[VIDEO PODCAST] "I opened the door and it's these SWAT guys with massive guns, they push me onto the bed, hold a gun to my head, and I'm like, what the hell is happening?"

Hello premium subscribers and sorry for the slight delay — you are the first to watch the inaugural Off-diary podcast episode with multi-award-winning journalist at The Times, Shayma Bakht.

I will not be doing a podcast episode every week because of the labour-intensive and time-consuming editing process required. I would if I could! Any feedback is most…