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Burnham prepares for first Labour conference as leader Sep 27, 2026

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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 that he'd heard on this programme two Sundays back.

Drones over Moscow Sep 20, 2026

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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 + Poppy Coburn. Plus - AI reviews the one liners of Tony Blackburn.

Reform's £72 million donation Sep 13, 2026

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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.

US envoys head to Kyiv after Moscow talks Sep 06, 2026

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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.

Andy Burnham: PC Harper's killers to stay in jail Aug 30, 2026

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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.

Will Andy Burnham get his coronation? Jun 30, 2026

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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'.

The UK sends jets to the Middle East as Israel and Iran exchange air strikes Aug 18, 2025

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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.

01/11/2020 Nov 01, 2020

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

25/10/2020 Oct 25, 2020

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

18/10/2020 Oct 18, 2020

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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

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