
Twenty Minute Topic Episode 70: Assisted Dying
Marcus Stead and Greg Lance-Watkins discuss the topic of assisted dying in a way that is both sensitive and forthright. This is a complicate...
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Marcus Stead and Greg Lance-Watkins discuss the topic of assisted dying in a way that is both sensitive and forthright. This is a complicate...

The Princess of Wales has revealed in a video message that in January, she underwent major abdominal surgery. While the surgery was successf...

Time To Reflect Where is Julie and how is Hollie over two decades on from Michael’s death and how does she feel about the MOD and remembranc...

Blood Money No amount of money - big or small - equates or compensates for Michael’s death. Hear how the MOD admit negligence - but it is no...

Julie makes the trip to Sierra Leone to see where Michael was killed. Suddenly, and only now, do the Ministry of Defence begin to admit liab...

Just over one year on from Michael’s death, it is time for the inquest. Will Julie finally get any answers? The podcast series is available...

Michael is laid to rest. But unrest is laid bare. The funeral is cancelled, then re-arranged. The guest list is vetted….A comedy of errors a...

Days later, Michael’s body is returned to the UK. His widow Julie is lied to about which airbase he is coming into. Then, as his body goes m...

December 2001. Michael has been home on leave. It is the only time he will see his newborn daughter Hollie. The podcast series is available...

It is 0630, 28 January 2002. There is a knock on the door. Michael is dead. The podcast series is available on the Talk Podcasts website, iT...

On 27 January 2002, Corporal Michael Phillips was killed in Sierra Leone. He had just returned there after a brief visit home before Christm...

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The new physical reality. David is blind. Hosted by Tony Horne.

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British policeman David Rathband is gunned down in Newcastle upon Tyne. This is his story. But where does it start? Hosted by Tony Horne.

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It has now been more than three years since the United Kingdom formally left the European Union. Since then, the UK, and the world, has gone...
In this specially-extended Christmas edition of Twenty Minute Topic, Marcus Stead and Greg Lance-Watkins look into Britain’s energy crisis....
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For more than 70 years, the Queen was our country’s Head of State, and she was also Head of the Commonwealth, a body of nations that clearly...
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AFTER nearly twenty years, British and American military involvement in Afghanistan is finally at an end. But why was our military ever sent...
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THE RECENT report by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) into antisemitism in the Labour Party delivered a damning verdict on Je...