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Ease into the weekend with our brand new podcast, showcasing some of the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week, read by talented narrators. In this episode, Marina Hyde looks at the new additions to Downing Street (2m00s), Hadley Freeman interviews Hollywood actor Will Arnett (9m56s), Sirin Kale tries her hand at quiz show Mastermind (26m32s), and David Robson examines why we’re so stressed about stress (41m08s). If you like what you hear, subscribe to Weekend on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.

Ease into the weekend with our brand new podcast, showcasing some of the best Guardian and Observer writing from the week, read by talented narrators. In our first episode, Marina Hyde reflects on another less than stellar week for Boris Johnson (1m38s), Edward Helmore charts the rise of Joe Rogan (9m46s), Laura Snapes goes deep with singer George Ezra (18m30s), and Alex Moshakis asks, “Are you a jerk at work?” (34m40s). If you like what you hear, subscribe to Weekend on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts

Have you ever wondered what famous people actually eat? In our new podcast, Guardian restaurant critic Grace Dent does just that, asking well-known guests to lift the lid on the food they turn to when they’re at home alone – and what comfort foods have seen them through their lives. In the first episode, screenwriter Russell T Davies tells Grace about his childhood in Swansea, the delights of Woolworth’s pork and egg pies, and how his husband’s death informed his latest TV series, It’s a Sin. Future guests will include Nish Kumar, Rafe Spall and Aisling Bea. Episodes willl be released every Tuesday – search for it wherever you get your podcasts

The Guardian has launched a new series called Reverberate that we think you’ll like. Each week, Chris Michael will explore incredible stories from around the world about when music shook history. In the first episode, we hear from Kashy Keegan, an unknown singer-songwriter in a sleepy English town who became the voice of Hong Kong’s nascent pro-democracy movement. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to hear the rest of the series

We wanted to bring you another episode from our Innermost series. In the last episode of our first season, two callers tell Leah Green how their relationships sent them down unexpected paths, one with criminal consequences Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to hear the rest of the series

The Guardian has launched a new series called Innermost that we think you will like. Each week, callers will tell Leah Green what’s going on behind closed doors. In the first episode, we hear how an uncle’s funeral and meals with an emotionally distant brother help James and Jess think about their families in new and unexpected ways. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts to hear the rest of the series

This episode of our podcast series examines the environmental impact of our shopping habits and the seemingly unstoppable rise of ‘fast fashion’

Guardian journalists, supporters and industry experts discuss what education systems around the world can learn from each other and how to enable change

Guardian journalists, supporters and industry experts discuss the failing health of UK high streets and the impact on communities. What can local spaces offer that out-of-town shopping centres and online giants can’t?

George Monbiot and wildlife experts discuss the increasingly devastating impacts of human behaviour on fauna and flora, and what can be done to protect species, locally and globally

In this monthly podcast, Guardian supporters share their experiences and put questions to a panel of journalists and industry experts. This episode focuses on the rise of artificial intelligence in business and wider society. How will this evolving technology affect our lives, and how might the threats be ameliorated?

This episode of our regular podcast focuses on the impact of the modern news cycle on our health and wellbeing, and whether a greater focus on positive, hopeful, solution-based stories could help to mitigate this

In this monthly podcast, Guardian supporters share their experiences and put questions to a panel of journalists and industry experts. This episode focuses on veganism’s evolution into a mainstream lifestyle choice. What does it mean to become a vegan and what impact could veganism have on climate change, animal welfare and personal wellbeing?

Guardian supporters pose the questions as The Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, discusses the challenges facing journalism and her vision for the Guardian. Hosted by The Guardian’s joint political editor, Heather Stewart

Guardian supporters set the agenda and feature in this podcast considering whether society is becoming more polarised – and if so, how we might tackle the issue. With Jon Henley, Dawn Foster, Elle Hunt and Joseph Harker.

In this monthly podcast, Guardian supporters ask the questions and a Guardian panel try to provide the answers. This episode focuses on whether people should be having fewer children for the sake of the planet – and if so, how that societal change might happen

A monthly podcast in which Guardian journalists tackle a topic suggested by Guardian members and answer their questions on it. In this edition, Vicky Frost, the Guardian’s deputy membership editor, discusses Brexit with Lisa O’Carroll, Zoe Williams, Dan Roberts and Larry Elliott

A monthly podcast in which Guardian journalists tackle a topic suggested by Guardian members and answer their questions on it. In this edition, Vicky Frost, the Guardian’s deputy membership editor, discusses the global rise of nationalism with Randeep Ramesh, Iman Amrani and Ewen MacAskill

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Is it reasonable to expect the state to provide universal healthcare? Vicky Frost and a panel including the Guardian’s Sarah Boseley and Denis Campbell answer Guardian members’ questions about the challenges facing public healthcare

From protests against President Trump and Brexit, to Romanian anti-corruption demonstrations and the people defending threats to local libraries – we appear to be living in a new age of resistance. But how can we maintain momentum? And what can we really achieve? In this edition of our podcast for Guardian Members we discuss the power and danger of protest

The Pulitzer prize-winning novelist looks back on a modern classic at a Guardian book club event

What will a Trump presidency mean for the future of the planet? In the first of our new monthly podcasts for Guardian members, in which expert panelists and journalists tackle your queries on the subjects you consider most pressing, we consider climate change policy in the Trump era. What should we expect – and what can we do about it?

It is an election result that has left the US and the rest of the world reeling, that saw a man with no record in any political office, a reality TV star who has boasted about sexually assaulting women, become the 45th US president. The Guardian’s special projects editor Mark Rice-Oxley and a panel of columnists discuss the reasons for Trump’s success and the Democrats’ failure

By turning away from death, by ignoring its inevitability, are we making our death more distressing for ourselves and for our loved ones? Giles Fraser and an expert panel shed some light on the positive things that can happen when we face this entirely natural part of life

The Guardian’s political editor Anushka Asthana alongside Paul Mason, Rafael Behr, Hugh Muir, Polly Toynbee and John Harris reflect on the tumultuous battle for the heart of the Labour party and ask whether Labour regain power?

From the Labour conference in Liverpool, Ed Balls talks to the Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland about his memoir, his views on Labour’s survival and whether he’ll return to politics after Strictly Come Dancing

On an average day in America, seven children and teens will be shot dead. At a Guardian Members’ event Gary Younge discusses his 18-month investigation into the lives lost during a single day – 23 November 2013

Nick Clegg, former deputy prime minister, joins the Observer’s Andrew Rawnsley to discuss his time in government and the current turmoil in mainstream politics

The Lib Dem leader talks to the Guardian’s political editor about Brexit, his party’s future and potential alliances

John Harris, a cross-party panel and Guardian Members ask if the only way to defeat the Tories is to create a more representative, pluralist politics on the left

Dawn Foster asks a UTOPIA 2016/Guardian Live panel what makes us happy and whether happiness is now a marker for success that causes anxiety

‘The godfather of alternative comedy’ takes a walk down memory lane with the Guardian’s Andy Beckett to understand the impact of a tumultuous decade

Orange Prize winner Rose Tremain gives an account of writing her latest book, The Gustav Sonata

At a Guardian Live event, games editor Keith Stuart asks a panel of designers and programmers what the advances in artificial intelligence mean for games and the people who play them?

Following the publication of the Chilcot report, the Guardian’s deputy editor, Paul Johnson, asks a Guardian Live panel how the invasion, occupation and reconstruction of Iraq were mishandled and looks at the wider consequences

Award-winning investigative journalists from Süddeutsche Zeitung Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer reveal the inside story behind the biggest leak in history

At the end of a turbulent week, Mark Rice-Oxley and a panel of writers, philosophers and anthropologists take a step back to make their predictions for what our world will look like 10 years from now

Jonathan Freedland chairs a discussion of what happens after the vote to leave the EU, the biggest political shock for decades

As a result of the Syrian conflict, more than half of the country’s population has been displaced. At a Guardian Live event, Middle East correspondent Martin Chulov chairs an expert panel discussing the causes of the refugee crisis and how we can tackle it

As the final week of campaigning heats up, the Guardian’s political editor Anushka Asthana and her cross-party panel offer passion and clarity as they ask whether the UK should remain part of the EU

Three of the people standing for UN secretary general present their vision for ‘the world’s most impossible job’

An expert panel debates whether there should be limits to what we say and write, and if so, who should decide what is acceptable or not?

Guardian writers Polly Toynbee, Larry Elliott, Natalie Nougayrède and Rafael Behr analyse the EU exit and remain campaigns

The American novelist Don DeLillo gives an account of writing his modern masterpiece Underworld to the Guardian book club

Dean Burnett and Robin Ince examine the wonderfully messy, disorganised and often illogical workings of the human brain

Zoe Williams chairs a discussion on how sexism has changed in the digital age, the failures of sex education and what can be done to improve equality

Europe is facing a wave of migration unmatched since the end of the second world war. At a Guardian Live event Patrick Kingsley, the Guardian’s migration correspondent, hosted a panel discussion to discuss the political challenges behind the escalating crisis

Does class still matter and how does it operate in today’s society? At a Guardian Live event, Owen Jones, Rachel Johnson and guests discuss the politics of class and the results of the largest survey of social class conducted in the UK

One of our best known living philosophers discusses immigration, the liberal left and Europe’s future, with columnist Gary Younge

A panel of Guardian reporters explores the fallout from the Panama Papers and tells the inside story behind the biggest leak in history

Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis and an expert panel discuss whether the EU has lost sight of its original purpose. Is it time to for the UK to leave?

Should the UK stay part of the European Union? With polls showing the vote split down the middle, the Guardian brought together key commentators on both sides of the argument to discuss the future of the UK in Europe

Chris Boardman joins an expert panel to ask why some people still feel cycling in the capital is too risky and what can be done to encourage more people to get on their bikes

In 2006 undercover MI6 spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned in central London. At a Guardian Live event his widow Marina talked to Luke Harding about fighting for the truth and the role of the Russian state

The Irish novelist gives an intimate account of how he wrote his most autobiographical novel, to the Guardian book club at a live event recorded in London

Are we failing to achieve a clear global consensus on how to tackle climate change? Former leader of the Labour party Ed Miliband, Guardian journalist George Monbiot and scientist Helen Czerski debate the implications of the historic Paris agreement

As the Trident debate rages on, Julian Borger talks to former secretary of defence for President Clinton, William J Perry, who has a unique, and chilling, vantage point on why nuclear weapons endanger our safety, rather than secure it

Nato has accused Russia of undermining stability in Europe while the prime minister Dmitry Medvedev has warned of a new cold war. At a Guardian Live event, an expert panel discussed Putin’s ambitions and Russia’s shifting relationships

At a Guardian Live Book Club event, the Norwegian literary phenomenon Karl Ove Knausgaard explains how and why he has put the most intimate details of his life into his autobiographical novels

Journalist Jordan Erica Webber hosts a panel to discuss taking games seriously, diversity, game-ifying love and new titles Firewatch and Fabulous Beasts. Contains strong language

Why do so many venues still find it hard to open doors to disabled artists and audiences? At a Guardian Live event in Wolverhampton, Lyn Gardner and a panel discuss the opportunities and obstacles

Sir Michael Marmot joins an expert panel to discusses the conclusions of his latest book, The Health Gap, on what the government should being doing to tackle the health inequality problem

The NHS is under pressure like never before with junior doctors united against the introduction of a new contract. At a Guardian Live event, the Guardian’s deputy editor Paul Johnson asked an expert panel how the NHS can continue to strive for and deliver quality care

At a Guardian Live event John Irving, one of America’s greatest living novelists, discusses his new book, Avenue of Mysteries, with author and professor of creative writing Jeanette Winterson

Denis Goldberg is one of the last surviving defendants in the Rivonia Trial. At a Guardian Live event he joined Lord Joel Joffe, one of the lawyers who saved the ANC activists from the gallows, to share his extraordinary story

As part our month-long investigation into the NHS, columnist Polly Toynbee chaired a Guardian Live panel debate in London to discuss the challenges of working in our most vital public service

To celebrate the publication of his autobiography The Outsider, Frederick Forsyth gives a rare public interview discussing his life as a bestselling novelist and Cold War spy

One of the finest classical actors of his generation, Sir Antony Sher joined the Guardian’s Mark Lawson to discuss his life in theatre at a Guardian Live event in London

Are businesses still in denial about climate change or has the mood changed following the Paris talks? At a Guardian Live event, an expert panel question whether 2016 will be the year companies help kickstart a global movement to reduce climate emissions

Why are the left and right still so obsessed with Thatcher? At the Guardian’s Alternative Party Conference, Anne Perkins chairs a panel debate to ask why the former Tory leader remains such an enigma

Singer Billy Bragg takes on Spectator editor Fraser Nelson to decide whether Scotland should remain part of the UK. This Guardian Live and Soho Theatre event contains strong language

As Bill Bryson returns to travel writing after 15 years with The Road to Little Dribbling, he joins John Mullan to discuss his voyages around the United Kingdom

With men still holding the majority of senior positions in parliament how do we get more women into the top jobs? At a Guardian Live event Zoe Williams asks what needs to happen to achieve gender equality in Westminster

At a Guardian Live event in Manchester, the multi-award winning crime writer, Ian Rankin, discussed his sabbatical from writing and bringing much loved detective John Rebus out of retirement for his 20th novel, Even Dogs in the Wild

Feminism has more cultural power than ever – but what does this mean for women’s rights? At a Guardian Live debate chaired by broadcaster Jane Garvey, the panel discussed equality, responsibility and the meaning of the F word

Is the beautiful game in meltdown? At a Guardian Live event in London, Evan Davis chaired a panel of ex-players, writers and commentators to discuss money, diversity and corruption in football

To celebrate his autobiography But Enough About Me, veteran actor Burt Reynolds joins Hadley Freeman at a Guardian Live event to talk candidly about his career, Sinatra, Monroe and who would play him in the film of his life

Gangs, gay sex and pandering to the white woman. Man Booker prize winner Marlon James talks to Guardian books editor, Claire Armitstead, and answers audience questions at a Guardian Live event on A Brief History of Seven Killings

With the London average house price hitting £500,000 can anyone but the most wealthy afford to live in the city? At a Guardian Live event, Evan Davis chaired a discussion on private landlords, developers, architecture and responsibility

At a Guardian Live event in London, a panel of writers, historians and activists discuss the shocking deaths of US citizens by police officers. Did race play a role in the killings, and what can we do to stop them happening again?

With voters now being offered a clear choice between right and left, have we entered a new political age? At a Guardian Live/National Theatre event in London, economist and presenter Evan Davis chairs a lively discussion on the future of the political landscape

At a Guardian Live event in London, writer Kieran Yates chairs a panel discussing how DIY musicians can bring their talents to mass audiences. Contains strong language throughout

At a Guardian Live event, a panel of climate thinkers and writers discussed whether the pledges by world leaders gathering in Paris for COP21, would be enough to escape catastrophic climate change

Why did terrorists attack Paris and what now is the right course of action for Europe? At a Guardian Live event in London, an expert panel discussed the ramifications for France, Syria and the rest of the international community

At a Guardian Live event in London, David Hare, a titan of British political theatre for over four decades, talks to Jonathan Freedland about politics, writing and his career in theatre. The event marks the publication of Hare’s memoir, The Blue Touch Paper.

At a Guardian Live event in London, journalist and Guardian music critic Jude Rogers chaired a panel of broadcasters, singers, musicians and authors to discuss class, music and opportunity