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20 of 74 episodesBest of Today: What should children learn?
The government has started a major review of the curriculum and assessment in England's schools, chaired by education policy expert Becky Fr...
Today Listener Series: Young people and politics
Earlier this year, the Today programme gave our listeners the chance to look at an issue that matters to them. Herbie and Ayesha both voted...
Today Listener Series: NHS Forensic Psychology centre in Liverpool
All this week we've been hearing stories brought to us by Today listeners. Dr Lisa Wright and Dr Mark Walton are both clinical psychologists...
Today Listener Series: Is university worth it?
Earlier this year, the Today programme gave our listeners the chance to look at an issue that matters to them. Anna and Chloe - along with C...
Today Listener Series: Where's my bus?
Earlier this year we gave listeners the chance to ask us to look at an issue for them. Martin and Sandra from Macclesfield, in East Cheshire...
Today Listener Series: The disappearing children
All this week the Today programme is looking at stories that have been brought to us by our listeners. Vanessa and Toby are parent governors...
Garry Richardson's 50 years at the BBC
Garry Richardson has finished his last sports bulletin on Radio 4's Today programme - 50 years to the day since he started at the BBC. Garry...
Dr Clare Bailey Mosley: We want to honour Michael’s work
Radio 4 is marking Friday 12th as “Just One Thing Day” in celebration of Dr Michael Mosley’s life and legacy. Throughout the week, we’ve ask...
The Today Debate: Is justice delayed, justice denied?
The Today Debate is about taking a subject and pulling it apart with more time than we have in the morning. Amid a significant backlog in cr...
Theresa May: 'During PMQs my blood sugar went up'
When Theresa May was diagnosed with type 1 in her 50s, she told the consultant: "I'm too old. I can't be”. Lady May says she would also eat...
Dame Emma Walmsley Guest Edits Today
The last of our Christmas guest editors is the CEO of the global biopharma company GSK, Dame Emma Walmsley. She wanted her programme to look...
Professor Jason Arday Guest Edits Today
Professor Jason Arday is our latest Christmas guest editor. This year he was appointed as one of Cambridge’s youngest ever professors. A sig...
Andrew Malkinson Guest Edits Today
Andrew Malkinson is Today's latest Christmas guest editor. He spent 17 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit before being cleared in...
Ellie Goulding Guest Edits Today
The singer and UN environment ambassador Ellie Goulding is the latest Today programme Christmas guest editor. Ellie uses her programme to ex...
James May Guest Edits Today
James May, The Grand Tour and former Top Gear presenter, is Today’s latest Christmas guest editor. He looks at the future of driverless cars...
Hanif Kureishi Guest Edits Today
The writer Hanif Kureishi - who is our second Christmas guest editor this year - had a life changing accident which paralysed him on Boxing...
Dr Nicola Fox Guest Edits Today
Dr Nicola Fox, Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate NASA is the first of our Christmas guest editors this year. Her p...
'To see my mum again is an incredible thing'
The daughter of Yocheved Lifschitz, one of the hostages freed last night, has visited her mother in hospital in Israel and has told Today sh...
Emma Raducanu on her return to tennis
Emma Raducanu burst onto the world stage back in 2021 when she went from being an almost unknown 18 year old tennis player to winning the US...
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