US increases pressure on Cuba

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The US justice department is reportedly preparing to indict former Cuban leader Raúl Castro in the coming days over the shooting down of two aircraft three decades ago. We’ll hear from a pilot that narrowly avoided being shot down. Also in today’s programme: Austria prepares to host the Eurovision grand final on Saturday evening in an event steeped in political division and controversy with 5 European nations boycotting over Israel’s participation; and where did all the tenors go? We hear why there may be a shortage of them in choirs across the world. Presenter Julian Worricker is joined by Yu Jie, a senior research fellow on China at Chatham House in London, and Soumaya Keynes, a columnist on economics for the Financial Times newspaper and co-author of a new book, How to Win a Trade War: A Friendly Guide to an Unfriendly World. Photo: People wait to enter a bank in Havana, Cuba, 14 May 2026.(Credit: Ernesto Mastrascusa, EPA/Shutterstock)