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Helen Pidd

Helen Pidd is a presenter of Today in Focus, the Guardian's award-winning daily podcast. She was the North of England editor from 2013-2024

June 2024

  • Aamna Mohdin

    Today in Focus
    From child refugee to Guardian reporter: one journalist’s extraordinary story

    How does it feel to report on the refugee crisis when it’s also the story of your own family? Aamna Mohdin explains
  • Faiza Shaheen holding flowers after speaking to supporters

    Today in Focus
    Has there been a purge of the left wing of the Labour party?

    Keir Starmer once promised to lead a ‘broad church’ Labour party. After a week in which Diane Abbott and Faiza Shaheen have complained about their treatment, does that still hold true? Aletha Adu and Aditya Chakrabortty report
  • A bald man in his sixties (Phil Daoust), wearing a T-shirt, shorts and trainers, sitting on the floor pulling on resistance bands around his feet

    Today in Focus
    How to live to 100

    We know more about extending our lifespans than ever before. After
    decades spent drinking, eating and laughing at people with exercise regimes, what will it take for Phil Daoust to join the ranks of centenarians?

May 2024

  • A student writes with a pink pen in an exercise book at a school desk in a classroom

    Today in Focus
    What should kids be taught about sex and relationships?

  • ‘Beyond misconceived’ … Saweetie with puppets in Sex: Unzipped.

    ‘I wanted to scrape it from my eyeballs’: critics on their zero-star savagings

  • Prime Minister Rishi Sunak making a statement outside 10 Downing Street, London

    Today in Focus
    Rishi Sunak’s big election gamble

  • Andy Evans posing against garden flowers

    ‘My mum had to tell me I had HIV’: the former blood transfusion poster boy campaigning for infected victims

  • Today in Focus
    The children of the contaminated blood scandal

  • Full Story
    Put it down! Should children be allowed smartphones? – Full Story podcast

  • Today in Focus
    Put it down! Should children be allowed smartphones?

  • Today in Focus
    Rishi Sunak staggers on – but for how long?

  • Today in Focus
    How do we protect teenagers from sextortion scams?

  • Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Labour’s Claire Ward elected first mayor of East Midlands as Sunak gets boost in Tees Valley after Tory losses – live

April 2024

  • A close up of a Labour rosette on a jacket

    Today in Focus
    Is Labour about to win a local elections landslide?

  • Molly Roden Winter

    Today in Focus
    Have open marriages gone mainstream?

  • Angela Rayner in a hard hat and hi-vis jacket at a construction site

    Today in Focus
    Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner?

  • Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo

    Today in Focus
    Sudan’s forgotten war

  • Today in Focus
    The chilling policy to cut Greenland’s high birth rate

  • Today in Focus
    Can Rishi Sunak create a smoke-free generation?

  • Today in Focus
    Liz Truss and her plan to ‘save the west’

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