Broadcasting House

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  Reform's £72 million donation 13.09.2026 50min

  Conservative pollster Lord Hayward voices concern over the role of big money in politics and we get the reaction of billionaire donor John Caudwell. Paddy visits one of the UK's only hybrid schools, where pupils mix online home learning with one day a week in class. Is it an answer to absenteeism? Former Labour MP John Ashworth asks for your poetry suggestions to help him recover from a stroke and we test your pronunciation of hard to say place names after Angela Rayner fell foul of Worcester this week.
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  US envoys head to Kyiv after Moscow talks 06.09.2026 51min

  Simon Jack presents BH: James Landale on Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner's visit to Ukraine after talks in Moscow. A preview of the by-election battle triggered by Sir Keir Starmer stepping down as an MP. What are you reading? Author and columnist James Marriott warns we're heading for a literacy dark age as people move to screens from pages. How to prep for public service emergencies in style and Sir John Curtice on the power or not of polling. On the news review West Yorkshire metro mayor Tracy Brabin, comic and writer Kiri Pritchard-McLean and GB news political editor Christopher Hope.
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  Andy Burnham: PC Harper's killers to stay in jail 30.08.2026 50min

  PM tells BBC that those convicted of unlawful killing won't be eligible for early release. We have reaction from a former Conservative Justice Secretary who himself introduced some early release. Plus, a warning from the man Andy Burnham tried to recruit as a Treasury minister: don't apply a wealth tax but DO scrap the triple lock on pensions. Also on BH, we hear a call to name our favourite hymns amid fears fewer of us are belting them out. Women spend much longer than men queueing for public toilets - do we need to re-think our approach to public loos? And, we go live to Cape Canaveral ahead of the launch of the new Grace Roman space telescope.The headliners are Rory Sutherland, Ava Glass and Lizzy Buchan.
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  England's mayors to get more planning powers 23.08.2026 49min

  England's mayors will get greater powers to overrule councils in some planning decisions, but will it help the government's new homes target? We hear from house builder Eleanor Deeley of Deeley Group. The mayor of the Italian town Como speaks to us about banning cyclists, after he was hit by an e-bike. Why has behaviour deteriorated in our public spaces? Expert Kirsty Sedgman joins us live.Shipbuilding has returning to the yard which built the Titanic - Harland and Wolff. The BBC's Ireland correspondent Chris Page reports from Belfast, and we speak to the famous firm's new owners. It's harvest time for many amateur growers - allotment holders Katie Razzall, Sir John Curtice and Frances Tophill tells us what's thrived and what's died - and we get growing tips from gardening expert Terry Walton.Our newspaper reviewers are Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, who founded the Black Farmer food range. Calum Leslie, Radio 1's Newsbeat presenter, and the writer and broadcaster Naomi Alderman.
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  Will Andy Burnham get his coronation? 30.06.2026 50min

  Andy Burnham's path to Number 10 looks clear as he prepares to set out his vision for the economy. He could have just three weeks until taking office. Also on Broadcasting House, we meet teenage carers looking after their loved ones whilst sitting their exams, Harry Redknapp gives his half time report on the World Cup - and we hear moments that bring us together from Buckingham Palace to the pub piano.Our news reviewers are Patrick Maguire, chief political commentator for The Times, relationship coach and therapist Lucy Cavendish, and DJ Fat Tony, author of 'Recover Me'.
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  The UK sends jets to the Middle East as Israel and Iran exchange air strikes 18.08.2025 58min

  Paddy O'Connell and Lyse Doucet present this week’s Broadcasting House as the conflict between Israel and Iran ramps up. Cabinet minister Darren Jones discusses the UK's role, as well as the announcement of national inquiry into grooming gangs. Plus, the hyperglot who speaks more than 15 languages, and the BH press review with Alice Bunn of UK Space, George Parker of the Financial Times, and writer and broadcaster Maria McErlane.
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  01/11/2020 01.11.2020 1u

  The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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  25/10/2020 25.10.2020 1u

  The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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  18/10/2020 18.10.2020 1u

  Dating in the age of corona, Batman in Liverpool, a united Manchester and Brexit. With Dame Esther Rantzen, Val McDermid and Alistair Barrie on the paper review. [email protected]
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  04/10/2020 04.10.2020 58min

  The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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  19/07/2020 19.07.2020 1u

  The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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  22/03/2020 22.03.2020 1u

  The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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  17/11/2019 22.11.2019 1u

  The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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  13/10/2019 25.10.2019 1u

  The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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  20/10/2019 25.10.2019 1u

  Paddy O'Connell explains what the Prime Minister's letters to the EU mean. The Latvian foreign minister gives his take on how the EU will respond. Steve Rosenberg takes a tour of East Berlin with the last communist leader of the GDR, thirty years on from the fall of the Berlin wall. And the press review with Richard Quest of CNN, Sathnam Sanghera of The Times and the economist Ruth Lea.
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  08/09/2019 23.09.2019 1u

  Paddy O'Connell examines a difficult week for Boris Johnson and his biographer puts him in the psychiatrist's chair. The threat to native trees and a celebration of a 90 year old conductor's last concert at the Proms. Papers reviewed by Elinor Goodman, Matthew Wright and House of Commons Chaplain Rose Hudson-Wilkin.
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  25/08/2019 09.09.2019 1u 2min

  The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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  18/08/2019 09.09.2019 1u

  The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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  01/09/2019 09.09.2019 1u 2min

  The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
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  16/06/2019 16.06.2019 1u 1min

  The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell