Broadcasting House
The Sunday morning magazine programme with a fresh approach to the news and discussion about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
Episodes
Attack on Riyadh Airport: Defence Secretary joins us
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
04/10/2026
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
Burnham prepares for first Labour conference as leader
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
Drones over Moscow
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
Reform's £72 million donation
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
Will Andy Burnham get his coronation?
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
The UK sends jets to the Middle East as Israel and Iran exchange air strikes
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
01/11/2020
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
25/10/2020
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
18/10/2020
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
04/10/2020
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
19/07/2020
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
22/03/2020
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
17/11/2019
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
13/10/2019
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
20/10/2019
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.
08/09/2019
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.
25/08/2019
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
18/08/2019
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
01/09/2019
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
16/06/2019
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell
31/03/2019
Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.
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