Daily: BACK IN THE USSR? Author Sergei Lebedev on Russia’s unquiet past
Novelist Sergei Lebedev writes forensically detailed books which uncover how Soviet history still exerts its power on modern Russians. According to the New York Review of Books he’s “the best of Russi...
5 Mar 202121min
Daily: TRUST ISSUE – Why are minorities avoiding the COVID jab?
Why are so many minority patients rejecting the COVID vaccines and what can healthcare do about it? Vaccine hesitancy in minority communities is threatening to turn the pandemic into a specific crisis...
4 Mar 202128min
Daily: LITTLE ENGLAND vs GLOBAL BRITAIN – with ex-ambassador Peter Westmacott
Just how global can Britain be if we’re becoming ever-more insular after Brexit? Naomi Smith talks to Peter Westmacott, former ambassador to Turkey, France and the USA, about the hidden prejudices tha...
3 Mar 202131min
THE FAKE NEWS FIGHTBACK with guest Alan Rusbridger
Would you get get a vaccine passport if it meant you could go out to eat, drink and dance? Even if it created a two-tier Britain? Special guest Alan Rusbridger joins us to talk about his new book News...
2 Mar 20211h 3min
Will Sunak bring the pain? – Start Your Week with Arthur Snell
Will Wednesday’s Budget see the end of Sunshine Sunak or will the Chancellor put off the reckoning with financial Armageddon again? How will you spend the last week of home schooling? And what about t...
1 Mar 202126min
Weekend extra: ROBERT MAXWELL’s cash from chaos
Bully, liar, tyrant, fantasist, thief on a monumental scale – just ask the Mirror pensioners – and narcissist of an even greater magnitude, Robert Maxwell was a villain for whom the term “disgraced ne...
28 Feb 202124min
Daily: Life after Mutti? GERMANY’s post-Merkel future
After an initial COVID response that was lauded as an example to the world, Germany has experienced an unexpectedly harsh second wave. What will that mean for the twilight of the Merkel Era? Is German...
26 Feb 202123min
Daily: THE ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENT – The disasters that made Trump
Was the Trump Presidency just a publicity stunt that got out of hand? Film-maker James Fletcher’s new documentary on the 2016 campaign The Accidental President is streaming now on Amazon and Apple TV....
25 Feb 202126min
