What You Need To Know - the ITV News podcast with vital information and analysis

This is the home of ITV News: What You Need To Know, our regularly updated podcast with information and analysis that you can trust on the biggest stories in the UK and the world.

Our team of presenters and experts bring you everything you need to understand the major headline news of the day within minutes. 

In the latest quick-briefing episode, ITV News US Correspondent Dan Rivers tells Tom Bradby what you need to know.

Dan heads to Nashville, Tennessee, to see why it has become the frontline of America’s culture war, as its drag community goes head-to-head with its surrounding bible belt.

For more on this, head to ITVX to watch Dan's investigation in full in the latest episode of On Assignment.

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