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When billionaire British entrepeneur Mike Lynch drowned during the sinking of the superyacht Bayesian in August, it sent shockwaves around the world.Having just successfully fought off the US Justice Department on fourteen counts of fraud and conspiracy, he was celebrating his newfound freedom when he was tragically killed during a freak storm.After months of work by our senior reporter, Henry Bodkin, the Daily T investigates what might have caused a boat that was previously described as unsinkable to vanish beneath the waves.Clips in this episode from: BBC NewsnightBBC NewsUniversity of Cambridge Judge Business SchoolBBC Radio 4Sky NewsAPPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyExecutive Producer: Louisa WellsSound Design: Elliot LampittSocial Media Producer: Niamh WalshStudio Operator: Meghan Searle

Today we’re handing The Daily T over to The Telegraph’s legendary interviewer, Mick Brown.In the course of a long career in journalism Mick Brown has interviewed many of the most significant cultural figures of the past 50 years - and he kept the tapes. In the first of an occasional series he delves into his archive to bring you interviews with Stephen Sondheim, David Bowie, and many more.In this first episode he remembers meeting the man who reinvented the musical Stephen Sondheim in New York in 2010. In this conversation they discussed his long and storied career, his tempestuous upbringing, his tutelage under the beady eye of Oscar Hammerstein, what makes a musical great. In moments of rare candour, Sondheim also spoke of his time in therapy, his anxieties about ageing - and did his best to skirt the subject of love...Read Mick's original interview with Sondheim here: Still cutting it at 80: Stephen Sondheim interviewMusicMitzi Gaynor sings "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair" from the 1958 film of Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific (Magna, 20th Century-Fox)Richard Rodgers (Composer) and Oscar Hammerstein II (Lyricist)Gloria Grahame sings "I Can't Say No" from the 1955 film of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! (Magna, RKO)Richard Rodgers (Composer) and Oscar Hammerstein II (Lyricist)Neil Patrick Harris sings "Being Alive" from the 2011 filmed production of Company with the New York Philharmonic (Screenvision)Stephen SondheimGlynis Johns sings on "Send in the Clowns" from the 1982 broadcast 'That's Singing - The Best of Broadway' (Warner Studios)Stephen SondheimSeries Editor: Serena DaviesSound Design: Elliot LampittExecutive Producers: Giles Gear and Louisa WellsSocial Media Producer: Niamh Walsh

It’s Christmas Eve and that can only mean one thing: a big fat quiz. How closely have Kamal and Camilla really been following the news this year? And are they au fait with 2024 pop culture?Tim Stanley asks the questions in the inaugural Daily T Big Christmas Quiz, which includes a round on the bloopers and pre-show chat that never make it to air.Producer: Lilian FawcettVideo Editor: James EnglandSocial Media Producer: Niamh WalshStudio Operator: Meghan SearleEditor: Camilla TomineyOriginal music by Goss Studio

What film and TV made our critics' best of 2024 lists? And what should we be watching over the festive period?Join Telegraph Film Editor Robbie Collin and TV critic Anita Singh as they guide you through their favourites of the year and the best of the Christmas offerings!Senior Producer: John CadiganVideo Editor: James EnglandSocial Media Producer: Niamh WalshStudio Operator: Meghan SearleOriginal music by Goss Studio

t was front-page news when earlier this year, rapper and businessman Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was arrested after facing a wave of civil lawsuits related to allegations including sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and rape.Then earlier this month, an amended lawsuit filed in a federal court in New York alleged that fellow rap star Jay-Z had raped a 13-year-old girl with Combs during a party in 2000, an allegation Jay-Z has denied, calling it a “blackmail attempt” by the lawyer who is behind it all.Tony Buzbee is representing those accusing them - a multi-millionnaire lawyer who lives in one of the most expensive houses in Houston, Texas. The Telegraph's Mick Brown has traveled to the US to interview him and joins Kamal to tell us what it was like to meet the man behind a media storm.Producers: Georgia CoanExecutive Producer: Louisa WellsVideo Editor: James EnglandSocial Media Producer: Niamh WalshStudio Operator: Meghan SearleEditor: Camilla TomineyOriginal music by Goss Studio

Gisèle Pelicot’s courage, resilience and fortitude in publically proving a decade of rape and sexual abuse at the hands of her husband and fifty other men has transformed her from septuagenarian grandmother to French national hero.Dominique Pelicot will go down as one of the worst sex offenders in modern French history, having been sentenced to 20 years in prison for drugging Gisèle and inviting dozens of men to rape her in her home in the south of France.Kamal and Camilla speak to The Telegraph's Paris correspondent Henry Samuel from the courthouse in Avignon, Provence, where he has been following the trial and its conclusion.Elsewhere, they speak to The Telegraph's Lucy Foster, who is spearheading our Christmas Charity Appeal, about the final of the four nominated charities this year - the Teenage Cancer Trust.You can read more about the work done by the Teenage Cancer Trust on The Telegraph website using the link below. Other charities we are supporting include: Humanity and Inclusion, Alzheimer's Research UK and Army Benevolent Fund. To donate to any of them, please visit telegraph.co.uk/2024appeal or call 0151 317 5247.Producers: Georgia Coan and Lilian FawcettSenior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyExecutive Producer: Louisa WellsVideo Editor: James EnglandSocial Media Producer: Niamh WalshStudio Operator: Meghan SearleEditor: Camilla TomineyOriginal music by Goss Studio

It is surely an image for the history books. Nigel Farage stood next to two billionaires, one of them Elon Musk, at Donald Trump’s Florida estate. The X owner is reported to be considering donating as much as $100 million to Reform UK.Is this foreign interference in our politics? And what would a history-making donation to Farage’s party mean for Labour and the Tories?Plus, political editor Ben Riley-Smith has been speaking to Keir Starmer about Russia and tax - on board a frigate in Estonia, no less.We also hear from veteran broadcaster Alastair Stewart about living with dementia and his work with Alzheimer’s Research UK.You can read more about the work done by Alzheimer’s Research UK on The Telegraph website using the link below. Other charities we are supporting include: Humanity and Inclusion, Teenage Cancer Trust and Army Benevolent Fund. To donate to any of them, please visit telegraph.co.uk/2024appeal or call 0151 317 5247.Read: Alastair Stewart: I can’t tie my own shoelaces now, by Louise CarpenterProducer: Georgia Coan and Lilian FawcettSenior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyExecutive Producer: Louisa WellsVideo Editor: Andy MacKenzieSocial Media Producer: Niamh WalshStudio Operator: Meghan SearleEditor: Camilla TomineyOriginal music by Goss Studio

New figures show that not only has the economy contracted, but job hiring is at a record low.Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves strode into Downing Street on July 5th talking about just one thing - growth. But since then the government has raised employers’ national insurance contributions, slapped taxes on farmers, slashed winter fuel allowance and now worse news still - the economy officially shrunk in October and the number of job vacancies is at a record low. So, is Rachel Reeves the worst chancellor in history?Plus, we’ll hear from a veteran who lost both his legs and his right arm in Afghanistan and how the Army Benevolent Fund - another of the charities the Telegraph is supporting this Christmas - changed his life.You can read more about the work done by the Army Benevolent Fund on The Telegraph website using the link below. Other charities we are supporting include: Alzheimer’s Research UK, Teenage Cancer Trust and Humanity and Inclusion. To donate to any of them, please visit telegraph.co.uk/2024appeal or call 0151 317 5247.Read:The Telegraph Christmas Charity Appeal 2024: Who we are supporting and how you can donateOut of respect for those who died, I have to keep going, by Andy ReidProducers: Lilian Fawcett & Georgia CoanSenior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyExecutive Producer: Louisa WellsVideo Editor: Andy MackenzieSocial Media Producer: Niamh WalshStudio Operator: Meghan SearleEditor: Camilla TomineyOriginal music by Goss Studio

A Chinese businessman and alleged spy has now been identified as Yang Tengbo after a court order protecting his identity was lifted.He was banned from the UK last week amid claims he had formed an "unusual degree of trust" with the Duke of York - Prince Andrew. Judges were told the businessman was attempting to leverage the disgraced Prince's influence. Former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith joins us in The Daily T studio to explain why the alleged spy could be one of many such Chinese agents operating "in plain view" . And could fresh evidence from the legal team for former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby prove her innocence?This week we will be highlighting the work done by the four charities The Telegraph is supporting in our Christmas appeal. In today's episode, we'll be looking at Humanity and Inclusion, a global charity working alongside disabled and vulnerable people in 60 countries affected by poverty, conflict and disaster.You can read more about the work done by Humanity and Inclusion, as well as Adelie Pojzman-Pontay and Francis Dearnley's reporting from Kharkiv, on The Telegraph’s website. Other charities we are supporting include: Alzheimer’s Research UK, Teenage Cancer Trust and Army Benevolent Fund. To donate to any of them, please visit telegraph.co.uk/2024appeal or call 0151 317 5247.Read: Booby-trapped teddy bears: Ukraine’s bunker school teaching children new threats, by Francis DearnleyProducer: Georgia CoanSenior Producer: John CadiganPlanning Editor: Venetia RaineyExecutive Producer: Louisa WellsVideo Editor: Aaron WheelerSocial Media Producer: Robbie NicholsStudio Operator: Meghan SearleEditor: Camilla TomineyOriginal music by Goss Studio