A Times of Malta podcast that takes a closer look at the stories shaping Malta today. Hosted by award-winning journalist and assistant editor Mark Laurence Zammit.
Latest episodes
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40 min
Times Talk: The day the trial almost fell apart
One of the biggest and most consequential criminal trials in history almost fell apart on Friday.After 45 days of intense hearings, the defence demanded the judge dissolves the tri…
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37 min
Times Talk: What happened when the trial went silent
When the live blogs from the trial of Yorgen Fenech went silent on Friday, social media was flooded with people asking why no journalist would tell them what was going on.In this s…
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56 min
Melvin takes the stand against Yorgen Fenech
The taxi driver who says Yorgen Fenech paid him €150,000 to have Daphne Caruana Galizia spent five gruelling days on the witness stand this week, answering questions from prosecuto…
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43 min
Unpacking week 6 of the Yorgen Fenech trial
From WhatsApp chats and an infamous video to a huge Electrogas investigation, a lot happened this weekA week is a long time in politics, they say, and so it seems in the trial of Y…
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1 h 15
A sex abuse victim and the priest who told her to move on
In June 2025, a retired Maltese bishop caused a stir when he said on TV that abuse victims should first be encouraged to forgive their abusers before going to the police.As backlas…
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29 min
Inside week 5 in the trial of Yorgen Fenech | Times Talk
The latest episode of Times Talk unpacks the last two days of Keith Schembri's testimony during the trial of Yorgen Fenech earlier this week.In the 30-minute episode, court reporte…
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37 min
Times Talk: Why we're breaking our usual schedule to bring you this episode
Times Talk on the trial of Yorgen Fenech usually comes out on the weekend and includes a run-down of all that happened that week.But as former OPM chief of staff Keith Schembri too…
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20 min
The trial of Yorgen Fenech - Week 4
It was a week of claims, counterclaims and secret recordings as the fourth week of the Yorgen Fenech trial drew to a close.Times of Malta court reporter Clara Farrugia and editor-i…
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23 min
The trial of Yorgen Fenech - Week 3
As the third week of Yorgen Fenech's trial comes to a close, Times of Malta court reporter Clara Farrugia and editor-in-chief Herman Grech sat down for a new Times Talk episode to…
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26 min
Times Talk: Inside the second week of the trial of Yorgen Fenech
As the second week of Yorgen Fenech's trial comes to a close, Times of Malta court reporter Clara Farrugia and Mark Laurence Zammit sit down for a new Times Talk episode to unpack…
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30 min
Times Talk - The trial of Yorgen Fenech week 1
The trial of Yorgen Fenech, who is charged in connection with the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia, is one of the most consequential criminal trials in Malta's history.Three days i…
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1 h 20
The winners and losers of Malta's general election
Political analysts Pierre Portelli and Robert Musumeci help Mark Laurence Zammit dissect the current state of Maltese politics.They discuss the performance of the Labour and Nation…
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58 min
Times Talk: The secret life of your ballot
The country's going to the polls in less than 48 hours, and this latest episode of Times Talk is an essential guide for the perplexed.It breaks down the mechanics of Malta’s electo…
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42 min
Times Talk - Are election polls lying to us?
With just over a week remaining before Maltese voters head to the polls to choose Malta's next prime minister, the latest episode of Times Talk delves into the science and controve…
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59 min
Times Talk - Entitled voters, shackled leaders
It is very worrying the the election campaign has, so far, almost entirely revolved around 'what's in it for me', according to political analysts Lou Bondi and Michelle Attard Tonn…
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1 h 07
Times Talk - The elephants in Malta’s election room
The second week of Malta’s 2026 general election campaign sparked its first controversies. As Labour leader Robert Abela and Nationalist Party leader Alex Borg make their political…
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50 min
Times Talk - Power, underdogs, and a supermarket of promises
Prime Minister Robert Abela has called an early general election for May 30.The campaign’s opening days have already seen a wave of pledges and voter-focused measures, as the main…
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38 min
Twannie The mystery around Malta's schoolboy murder
The youngest daughter of Ġiġa and Leli Camilleri has called for the reopening of the Twannie Aquilina murder case, claiming her parents were wrongfully convicted of a brutal crime…
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51 min
The controversy: Bil-Malti or in English?
Broadcaster Peppi Azzopardi said he learned English as a young boy because the school he went to forced students to wear a sign around their neck that read: ‘I must speak in Englis…
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18 min
Times Talk: A tanker adrift
There is a Russian oil tanker adrift about 100km to the South East of Malta right now.Its crew abandoned it two weeks ago after it was hit by a huge explosion.Russia hasn't come to…