The Weekend Intelligence

Episodes

• The Weekend Intelligence: The last hospital in el-Fasher 2026-10-31
  When el-Fasher, Sudan, came under siege by the RSF, Saudi Hospital became the region’s last functioning hospital. There, a team of extraordinary…
• The Weekend Intelligence: The trials of Binyamin Netanyahu 2026-10-24
  Israel’s prime minister faces a corruption trial at home and an arrest warrant for war crimes in The Hague. But the real trial that will determine…
• The Weekend Intelligence: The town that Disney built 2026-10-17
  Can a nostalgic throwback also be a bold urban planning experiment? The Disney Corporation thought so. In 1996 they built the town of Celebration,…
• The Weekend Intelligence: And Tango Makes Three 2026-10-10
  This is the story of one of the most challenged books in America, and the feathered-freedom fighters caught up in America’s culture wars. *This…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Memory lane 2026-10-03
  Now every fact is a click away, the role of memory has changed. On The Weekend Intelligence , Rosie Blau profiles an eight-times world memory…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Shire folk - Episode 3: The prophet 2026-09-26
  In our third and final episode of Shire folk, our series on the rise of Tommy Robinson, Georgia follows Tommy across the Atlantic to find out why so…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Shire folk - Episode 2: Rebel, Rebel 2026-09-19
  In our second episode of “Shire folk; the Tommy Robinson story”, Georgia Banjo revisits the late 2010s to chart how Britain’s grooming gangs scandal…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Shire folk - Episode 1: Tommy's Town 2026-09-12
  For 15 years, the British media dismissed Tommy Robinson as a far-right extremist. We kept him off our televisions, and out of our newspapers. …
• The Weekend Intelligence: Radio Kudirat 2026-09-05
  In the 1990s, as Nigeria was under a brutal military dictatorship, Radio Kudirat emerged as a glimmer of hope. The clandestine project united…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Laugh, think, move 2026-08-29
  FOR 35 years the Ig Nobel prizes—given for “research that makes people laugh, then think”—have been awarded at a madcap ceremony in Cambridge,…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Grave friends 2026-08-22
  Around 30% of Japan’s population is now over 65 and record numbers of people are dying. The weight of those deaths is falling on fewer shoulders, as…
• The Weekend Intelligence: TikTok humanitarianism 2026-08-15
  As aid systems come under growing strain, a new form of giving is emerging online. Catherine Brahic follows two people in Gaza who have come to rely…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Attention, please! 2026-08-08
  What do medieval monks, Brazilian leftists and New York academics have in common? They all want to know where our attention has gone. How can we…
• The Weekend Intelligence: The war on animal research 2026-08-01
  PETA and other left-leaning groups have tried for decades to end research on animals. They mostly failed. Then a Republican strategist found a far…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Sleepless in Havana 2026-07-25
  All across the island of Cuba time has slowed down. With little access to fuel there is nowhere to go. With little access to power there is nothing…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Better than a real boyfriend? 2026-07-18
  Imagine a boyfriend who is completely attuned to your needs. He cooks you dinner, nightly. He prepares a hot water bottle when you are on your…
• The Weekend Intelligence: The new homeschoolers 2026-07-11
  Homeschooling is surging far beyond its roots in conservative Christian America. Across the US and around the world, more families are opting out of…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Fear and doping in Las Vegas 2026-07-04
  It’s a simple idea on the surface; host a rival to the olympics in which people can take performance enhancing drugs. But as The Economist’s Natasha…
• The Weekend Intelligence: How to Retire at 30 2026-06-06
  Do you worry about a future where your job is replaced by AI? Are you a high earner but never seem to have any money? Would you like to work less…
• The Weekend Intelligence: The spy who lived downstairs 2026-05-30
  After years of conflict reporting and manic episodes, journalist Ayman Oghanna was aiming for a quiet life—one that looks boring from the outside.…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Meet the “Jailscraper” 2026-05-23
  Jails on New York City’s Riker’s Island have been in crisis for decades. Violent and unsafe, its remote location makes it hard for inmates to get to…
• The Weekend Intelligence: The Curious Case of the Missing Milk Supply 2026-05-16
  When health correspondent Slavea Chankova struggled to breastfeed her daughter, she went looking for the latest research on human lactation. What…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Don’t Panic! (But be prepared) 2026-05-09
  In February The Weekend Intelligence reported from Lithuania where civilian society is gearing up to defend itself from attacks across the border;…
• The Weekend Intelligence: 17 siblings and counting 2026-05-02
  Sperm and egg donation is increasingly common: nearly one in five births following IVF treatment in Britain involves a donor.  But what happens…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Georgia's swansong 2026-04-25
  The last two years have been turbulent ones in Georgia. After mass protests against the government began in November 2024, hundreds were detained…
• The Weekend Intelligence: Meet the passport bros 2026-04-18
  The passport bros share a simple message: dating in the West is broken — so go somewhere your money stretches further and your chances improve.…
• The Weekend Intelligence: In search of Lithium Valley 2026-04-11
  Reporter David Weinberg takes us to the desert of Southern California, where geologists have discovered half a trillion dollars worth of lithium…
• The Weekend Intelligence: A life less Earthly 2026-04-04
  Talking to space architects and scientists, real astronauts, and secret wannabes, Jessica Camille Aguirre set out to discover the blueprint for a…
• The Weekend Intelligence: The red-state psychedelic 2026-03-28
  Ibogaine, a potent psychedelic, is coming to red-state America. Tamara Gilkes Borr meets one of the movement’s most determined advocates, an…