham wants to break ‘unaccountable state’
Further listening: Will Burnham scrap the most expensive promise in politics?
Clips: Andy Burnham / X, BBC, Coljax Parliament / Youtube, LBC, Nimrod Kamer / Youtube, Manchester Evening News, The Mirror.
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For the first time since the war began, a Times journalist has reported from inside Iran. World Affairs editor Catherine Philp travelled there for the week-long funeral of the former ayatollah, leaving just as US strikes resumed. Amid the latest escalation, how united is the country over the war? And what do the continuing hostilities mean for the daily lives of millions of people across Iran?

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Guest: Catherine Philp, world affairs editor, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producers: Sophie McNulty, Jesse Fox.
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Read more: US blockade begins in Strait while strikes on Iran enter fifth day
Further listening: What Iranians really think of Trump’s peace deal
Clips: C-Span, BBC, Fox News, The Times, DRM News.
Photo: Times Photographer Jack Hill.
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The England football team’s manager Thomas Tuchel has led his squad to a World Cup semi-final against old rivals Argentina. A cerebral football obsessive, he has a tendency to self-immolate when things are going well. So is this the fate that awaits the Tuchel-England experiment? Or could the tensions between the manager and his star player Jude Bellingham actually prove the key to victory?

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Guest: Mehreen Khan, economics editor, The Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Producers: Jesse Fox, Harry Stott.
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Read more: Thomas Tuchel’s tough love for England not without risk
Further listening: The men who made the World Cup - The Sunday Story
Clips: Football Smash / Youtube, Sky News, Talk Sport, Sports Unfiltered / Youtube, BBC.
Photo: Getty Images.
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It’s no secret that NHS mental health care is under strain - long waiting lists, disjointed communication between providers, and patients left in limbo. So how did it end up this way? And could a treatment model from Finland be the solution? The Sunday Times went to find out.

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Guest: Roisin Kelly, journalist and commissioning editor, The Sunday Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Producer: Micaela Arneson.
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Read more: What Lapland can teach the NHS about treating psychosis
Further listening: Britain’s mental health reckoning - part one
Clips: Channel 4, Nottingham Inquiry.
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