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What the doctor ordered
A report on NHS Wales urges turnaround and what's up with Labour's partnership in power?
01 May 2025,·40 mins
The Looking Glass
Five original essays on the power and politics of children’s fiction.
18 Oct 2024,·14 mins
Cardiff
Fiona Bruce presents an hour of topical debate from Cardiff
03 Apr 2025,·59 mins
Series 7
19/08/2019
Peter Hennessy invites Peter Hain to reflect on his life and times
19 Aug 2019,·42 mins
Ukraine peace? Hybu Cig Cymru, drugs in prisons, the Pope
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers.
27 Apr 2025,·60 mins
The American Guardrails
Can democracy ever be safe?
28 Oct 2024,·42 mins
Week Two Omnibus - From the Abolition of Atlantic Slavery to the Freedom of Information Act
A new series exploring the long history of struggles for liberty in Britain.
18 Jan 2019,·57 mins
A Mayor for Hull and East Yorkshire (14/04/2025)
Tim Iredale quizzes candidates in the election for Mayor of Hull and East Yorkshire.
14 Apr 2025,·60 mins
8. Shredded
Hoover’s death starts a race to control his secret files. But his power continues.
23 Jun 2022,·14 mins
Episode 50: The End of the Beginning
The Irish delegation agrees to sign up to the Anglo-Irish Treaty.
10 Dec 2021,·35 mins
Episode 5
Status. We don’t like to talk about it. Carl Honoré brings it out into the open.
02 Aug 2024,·14 mins
Cheap British Beer
The story of money and humanity reaches a run on the punt and the rise of M-PESA.
15 Nov 2024,·14 mins
Episode 2
Steve Richards tells the inside story of the Lib Dems' turbulent years in government.
17 Feb 2014,·28 mins
Westminster Hour 27 April 2025
Local elections the gender row and negotiating with Donald Trump
27 Apr 2025,·49 mins
Surviving Politics with Michael Gove
Humza Yousaf
Michael talks to Humza Yousaf about working out who you can trust and managing allies.
25 Oct 2024,·23 mins
The Courts
James Naughtie examines why Donald Trump's judges may be his greatest achievement.
22 Feb 2021,·28 mins
Episode 5: Politics versus the Past
Misha Glenny explores the European memory wars.
04 Oct 2024,·14 mins
2009: Our House - Episode 5
How might a young couple, unable to buy their first home today, have fared in 2009?
30 Aug 2019,·15 mins
Should national service be reintroduced? - with former defence minister Tobias Ellwood and president of the NUS Amira Campbell
Former defence minister Tobias Ellwood & NUS president Amira Campbell on national service.
22 Aug 2024,·28 mins
Episode 3
The fall of the Shah led to the creation of the world's first Islamic republic.
01 Jul 2009,·30 mins
2. Reform
Amanda Foreman considers reform on the ground as the disenfranchised rebel.
30 Jul 2014,·30 mins
Le Divide - Fraternite
How France is facing the challenges of liberty, fraternity and equality. Today: fraternite
25 Mar 2020,·28 mins
9. The Wilderness Year: This Ain't Over
Bonus episode - Boris Johnson after Downing Street.
15 Jun 2023,·33 mins
The Ethics of AI
Professor Michael Sandel and an audience at the Hay Festival consider the ethics of AI.
11 Jun 2024,·37 mins
Michael Portillo asks whether free-market capitalism is a broken system.
04 Oct 2011,·45 mins
The Birth of the NHS
Martha Kearney looks at the arguments over creating the NHS in wartime government papers.
30 Jun 2018,·57 mins
Series 1
Steve Richards looks back at David Cameron's years in power and explores his legacy.
22 Jan 2018,·28 mins
Old Friends, New Friends.
Nick Robinson considers our place in the world in the run up to the G7 summit in Cornwall.
11 Jun 2021,·14 mins
Cohesion
Baroness Casey looks at some of the challenges facing whoever wins the general election.
05 Jan 2024,·28 mins
18/04/2025
BBC NI’s politics podcast on Radio Ulster, going behind the frontline of politics.
18 Apr 2025,·30 mins
