Today in Focus
by The Guardian
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- 🇦🇺AU · Daily News#10300K to 1M
- 🇨🇦CA · Daily News#11300K to 1M
- 🇩🇪DE · Daily News#19300K to 1M
- 🇫🇷FR · Daily News#12100K to 300K
- 🇮🇳IN · Daily News#15100K to 300K
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Can Andy Burnham end rough sleeping?
Jul 28, 2026
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Race against time to contain wildfires in France and Spain – The Latest
Jul 27, 2026
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How Palantir got into the NHS
Jul 27, 2026
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Charli xcx: does new album hit as hard as Brat? – The Latest
Jul 24, 2026
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The ‘cockroaches’ marching on India’s government
Jul 24, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7/28/26 |  Can Andy Burnham end rough sleeping? | In the wake of the new PM’s bold pledge, Helen Pidd heads to a village for homeless people in Greater Manchester, where the former mayor first promised to take action. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus | — | ||||||
| 7/27/26 |  Race against time to contain wildfires in France and Spain – The Latest | Firefighters in France and Spain are facing another day battling wildfires that have resulted in hundreds of thousands of people being evacuated, with another heatwave expected to hit this week. French authorities have said this year’s wildfires, particularly the Gironde fire near the south-western city of Bordeaux, are ‘completely exceptional’. Lucy Hough speaks to Europe environment correspondent Ajit Niranjan – watch on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus | — | ||||||
| 7/27/26 |  How Palantir got into the NHS | The investigative journalist Lucas Amin reports on how the tech company Palantir won a £330m contract with the NHS … and what happened once its software was introduced. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus | — | ||||||
| 7/24/26 |  Charli xcx: does new album hit as hard as Brat? – The Latest | After a decade in the pop fringes, Charli xcx was propelled to global stardom by her 2024 album Brat. Then came an acid-green ‘brat summer’, a Glastonbury headline slot and ‘brat’ as Collins’s word of the year. But how do you follow up the album that made you a star? Charli’s latest album – Music, Fashion, Film – has now been released. And, as Guardian deputy music editor Laura Snapes tells Lucy Hough, it’s a pivot to guitar and a ‘meta masterpiece about the instability of identity’. Watch on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus | — | ||||||
| 7/24/26 |  The ‘cockroaches’ marching on India’s government | South Asia correspondent Hannah Ellis-Petersen on the Cockroach movement – and the students driving India’s biggest protests in years. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus | — | ||||||
| 7/23/26 |  Gary Lineker joins calls for wealth tax - The Latest | Millionaires including former footballer Gary Lineker are asking Andy Burnham to tax their wealth more. More than 100 wealthy Brits have signed an open letter to the prime minister, saying: ‘We want you to tax us. We can afford it.’ So should the government introduce a wealth tax? And why is the idea getting more popular? Nosheen Iqbal speaks to columnist and senior economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty – watch on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus | — | ||||||
| 7/23/26 |  What does the BBC do for you? | Media critic Mark Lawson discusses with Nosheen Iqbal why even the BBC director general has lost faith in the current licence fee model, and explore what options the national broadcaster has to secure funding. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus | — | ||||||
| 7/22/26 |  Zelenskyy ousts Ukraine army chief after protests - The Latest | Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fired his commander-in-chief, Oleksandr Syrskyi, in Ukraine’s biggest military shake-up in two years. Nationwide protests broke out after Zelenskyy sacked Mykhailo Fedorov as defence minister, who the Ukraine president says will now be brought back into government in a ‘prominent position’. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s senior international correspondent Luke Harding – watch on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus | — | ||||||
| 7/22/26 | swimmingchildren+3 | Amjed Tantesh | The Guardian | Gaza | swimming poolsGaza+3 | — | 33m 41s | ||
| 7/21/26 | US militaryIran conflict+3 | Julian Borger | The Pentagon | IranPakistan | US troopsIran war+5 | — | 10m 54s | ||
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| 7/21/26 | politicsAndy Burnham+3 | Peter WalkerPaul Harrison | The Guardian | — | Andy BurnhamPrime Minister+4 | — | 29m 32s | ||
| 7/20/26 | politicsUK government+4 | Alexandra Topping | The Guardian | — | Andy BurnhamKeir Starmer+4 | — | 9m 26s | ||
| 7/20/26 | asylum seekersprotests+3 | — | Bell hotelThe Guardian | EppingEssex | Eppingasylum seekers+3 | — | 28m 03s | ||
| 7/17/26 | film adaptationHomer's Odyssey+3 | Catherine Shoard | Christopher NolanThe Guardian+1 | — | Christopher NolanHomer's Odyssey+3 | — | 14m 25s | ||
| 7/17/26 | heatwavehome cooling+3 | Tom Greenhill | The Guardian | — | heatwavecooling tips+3 | — | 25m 13s | ||
| 7/16/26 | World Cupfootball+4 | Jonathan Liew | EnglandArgentina+1 | — | World CupEngland+5 | — | 12m 57s | ||
| 7/16/26 | politicsleadership+3 | — | The Guardian | — | Andy Burnhamprime minister+3 | — | 37m 02s | ||
| 7/15/26 | social mediateenagers+3 | Jessica Murray | The Guardian | UK | social media curfewteenagers+3 | — | 11m 53s | ||
| 7/15/26 |  The lawyer who took on Meta – and won | When Mark Lanier and his young client Kaley faced Meta and Google in an LA courtroom earlier this year, it seemed a bigger battle than David v Goliath. Lanier, however, was determined to prove the companies had not just stumbled into a youth mental health crisis, but had helped to engineer it. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus | — | ||||||
| 7/14/26 |  Trump forced to refund billions in tariffs – The Latest | The US government has been forced to pay billions in refunds to companies that were hit by Donald Trump’s ‘liberation day’ tariffs. The US has paid out $81bn (£61bn) this fiscal year after the supreme court ruled the tariffs were illegal. Lucy Hough speaks to international editor Chris Michael – watch on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus | — | ||||||
| 7/14/26 |  What’s happened to sperm? | Sperm counts are in decline worldwide, and testosterone levels are said to be plunging, but male infertility still carries a stigma. Prof Michael Carroll on what every man should know. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus | — | ||||||
| 7/13/26 |  Ann Widdecombe murder investigation taken over by counter-terror police – The Latest | Counter-terrorism police are now leading the investigation into the death of the former MP and Reform UK spokesperson Ann Widdecombe, in light of ‘new information and evidence’. A 28-year old white British man from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, was arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday. Lucy Hough speaks to the Guardian’s head of national news, Archie Bland – watch on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus | — | ||||||
| 7/13/26 |  China’s massive AI rollout | Senior China correspondent Amy Hawkins on China’s embrace of AI, from medical avatars to food delivery drones and state surveillance. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus | — | ||||||
| 7/10/26 |  How Trump’s intervention tarnished the World Cup – The Latest | There is just one week to go until the winner of the World Cup is crowned, and it has been a memorable tournament, not least due to the extraordinary intervention by Donald Trump this week that shocked the football world. Lucy Hough speaks to global sports business correspondent Matt Hughes – watch on YouTube. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus | — | ||||||
| 7/10/26 |  The missing scientists at the centre of a UFO conspiracy | Are the disappearances or deaths of 11 US scientists really linked in a nefarious plot? Or just a conspiracy theory with roots in a bizarre broadcast that rocked Britain in the 1970s?. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus | — | ||||||
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Chart history for Today in Focus
Peaked at #3 in Ireland, top 10 in 19 of 50 tracked markets, currently #3 in Ireland.
| Market | Genre | Peak | Current | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | — | #3 | #3 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #3 | #3 | — |
| IS | — | #3 | #3 | — |
| Finland | — | #4 | #4 | — |
| GR | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| South Africa | — | #5 | #5 | — |
| Denmark | — | #6 | #6 | — |
| AE | — | #6 | #6 | — |
| TH | — | #6 | #6 | — |
| Finland | — | #8 | #8 | — |
| SG | — | #8 | #8 | — |
| New Zealand | — | #9 | #9 | — |
| BE | — | #9 | #9 | — |
| NG | — | #9 | #9 | — |
| Australia | — | #10 | #10 | — |
| Ireland | — | #10 | #10 | — |
| AT | — | #10 | #10 | — |
| CZ | — | #10 | #10 | — |
| KE | — | #10 | #10 | — |
| Canada | — | #11 | #11 | — |
Chart Positions
50 placements across 36 markets.
Chart Positions
50 placements across 36 markets.