{"podcast":{"title":"The Story","slug":"the-story-7774740","podcast_index_feed_id":7774740,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6915466/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-story--6915466","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/08ee4c8eef0efb32bf18d137f101d618.jpg","author":"PII","episode_count":1000,"summary":"The biggest stories, told in depth, daily. Join the world's best journalists to uncover what really matters. Hosted by Manveen Rana and Luke Jones. Published seven days a week and ready for you every morning. The Story is brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-22T04:18:27.534529+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-story-7774740"},"episode":{"title":"The return of Ebola","slug":"the-return-of-ebola","published_at":"2026-05-20T00:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-story-7774740/the-return-of-ebola","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-story-7774740","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-return-of-ebola--72076629","audio_url":"https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72076629/media.mp3","summary":"A new Ebola outbreak, driven by a rare strain of the virus, has struck the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The rapid rise in cases and deaths suggests that the virus had been circulating for some time before the alarm was raised. So why wasn’t it detected sooner? And have recent international aid cuts made us more vulnerable to outbreaks of infectious diseases? This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory Guest: Paul Hunter, professor in medicine, University of East Anglia. Host: Manveen Rana.Producers: Micaela Arneson, Julia Webster.We want to hear from you - email: thestory@thetimes.com Read more: ‘There are bodies everywhere’: ghost of ebola returns to haunt Congo Further listening: How the hantavirus cruise ship nightmare unfolded - The Saturday Story Clips: PBS, AFP.Photo: Getty Images. This podcast was brought to you thanks to subscribers of The Times and The Sunday Times. To enjoy unlimited digital access to all our journalism subscribe here . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"A new Ebola outbreak, driven by a rare strain of the virus, has struck the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. The rapid rise in cases and deaths…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1773,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-story-7774740/episodes/the-return-of-ebola/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-story-7774740/the-return-of-ebola.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}