Broadcasting House

Twelve killed and 300 injured in Houthi attack on airport in Saudi capital Riyadh. The Defence Secretary Wes Streeting joins us. As diesel hits a record price, we hear calls for cuts to fuel duty and VAT. Also on BH: Dolly Parton recorded Jolene in Welsh just before she died - we have a listen to the song released this weekend with her niece and the singer from Wales who's brought it to life. We c...

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

Paddy O'Connell interviews the prime minister's ally housing secretary Angela Rayner as the Labour Party conference gets underway in Liverpool. Plus, Paddy heads down to England's south coast and digs into the archive to investigate how public feeling has evolved over illegal migration and we meet the BH listener who realised he was having a stroke hours after an interview with a stroke victim tha...

Ukraine launch their biggest attack on the city ever. Steve Rosenberg joins us live. Spencer versus Windsor - we look at the history between the two families and speak to a friend of the King. A 96 year old listener recites a poem committed to memory, a 16 year old tells us how AI helped him create a farming app, and we've the morning news lines to learn from Julie Etchingham, John Sargeant + Popp...

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...

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...

Nigel Farage's spokesman says the Reform UK leader didn't break parliamentary rules despite fresh reports that benefits from ally weren't declared. Sunday Times investigative editor Gabriel Pogrund has the details. Also on BH Lyse Doucet in Iran, actor and mountaineer Brian Blessed on England's World Cup bid at altitude. The renaissance of the Lido. North America Editor Sarah Smith on USA's 250th...

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 p...

We get the latest on the prime minister's future from Henry Zeffman - as business secretary Peter Kyle tells the BBC that Keir Starmer is 'reflecting on political reality'. Dame Mary Beard draws parallels between the politicians of today and those of the classical world, and we get advice on political instability from Italian journalist Beppe Severgnini. Also, we mark the moment of the summer sols...

Royal Marine Commandos fast rope onto a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker in the English Channel. Scotland win their first World Cup match in 36 years. Radio 4 favourites Mark Steel, Sian Williams, Deborah Meadon and Giles Brandreth describe their secret holiday spots. Lemn Sissay returns to his childhood stomping ground Makerfield, who's by election is this week. On the news review Neil McIntosh, C...

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 write...

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

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

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. bh@bbc.co.uk

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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