Broadcasting House

Rising fuel costs as the Strait of Hormuz remains closed for most oil tankers. What can the government do to help? Also: the Oscars and Paddy O'Connell and Greg James go cycling.

The US President says he doesn't need Sir Keir Starmer to send British aircraft carriers to the Gulf. Former defence secretary Ben Wallace tells BH the ships would only be for show. The conflict in Iran has sent gas prices soaring. Octopus Energy boss Greg Jackson spells out how that will affect energy bills here. Plus, the secretive world of moss collecting and Steve Rosenberg plays the Archers theme tune in the style of Rachmaninov.

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

The Sunday papers cover the fallout from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's arrest on Thursday over suspicion of misconduct in public office. We'll discuss with Jennie Bond and Andrew Marr. The final night of competition at the Winter Olympics ends in silver for Team GB's curlers. We'll look back at two weeks of weird and wonderful winter sport. Plus we celebrate opera with soprano Danielle de Niese, pine martins and Kenneth Williams - those are all separate features.

An MP tells BH there should be a new inquiry over Andrew's time as UK Trade Envoy. Also: reviews of Wuthering Heights and how retraining in middle age can be liberating.

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