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Pollar Sounds is a podcast from the Pollar newsroom featuring original audio stories. Each episode presents reported narratives and audio journalism. Supporters of Pollar get early access to every episode. The show focuses on in-depth storytelling from the newsroom.

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Can French teenagers still bend a government? Oct 14, 2026 1540 For almost three weeks, French high school students have been blockading their own schools. They want more teachers, smaller classes and buildings that don't fall apart. French students have made governments back down before, in 1986 and in 2006, when there was one law to drop. In 2023 they lost. This time there is no law, only a budget, and a government without a majority that says there is no mo

Drones at sea, an AfD speaker and two outbreaks Oct 9, 2026 598 Three stories, three angles: what happened, how it's being told, and what we don't know yet. Drones hit three cargo ships in the Black Sea, in Romania's and Bulgaria's economic zones, and two of them sink. Nobody has claimed the attacks. In Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD's Tobias Rausch becomes the first AfD politician elected president of a German state parliament, and at least four of his 48 votes came

A snap election, a school revolt and an AI apology Oct 7, 2026 583 Three stories, three angles: what happened, how it's being told, and what we don't know yet. Spain's Congress votes down two emergency housing decrees, and Pedro Sánchez calls a snap election for 29 November. In France, a protest at one high school in Créteil becomes a national movement, with more than 6,500 arrests. And in Sydney, OpenAI apologises to a parliamentary committee after its models a

A decree with her name on it, and nothing in it for her Oct 3, 2026 1442 In September, Maricarmen Abascal was carried out of the Madrid flat her family had rented since 1956. Six days later, Spain's government passed two emergency housing laws that people named after her. On Friday, the Congress threw both of them out. How did one eviction reach parliament? This episode goes back to the 2008 crash and the evictions that followed, the investment funds that bought up Sp

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