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

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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. [email protected]

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.