By now you’ve been inundated with images and news reports about the record-breaking heat crisis that hit nearly all of Europe last week, impacting France the most. The intensity of that was the cherry on top of a particularly punishing local news cycle in recent months, especially for CNN’s Paris bureau chief Saskya Vandoorne. She joins me to talk about what we can learn from the heat wave about our current climate crisis, as well as some of the very serious investigations she’s worked on since the start of the year. Warning: this episode contains discussions of sexual abuse and violence.

Mentioned in this episode:

Saskya Vandoorne, CNN

Heat wave in France

Paris is boiling

Gisèle Pelicot case

Investigation on abuse network

Exposing a global rape academy

Lyhanna case and justice system failures

Audio production & editing: Matthew Jordan

⁠Music by Little Glass Men⁠