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Unspun World with John Simpson

NewsDocumentary

Unspun World provides an unvarnished version of the week's major global news stories - reliable, honest and essential viewing with the BBC's world affairs editor John Simpson.

Feb 23, 20226 seasons119 episodesReturning SeriesEN

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John Simpson

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Seasons

Series 1

32 episodes

Premiered Feb 23, 2022

Series 2

8 episodes

Premiered May 17, 2023

Series 3

22 episodes

Premiered Sep 23, 2023

Series 4

27 episodes

Premiered May 8, 2024

Series 5

30 episodes

Premiered Apr 30, 2025

Series 6

10 episodes

Premiered Apr 22, 2026

Episodes

1–6 of 32

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Ep 1

23/02/2022

Feb 23, 2022

27m

Unspun World provides an unvarnished version of the week's major global news stories - reliable, honest and essential viewing. The BBC's world affairs editor John Simpson brings his experience and expertise to bear on the most important international stories. In discussion with the BBC's unparalleled range of experts across the world, he uses their unique local knowledge to go beyond the headlines to get to the unspun truth about the world.

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Ep 2

02/03/2022

Mar 2, 2022

24m

John Simpson is in Finland this week - a country very impacted by the events in neighbouring Russia and Ukraine. In discussion with the BBC's unparalleled range of experts across the world, he examines why the intelligence on Putin's Ukraine intentions was so accurate, how the war is being reported in the Russian media and what China's attitude is to the conflict.

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Ep 3

09/03/2022

Mar 9, 2022

26m

John Simpson examines how Russian military strategy in Ukraine has fared, how the war has transformed American foreign policy and what is Africa’s attitude towards Russia and the conflict.

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Ep 4

16/03/2022

Mar 16, 2022

26m

Unspun World provides an unvarnished version of the week's major global news stories - reliable, honest and essential viewing. The BBC's world affairs editor, John Simpson, brings his experience and expertise to bear on the most important international stories. In discussion with the BBC's unparalleled range of experts across the world, he uses their unique local knowledge to go beyond the headlines to get to the unspun truth about the world.

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Ep 5

23/03/2022

Mar 23, 2022

26m

John Simpson, in discussion with the BBC’s unparalleled range of experts across the world, examines what repercussions the war in Ukraine might have on the Iran nuclear deal. He also considers the disinformation war being fought on social media over the conflict, and how the war in Ukraine has led Britain and other countries to face up to queries over billionaires trying to sportswash questionable money.

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Ep 6

30/03/2022

Mar 30, 2022

26m

Unspun World provides an unvarnished version of the week's major global news stories - reliable, honest and essential viewing. The BBC's world affairs editor John Simpson brings his experience and expertise to bear on the most important international stories. In discussion with the BBC's unparalleled range of experts across the world he uses their unique local knowledge to go beyond the headlines to get to the unspun truth about the world.

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