A Guardian podcast episode features investigative journalist Lucas Amin discussing how the data analytics firm Palantir, sometimes labelled "the world's scariest company," secured a £330m contract with the NHS. Amin and colleague Peter Geoghegan investigated the relationship between the US tech giant and the UK's public health service, uncovering a story involving controversial politicians, paid political access and gaps in UK lobbying rules that allowed the company to build influence.

The episode, hosted by Nosheen Iqbal, also examines the practical fallout once Palantir's software was rolled out to NHS staff, asking whether it actually improved on the systems doctors and nurses previously used. The discussion draws on Amin and Geoghegan's investigative reporting to trace the political and regulatory pathways that enabled the contract, alongside frontline accounts of the software's real-world performance.