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Ozzie Osborne, who died this week, was the Black Sabbath front-man who became an unlikely TV personality. The 'Prince of Darkness' leaves behind a legacy that's shaped heavy metal rock music and inspired a generation of fans and musicians. We look at the legend, the music, the stories and the extraordinary resurrection of a career when all seemed lost.

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With starvation spreading across Gaza, over a thousand Palestinians have been killed while trying to get aid, according to the UN. As negotiations over another ceasefire founder, will there be anything - or anyone - left to save?

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Guest: Catherine Philp, World Affairs Editor, The Ti...

With Britain’s resident doctors due to walk off the job tomorrow, the government is planning changes to the law that could make this kind of strike more common.

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Guest: Eleanor Hayward, Health Editor, The Times.

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Hannah Varrall.

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With President Trump due to touch down on British soil this week, he seems unable to escape the shadow of Jeffrey Epstein. So why is Trump finding this story so hard to shake?

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Guest: Katy Balls, Washington Editor and Columnist, The Times and The Sunday Times.

Host: Luke Jones. 

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After last week’s shocking revelations that a list of tens of thousands of Afghans who’d helped the British was leaked, has that already led to deaths - and what happens now?

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Guest: Tom Witherow, News Reporter, The Times. 

Host: Manveen Rana.

Producer: Olivia Case.

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An investigation by The Sunday Times has found that hundreds of parents are being falsely accused of fabricating their child’s illness, facing allegations of abuse when they seek medical or social care. Elly Chapple told our reporter what happened to her family.

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The city-state of Singapore has been scandalised by a bitter row tearing apart its first family. The two sons of the country’s founder, Lee Kwan Yew, are fighting over the future of a small 19th-century bungalow - their childhood home. The is battle being fought in the law courts, debated in parliament and picked apart in the media - and one brother has fled to London seeking political asylum. With Singapore itself delicately balan...

Born into an aristocratic family, Constance Marten and her unlikely partner Mark Gordon's became the target of a police manhunt launched to find them and their missing baby in January 2023. Their full story can now be told after the couple's criminal trial came to an end this week. Why did her life of privilege descend into such chaos?

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Students are getting AI to write their essays and it’s hard to spot the difference. Professor Niall Ferguson says AI is bad for our brains, but he has a plan to save education.

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Guest: Professor Niall Ferguson, Times Columnist.

Host:  Luke Jones.

Producer: Shabnam Grewal.

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Sandie Peggie vs NHS Fife, the employment tribunal that gripped the nation last February, resumed this week. It all started after nurse Sandie Peggie objected to sharing a changing room with Dr Beth Upton, who is transgender.

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Guest: Daniel Sanderson, Scottish Political Editor, The Time...

For years, the British government used a court superinjunction to conceal a data leak that could have handed the Taliban a “kill list” of innocent civilians. Times defence editor Larisa Brown describes her fight to uncover the truth.

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Guest: Larisa Brown, Defence Editor, The Times.

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The self-styled "cheeky greengrocer" and MasterChef host has been sacked by the BBC after an inquiry substantiated dozens of complaints. So how did we get here and why is the BBC in this position again?

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Guest: Alex Farber, Media Correspondent, The Times. 

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New figures show the beauty industry is growing four times faster than the wider economy. The fastest growth is in beauty services and non-invasive treatments. These ‘injectables’ that freeze or fill your face are becoming more and more mainstream in the UK, even among women in their early 20s. Meanwhile, more celebrities than ever are admitting to going under the knife (or needle) and breaking the long-held taboo. How did we get h...

When Kristie De Garis moved two male companions into her house in rural Scotland, her neighbours assumed they were a throuple. The truth was even more unusual: she was setting up home with her exes.

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This week the political masterminds consider what's happening on the populist left and right, with more Tories defecting to Reform UK and talk of a new party led by Jeremy Corbyn. How small has the Conservative coalition become, do the voters expect Keir Starmer to wield a 'magic wand', and what would a new party be called?

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This week, the FBI investigation that Trump promised would reveal all about Jeffrey Epstein concluded there was no evidence to implicate anyone else in his abuse. But diaries from Epstein’s most prominent victim, Virginia Giuffre, released exclusively to The Times, tell a different story.

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With people around the world calling for a lasting peace in Gaza, Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu has been schmoozing US President Donald Trump. What chance is there that the two will bring an end to the bloody conflict? And what hope that any peace will hold?

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Guest: Gabrielle W...

Over 100 people, including dozens of children, are dead after flash flooding in Texas. Could this have been avoided given a nearly identical tragedy took place in 1987? Did Trump’s cuts contribute? And what went wrong with the flood warning system?

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Guest: Lara Spirit, Washington Corresp...

Erin Patterson has been found guilty of murdering three relatives by lacing their beef wellington with death cap mushrooms. She was also found guilty of attempting to murder a fourth person. The prosecution said she did it on purpose; she says it was an accident. It took a jury in Australia six days to reach a verdict after listening to 40 days of extraordinary evidence. 

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