Broadcasting House

We've a live brass band, a druid celebrating Winter Solstice at Stonehenge and Darren Jones with a review of the government's performance in 2025.

Eyewitnesses describe thousands of people fleeing as gunmen fire on iconic Sydney beach. We get an update from the scene. Plus, a massive change to the rail timetable, and Sheila Hancock goes for a drive.

Ukraine President Zelensky meets EU leaders and Keir Starmer in London tomorrow. Will it lead to a breakthrough? Also AI lit and three young women on being in care at Christmas.

Playwright Tom Stoppard has died aged 88. Actors Tom Hollander and Dame Harriet Walter tell us he was the greatest writer of his generation. We digest the week in Westminster as the Chancellor denies she misled the public over the UK’s finances prior to the Budget. Also, Petroc Trelawney’s guide to Advent music across the UK.

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. 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

Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.