Back to School: Your Questions Answered
As pupils start to return to school in England, Nicky Campbell puts your questions to BBC Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys and specialist in outbreak disease control, Nathalie MacDermott.
2 Sep 202047min
How is the pandemic affecting cancer care?
How might the pandemic affect the numbers of those seeking treatment or being diagnosed for cancer in the future?Stephen Nolan talks to people who have been undergoing cancer treatment during the Covid-19 lockdown.
22 Aug 202029min
Schools Minister on exam algorithm problems
Schools Minister Nick Gibb MP speaks to BBC Radio 5 Live’s Nicky Campbell about the government’s exam algorithm, which downgraded around 40% of last week's A level results, leading to a public outcry and concerns about GCSEs.This was originally broadcast on 5 Live Breakfast on Thursday, 20 August 2020.
20 Aug 202016min
What does the grades U-turn mean for universities?
Tens of thousands of students may now have the grades to trade up to their first-choice university offers, following the government's grading U-turn. But will there be enough university places for everyone? And what is the situation for BTEC students?5 Live's Nicky Campbell talks to university staff, students and teachers.
18 Aug 202046min
Exam results: have we passed the test?
With so much anger around about the A-levels situation, on today's Your Call Nicky Campbell focuses on the solutions. What could have been done better?
14 Aug 202048min
Andy Burnham: Fix test and trace in August, or close pubs
The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham tells Stephen Nolan that we have the month of August to get track and trace sorted out or we should be closing pubs when schools go back.
8 Aug 202025min
Hiroshima bomb remembered 75 years on
The Hiroshima bomb, known as "Little Boy" devastated an area of five square miles. The initial blast killed nearly 120,000 people - with the after-effects of radiation killing many thousands more. Around 60% of the buildings in the city were destroyed. One of which, just 1.1 kilometres from the epicentre of the blast, housed little 8-month-old Koko Kondo who amazingly survived. Speaking to 5 Live’s Emma Barnett, Koko, who now works as a peace activist, explained how it was decades later before her parents told her the full story of that day and how she felt when she met the co-pilot of the plane which dropped the bomb.
6 Aug 202021min
Beirut explosion: Reaction in Lebanon and the UK
Rescue workers in Lebanon are searching for more than a hundred people who are missing after a huge explosion devastated the port area of the capital Beirut on Tuesday.The blast killed at least 100 people and injured more than 4,000 others.5 Live's Nicky Campbell speaks to people affected in Beirut and the UK, and finds out more about the political and economic situation in Lebanon.
5 Aug 202047min
