Sunday Supplement: Recent Episodes
BBC Radio Wales
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round-up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
As it's the summer break, we've taken the opportunity to reflect on Senedd politics over the last three months since that seismic election in May. Plaid Cymru made history becoming the largest party, Reform came from nothing to being official opposition and the former big beasts in Welsh politics were decimated. From Plaid Cymru, Chief Whip and Cabinet Member for Culture and Sport Heledd Fychan joins us in the studio. Cai Parry-Jones, Reform's finance spokesperson gives his take on how things are going so far for his party. And Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat MSs, Andrew RT Davies, Jayne Bryant and Jane Dodds reflect on the terrible result for them and how they've managed in the new, enlarged Senedd. Also joining James Williams in the studio, political correspondent Cemlyn Davies with his analysis.
With three Welsh MPs in Andy Burnham's new cabinet, we speak with Lord Hain, former Secretary of State for Wales about how Stephen Kinnock will go about the job, and changes the Labour grandee would like to see made to pension provision. Kemi Badenoch was in Newport and James went to see her. She has a very positive view of the future of the Welsh Conservatives. Huw Irranca-Davies has been Llywydd for a little over two months. He explains the highs and lows of his new job. And an exhibition has opened in Cardiff central library documenting the history of Sikhs in Wales. Harry Singh whose grandfather established the capital's first gurdwara in the 1950s is with us in the studio.
Continuing our series meeting new members of the Senedd, this week we have the company of Alun Cox, one of Plaid Cymru's three MSs representing Afan Ogwr Rhondda.
Andy Burnham has replaced Keir Starmer as Labour leader, and will soon be PM. Newport West and Islwyn MP Ruth Jones looks back at Starmer's legacy and ahead to Burnham's tenure. Police are investigating a death threat against a Senedd member, and Conservative MS Natasha Asghar has had her office window smashed. She tells us about her experience. Gorffwysfa is the original name of Canada's official residence for their prime minister. Monocle's man in Toronto Tomos Lewis knows all about how that name came about and how the building is in great need of repair. Gwynfor Evans won Plaid Cymru's first parliamentary seat in Carmarthen in July 1966. His son Guto Prys ap Gwynfor was there and recalls its significance.
Continuing our series meeting new MSs, we hear from Cristiana Emsley, one of Reform's two new members in Fflint Wrecsam.
Andy Burnham is more than likely to become our next Prime Minister, whilst Welsh Labour look set to announce Ken Skates as their permanent leader. Wales Online's Ruth Mosalski has all the details. As Farage triggers a byelection in Clacton, we look at how we got here with the Guardian's Anna Isaac. Up to ten surgical hubs are planned for Wales. Professor Jon Barry from the Royal College of Surgeons explains how the elective care expert group intends to make them happen. Climate charity the Size of Wales turned 15 this week. Their deputy director Barbara Davies-Quy joins us to talk about their work. And we'll hear about lesser known historical figures who feature in Professor David Turner's new book 'Disability: A history of resistance'
We continue with our series meeting new Senedd members. This week it's the turn of Reform's Benjamin Hodge-McKenna, one of their two MSs for Afan Ogwr Rhondda.
The former Labour MP and Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister for the Middle East Dr Kim Howells discusses the chances of the on-going peace process in the Middle East delivering for both the Palestinian and Israeli people. Plaid Cymru's leader at Westminster, Liz Saville Roberts MP looks back at her party's conference - the last before next May's Senedd elections. Paris-based commentator Nabila Ramdani assesses the prospects of France's new PM - who is the same as the old one - bringing political stability to the Republic. And the the UK's Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Eleanor Lyons looks back at 10 years of the Modern Slavery Act
Neuroscientist Dr Emma Yhnell and Conservative Senedd candidate Adam Robinson review the papers.
Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy and physiotherapist Rachel Moses OBE discuss two years of conflict in Gaza. Children's Commissioner Rocio Cifuentes is asking all the parties to commit to five priorities to improve children's lives in Wales, Darren Millar MS is in Manchester for the Conservatives' UK Conference. Former head of the First Minister's office explains how important EU funding was to Wales and Professor Laura McAllister tells us why there's been such a rise in the number of podcasts on Welsh politics.
Colegau Cymru's Rachel Cable and the Vale of Glamorgan's Council Leader Lis Burnett review the papers.
Deputy First Minister Huw Irranca-Davies joins us from Labour's conference in Liverpool. Jane Frankland CEO of Knewstart discusses cyber security. Emma Pinchbeck, CEO of the Climate Change Committee explains what went well and what went badly after the last blast furnace closed in Port Talbot. Mark Serwotka joins us to tell us all about new left-leaning 'Your Party' in Wales and Sir Deian Hopkin remembers the 1968 Caerphilly by-election.
Tessa Marshall and Karl Davies review the papers.
After Jeremy Miles' shock announcement that he's standing down, we have guardian columnist, podcaster and newsletter writer Will Hayward mulling over Labour's situation in Wales. Former UN Ambassador Sir Emyr Jones Parry and BBC correspondent Wyre Davies recently returned from the Middle East discuss the latest in the Gaza-Israel war. After Jimmy Kimmel's show was cancelled in the US, journalist Cai Wilshaw discusses free speech in America. It's the Liberal Democrat's UK conference this week and Welsh leader Jane Dodds joins us fresh from Bournemouth. And Aled Eirug talks about his new biography: Dafydd Elis Thomas: Nation Builder.
The RCN's Helen Whyley and Plaid Cymru's Baroness Carmen Smith review the papers.
Journalist and author of the unauthorised biography of Peter Mandelson, Paul Routledge explains how the Ambassador's sacking was inevitable.Professor Natasha Lindstaedt from the department of government at Essex University discusses political violence.Delyth Evans, new chair of S4C is with us to say why the channel's next five years will be all about digital services.Owain Williams, would-be Senedd candidate muses over the Welsh element of Welsh Labour.Rhys Kaminski-Jones tells us all about his new book, Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain 1707-1819: True Britons and Celtic Empires
Professor Kate Thirlaway and Cllr Calum Davies review the papers
Vaughan Roderick looks back at highlights from Sunday Supplement over the past few months, including a row over rail funding, the future of Ukraine and Syria, the passing of Pope Francis, and the 'Great Bibles' going on display at the National Library of Wales.
Interviews with Ben Lake MP, Ukrainian journalist and refugee Kateryna Gorodnycha, Children's Commissioner Rocio Cifuentes, Syrian doctor Mohammad Alhadj Ali, Delyth Jewell MS and Lord Don Touhig, Professor Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones and the National Library's Timothy Cutts.
Columnist and author Steve Richards dissects Labour's terrible week, a year since getting their thumping commons majority. We hear from UK Med's field hospital lead in Gaza, Dr Clare Jefferys. Lord Hain questions proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Senior Lecturer in tourism management, Dr Linda Osti and Jim Jones from North Wales Tourism debate the value of a visitor levy due to be made law on Tuesday. And Labour minister, Torfaen MP, and Clement Attlee's biographer Nick Thomas-Symonds tells us the significance of the 1945 Labour landslide.
Baroness Wilcox and Dr Elin Jones join Vaughan Roderick to review the Sunday papers.
Labour leader and Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan joins us from Labour conference in Llandudno. Journalist Chloe Chaplin dissects Labour's turmoil on the welfare bill. Philosopher Dr Huw Williams from Cardiff University tells us why more thoughtful subjects like his are still important. After a year in the job, Ann Davies talks about the highs and the lows of being a brand new MP. Andrew Monaghan is with us to review his book, Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War.
Vale of Glamorgan conservative councillor Rhys Thomas and author and historian Norena Shopland review the papers.
After the US bombs nuclear facilities in Iran, Israeli political commentator Gideon Levy and Chair of the Ezri Centre for Iran and Gulf states research Dr Efrat Sopher, puts Trump's intervention into context. Author and historian Diana Preston explains Roosevelt's vision as the UN celebrates 80 years of its existence. Welsh Local Government Association and Rhondda Cynon Taf Council leader, Andrew Morgan and Dr Marlene Davies, expert in local government finance and Associate of the University of South Wales discuss a new partnership agreement between the Welsh government and local authorities. Timothy Cutts celebrates having two unique copies of the 1539 Great Bible at the National Library in Aberystwyth.
Bethan Darwin and William Powell review the papers.
Guests include First Minister Eluned Morgan; Adam Price MS, Chatham House director Bronwen Maddox; Prof Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones and Judith Mackrell. The paper reviewers are Baroness Ilora Finlay and Plaid Cymru councillor Steve Skivens.
Vaughan Roderick talks to Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake about rail funding, discusses the Spending Review with Baroness Debbie Wilcox and the Institute of Directors' Richard Selby and reflects on 50 years of Parliament on the radio with former Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans. Plus what does the Hamilton by-election mean for Scotland's parties, and Dai Havard discusses what Merthyr's radical political past tells us about its future.
Vaughan Roderick with political news, discussions and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers.
Guests include Nia Griffith MP; musician Peredur ap Gwynedd; Middle East historian Diana Darke and Middle East analyst Dr Laura James; US political watcher Spencer McKinney; author Cormac Moore. Paper reviews: Bethan Sayed and Andrew White.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Guests include Middle East correspondent Wyre Davies, Tonia Antoniazzi MP, Heledd Fychan MS, Dr Jenny Mathers from Aberystwyth University, crossbench peer and barrister Lord Alex Carlile of Berriew, author Rhian E Jones, Liberal Democrat campaigner Eluned Parrott and Wales Online's Political Editor Ruth Mosalski.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Guests include former BBC Middle East correspondent Jim Muir; former CBS news anchor and Democrat politician Sonny Dixon; Jennifer Ewing from Republicans Overseas UK; health economist Prof Marcus Longley; Jac Larner from Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre; Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson; newly retired BBC journalist Laurie Margolis; author and journalist Carole Burns and producer of the Hiraeth podcast Richard Martin.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Guests include Huw Irranca-Davies MS; Delyth Jewell MS; former Conservative special advisor Anthony Pickles; Observer columnist and former senior Labour advisor Sonia Sodha; Professor of American Politics Scott Lucas; Dr Carlos Solar who's a Senior Research Fellow in Latin American Security at the think tank RUSI; David Chadwick MP and Katie Dalton, director of Cymorth Cymru.
Guests include Hefin David MS; Director of Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre, Richard Wyn Jones; Labour MP for the Vale of Glamorgan, Kanishka Narayan; Plaid Cymru's Caerfyrrdin MP Ann Davies; Jennifer Ewing from Republicans Overseas; Prof Chris Carman from the University of Glasgow; Paris correspondent for The Times, David Chazan, Plaid Cymru MS Peredur Owen Griffiths and documentary film maker Inge Hanson.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Guests Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth, Labour's Huw Irranca Davies, Lynne Kelly who is the Chair of Haemophilia Wales and solicitor Des Collins, Donnacha Ó Beacháin, a Professor of Politics at Dublin City University, Associate Editor of Nation Cymru Martin Shipton, UCL lecturer Sam Blaxland, Labour MS Jenny Rathbone, and Claire Vaughan, Cinema Programme Manager at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff.
Guests include Conservative MP Jamie Wallis, Wales Green Party leader Anthony Slaughter, Conservative MS Darren Millar, Labour MP Beth Winter, steel expert Dr Carol Bell, the FT's Lucy Fisher, crossbench peer Lord Burns, Future Generations Commissioner Derek Walker and Eluned Parrott, who was the Liberal Democrats' AM for South Wales Central from 2011-2016, in what was then the Welsh Assembly.
Guests include Conservative MP Craig Williams, Labour MP Nia Griffith, director of the Wales Governance Centre Professor Richard Wyn Jones, Conservative commentator Tim Montgomerie, former Welsh Secretary, ex Labour MP and former member of the Assembly - Ron Davies, Aled Eirug -- a Senior Lecturer at Swansea University - who co-edited 'The Impact of Devolution in Wales Social Democracy with a Welsh Stripe', Plaid Cymru's leader in Westminster and the MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Liz Saville-Roberts, Dr Matt Wall, Head of the Department of Politics, Philosophy and International Relations at Swansea University, and George Carroll, Leader of the Conservative Group on the Vale of Glamorgan Council.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Guests include Unite Wales regional secretary Peter Hughes; Sam Rowlands MS; Politics Professor Sir John Curtice; Director of the Association of School and College Leaders in Wales Eithne Hughes; Kado Muir, Chair of Australia's National Native Title Council. Paper reviewers: Heledd Fychan MS and Mark Hinge.
Guests include: Prof of US and International politics Scott Lucas; Deputy Minister for Tourism Dawn Bowden MS; Chair of the Wales Tourism Alliance Suzy Davies; Guardian senior economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty; Monique Choudhuri of Women in Football; North Wales Chief Constable Amanda Blakeman; ecological statistician Dr Charles Paxton plus paper reviewers Clare Hudson and Bethany Handley.
Guests on the programme include economist Vicky Pryce, director of the UK Energy Research Centre Robert Gross, Dr Carlos Solar who's a senior research fellow in Latin American security at RUSI, Chris Bryant MP, UEFA Vice President Laura McAllister and Australian women's football journalist Isobel Cootes. Reviewing the papers are Chair of Coleg Cymraeg Aled Eirug and Monmouthshire councillor Catherine Fookes.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Guests include: First Minster Mark Drakeford; Fay Jones MP; the Western Mail's political editor-at-large, Martin Shipton; Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk; and royal historian Prof Anna Whitelock
Paul Martin sits in for Vaughan Roderick for this, the last programme of the year. Thanks to all our loyal listeners. Our first programme of 2023 will be on January 8 at the usual time 8am to 9am.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
A look ahead to COP27 with climate change minister Julie James and Amelia Womack, former deputy leader of the Green party. Plus economist Vicky Pryce on the latest on interest rates and warnings of a long recession ahead. Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds on the party leader Ed Davey's upcoming speech. Amid concerns over human rights in Qatar ahead of the World Cup, Tim Hartley discusses football as a force for good. Analysis on the US Mid-Term elections from Dr Jac Larner. The paper reviewers are Ruth Marks from the Wales Council for Voluntary Action and Joel James MS.
Elliw Gwawr sits in for Vaughan Roderick and reflects back on the Elizabethan age and ahead to the reign of King Charles.
Elliw Gwawr sits in for Vaughan Roderick and reflects back on the Elizabethan age and ahead to the reign of King Charles.
Elliw Gwawr sits in for Vaughan Roderick and reflects back on the Elizabethan age and ahead to the reign of King Charles.
Guests on the programme include Stephen Crabb MP, political historian Sam Blaxland, former civil servant and author Caroline Slocock, Jo Stevens MP, UCAC General Secretary Ioan Rhys Jones and Naz Shah MP. Reviewing the papers are Dr Carol Bell and Dr Emma Cavell.
Rhodri Lewis sits in for Vaughan Roderick. Guests include Wales social justice minister Jane Hutt; Lord Carlile of Berriew; Dr Simon Middleburgh, a Reader in nuclear materials at the Nuclear Futures Institute in Bangor University; Welsh Labour MS Mick Antoniw; Dr Lise Butler, a senior lecturer in Modern History at City University; Professor Sir Deian Hopkin, an historian, former vice chancellor and former President of the National Library of Wales; Russell Sandberg - he's a Professor in Law at Cardiff University; and Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas.
Felicity Evans sits in for Vaughan Roderick. Guests include Julie-Ann Haines who is Chief Executive Officer of the Principality Building Society and Linda Ellett who is the UK head of retail and leisure consumer markets at KPMG, John Leach is Assistant General Secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport workers union, Christian Wolmar is an award-winning writer and broadcaster specialising in transport and he's the author of a series of books on railway history, Channel 4's former political editor Elinor Goodman, Green Party peer and a former party leader Baroness Natalie Bennett, Dr Paul Hunneyball who is the assistant editor with the History of Parliament, Adrian Robson, leader of the Conservatives on Cardiff Council and Richard Thomas who is head of the department of media and communications at Swansea University
Felicity Evans is standing in for Vaughan Roderick.
Guests include Dr Sara Reis, deputy director and head of Research and Policy at the UK Women’s Budget Group; Helena Herklots, the older persons commissioner for Wales; economist and author Linda Yueh; Eddie Dempsey, the senior assistant general secretary for the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers; Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price; Shruti Kapila, professor of Indian history and global political thought at the University of Cambridge, and the author of Violent Fraternity Indian Political Thought in the Global Age; Dr Adeel Hussain, an associate professor of legal studies at New York University Abu Dhabi, his latest book Revenge, Politics and Blasphemy in Pakistan looks at the afterlives of the British colonial legal system in South Asia; Louise Magee, Welsh Labour's former general secretary and UK Labour senior adviser - now a campaigns and elections strategist; and Sue Revell leadership coach and podcast host.
Guests include Clwyd West Conservative MP David Jones, Anthony Pickles who is the co-author of the State of the Union newsletter and a former senior adviser to the Welsh Conservatives, and Adam Morris, who is a former head of media for the Scottish Conservatives and director of Shorthand PR, Conservative MS James Evans, Cardiff University lecturer in politics Dr Jonathan Kirkup, Dr Kim Howells who is a former UK Labour Government Minister, Dr Emma Yhnell - neuroscientist and Senior lecturer at Cardiff University and Tom Crick, who is a Professor of Digital Education and Policy, at Swansea University.
Mark Hutchings is sitting in for Vaughan Roderick.
Guests include Secretary of State for Wales Sir Robert Buckland, a former Leader of the Welsh Conservative Party Lord Bourne of Aberystwyth, general secretary of Wales TUC Shavanah Taj, Labour MS for Pontypridd Mick Antoniw, award-winning journalist, writer, broadcaster and a former BBC Sports Editor Mihir Bose, Plaid Cymru MS Rhys ab Owen, and Dean of Cardiff Metropolitan University's School of Sport and Health Sciences, Dr Katie Thirlaway.
Bethan Lewis is sitting in for Vaughan Roderick. Guests include the Conservative MS for Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Sam Kurtz, and Conservative MS, James Evans, who represents Brecon and Radnorshire, political commentator Steve Richards who is the author of the 'Prime Ministers reflections on leadership' and Tim Montgomerie who was formerly the Social Justice Advisor to Boris Johnson and the founder of Conservative Home, Labour's shadow spokesperson on Wales in the House of Lords Baroness Wilcox of Newport, Future Generations Commissioner for Wales Sophie Howe, palliative medicine consultant and clinical director at Velindre University NHS Trust Professor Mark Taubert and Leader of the Conservatives on the Vale of Glamorgan Council George Carroll.
Paul Martin is standing in for Vaughan Roderick this week. Guests include Brecon and Radnorshire Tory MP Fay Jones, Lichfield Conservative MP Michael Fabricant, Sian Jones, who was a former special advisor to Lord Hammond - she's now a political consultant at SEC Newgate - and Chris Wilkins who is a strategy and communications advisor but who was formerly Chief Speechwriter to ex Prime Minister Theresa May, the leader of Gwynedd Council Plaid Cymru's Dyfrig Siencyn, Rural Affairs minister in the Senedd - Labour MS Lesley Griffiths, the Western Mail's Martin Shipton and political commentator and feminist Helen Mary Jones.
Sarah Dickins is sitting in for Vaughan Roderick this week. Guests include: Conservative peer Lord Davies of Gower, Craig Williams, who is the Conservative MP for Montgomeryshire and a former aide to the ex Chancellor Rishi Sunak, shadow Secretary of State for Wales and Labour MP for Cardiff Central Jo Stevens, Huw Dixon who is a Professor of Economics and Head of the Economics Section at Cardiff Business School, Julie-Ann Haines, who is the CEO of the Principality Building Society, and Doug Jeffrey who is the group operations director of the transport company Owens Group, Dr Ben Gwalchmai, who is the founder of Labour for an Independent Wales and the Campaign for a National Poetry Library of Wales and Liberal Democrat peer Lord Mike German
Huw Thomas sits in for Vaughan Roderick this weekend. Guests include: Welsh Labour MS Huw Irranca-Davies, Conservative Home journalist and local government editor Harry Phibbs, Dr Christine Agius is an Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations in Australia, Rachel Evans is the Director of Countryside Alliance Wales, and Carwyn Jones is a former First Minister who now chairs the trustees of the climate-change charity ‘The Size of Wales', writer and broadcaster Dr Aled Eirug, Catherine Fookes is the Director of the Women's Equality Network Wales and a Labour councillor in Monmouthshire, and Canon Aled Edwards is the Chief Executive of Cytûn - churches together in Wales....
Guests include Welsh Conservative Chair Glyn Davies, Shadow Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens, former Welsh Liberal Democrat leader, Lord Mike German; former president of YouGov Peter Kellner, Dr Winnie King from the University of Bristol, and music critic and journalist Oliver Kemp. Reviewing the papers are radio producer Clare Hudson and the Labour Member of the Senedd for Newport East John Griffiths.
Guests include: Welsh Conservative MP David Jones, who is a member of the Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee, Plaid Cymru MP Hywel Williams, Mark Barry who is a Professor of Practice in Connectivity at Cardiff University, Lesley Riddoch is a journalist, broadcaster and columnist, Adam Morris, is a former head of media for the Scottish Conservatives and director of Shorthand PR, Catherine Nicholson is the European Affairs Editor for France 24 TV, Andrea Cleaver is the Chief Executive of the Welsh Refugee Council and Joel James is the Conservative MS for South Wales Central and the shadow minister for social partnership.
Guests: Director of the Welsh NHS Confederation Darren Hughes, Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats Jane Dodds and Richard John, leader of the Conservative group on Monmouthshire County Council, Dr Eurfyl ap Gwilym, Plaid Cymru's economic advisor and Kent Matthews, the Sir Julian Hodge Professor of Banking and Finance at Cardiff University, Sebastian Payne, the FT's Whitehall Editor and the presenter of Payne’s Politics podcast, and Kevin Maguire, the associate editor of the Daily Mirror and a columnist for the New Statesman, Shavanah Taj, the General Secretary of the Wales TUC, and Dr Jonathan Kirkup, a lecturer in politics at Cardiff University.
Guests include Lichfield Conservative MP Michael Fabricant, national secretary of the GMB union Andy Prendergast, Blaenau Gwent Labour MP and member of the Public Accounts Committee Nick Smith, Swansea University vice chancellor and policy lead for research and innovation on the Universities UK board, Professor Paul Boyle, historian, Victorianist and lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University Dr Lucinda Matthews-Jones, writer and broadcaster Mihir Bose and former international footballer and Professor of Public Policy and the Governance of Wales Laura McAllister, researcher and writer Lila Haines, and founder of a culture group with offices in Wales and Latin America, Glynn Pegler
Guests include leader of the Welsh Conservatives Andrew RT Davies, Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake, the deputy editor of the website Conservative Home - Henry Hill, the former president of YouGov Peter Kellner, Cardiff North Labour MP Anna McMorrin, the chief political correspondent on ABC's nightly current affairs programme Laura Tingle, the former communications director for ex Australian PM Julia Gillard - John McTernan, Wales Online Political Editor Ruth Mosalski and journalist and author Tim Hartley.
Guests include Policy and Research Officer for Disability Wales, Megan Thomas, head of the Federation of Small Businesses in Wales Ben Cottam, Conservative MP for Monmouth and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales David TC Davies, Labour peer and former Northern Ireland secretary Lord Paul Murphy, former Director of the Centre for Policy Studies, and author Tim Knox, The Spectator's diary editor James Heale, Sir John Curtice professor of politics at Strathclyde University, writer, journalist and contributing editor for Unherd David Patrikarakos, Tom Crick, who is a Professor of Digital and Policy at Swansea University, and Bridgend Labour MS Sarah Murphy.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Guests include the Labour leader of Cardiff City Council Huw Thomas, the chair of the Welsh Conservatives Glyn Davies and Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts. Martin Shipton of WalesOnline and George Parker of the Financial Times provide political analysis. And Dr Jenny Mathers of Aberystwyth University looks ahead to Victory Day in Russia. Reviewing the papers are the House of Lords' crossbencher Baroness Ilora Finlay and Jonathan Adams, architect of the Wales Millennium Centre
Guests include Senior Lecturer in Strategy and former military intelligence officer Frank Ledwidge, Welsh Labour MS Mick Antoniw, Wales Green Party leader Anthony Slaughter, Independent Council leader Mark Pritchard, former BBC Northern Ireland Political Editor and former Ireland Correspondent Mark Devenport, Emeritus Professor of United States Studies at University College London, Iwan Morgan, Dr Emma Yhnell - neuroscientist and Senior lecturer at Cardiff University - and Director of Policy and Communications at Chwarae Teg, Helen Antoniazzi.
Welsh Health Minister Vaughan Gething, journalist based in Hamburg Jenny Witt, travel writer Simon Calder, associate director at the Institute for Government Maddy Thirmont-Jack, Deputy Director of the Middle East North Africa Programme at the Royal United Institute of International Affairs Dr Sanam Vakil and Cardiff University's Dr Juliette Wood.
On the fifth of May we all have the chance to vote for the people we want to run our local council. Four separate elections are going on in the UK - each one with their own political context. But wherever you are it's this vote that decides who runs your local authority, and that means decisions on transport, schools, social services, waste and more. With that in mind, we've dedicated much of the programme to a live round table discussion with candidates from different parts of Wales.
Guests include lecturer in International Relations at Swansea University Dr Dennis R. Schmidt, Wales Office minister and Conservative MP David TC Davies, Liberal Democrat Spokesperson for Business & Industrial Strategy Lord Fox, political economist and economic justice campaigner Professor Richard Murphy, writer Owen Hatherley, Conservative MS Natasha Ashgar, and Dr Nick Parsons who has recently retired as a Reader in French at Cardiff University.
Guests include journalist in Ukraine, Kateryna Malofieieva, Mark Galeotti - an honorary professor at University College London - and the author of many books about Russia, crossbench peer Baroness Ilora Finlay of Llandaf, Professor Laura McAllister co chair of the Independent Commission for the Constitutional Future of Wales, Hannah Blythyn - Wales Deputy Minister for Social Partnership - former BBC political journalist Robert Orchard, Chair of the BMA's Welsh council and a practicing GP in Caerphilly Dr David Bailey, and former Welsh Labour MP and ex President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, Madeleine Moon.
Guests included the Editor-In-Chief for Euromaiden Press Alya Shandra, the Wilson E. Schmidt Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in the United States Sergey Radchenko, Director of CBI Wales Ian Price, Wales TUC Shavanah Taj, Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake, CEO of the British Nuclear Test Veterans Association Ceri McDade and geographer from the University of Swansea, Professor Mary Gagen.
Live to Ukraine, plus Welsh Labour MS Mick Antoniw, Conservative MP and a former UN Military Commander of British Forces in Bosnia Colonel Bob Stewart, Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies, Plaid Cymru leader in the Commons Liz Saville Roberts MP, the Chief Foreign Correspondent at the Sunday Times Christina Lamb, Welsh Liberal Democrat and author, Peter Black, and Associate Professor of Popular Music at the University of Oxford, Dr Sarah Hill
Guests include the managing editor for 'New Voice of Ukraine' and co-host of the podcast 'Ukraine Without Hope', Romeo Kokriatski, British barrister, former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation and crossbench peer Lord Carlile of Berriew, Shadow Foreign Minister and Labour MP for Cardiff South and Penarth Stephen Doughty, Deputy Political Editor of The Telegraph Lucy Fisher, barrister and former diplomat Labour peer Lord Donald Anderson, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, Conservative MS Mark Isherwood, and Owen Collins, who is a volunteer with the Cardiff branch of Amnesty and a member of Amnesty International's UK board, and archaeologist Dr Ray Howell.
Guests include Conservative MP and former Lord Chancellor Sir Robert Buckland, Plaid Cymru leader Adam Price, Catherine Belton, author of a bestselling book widely described as definitive on the Putin era 'Putin's People', associate Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge Dr Rory Finnin, Welsh Ukrainian woman Cyndy Litnianska and Plaid Cymru economic advisor Dr Eurfyl ap Gwilym.
Guests include the Wilson E. Schmidt Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in the United States Sergey Radchenko, Labour MP Stephen Kinnock, Wales Minister for Climate Change Julie James MS, former sub-postmaster Noel Thomas and ex BBC Cymru Wales journalist Sion Tecwyn, Liberal Democrat Peer Lord Mike German political analyst Valerie Livingston and Plaid Cymru MS and chair of the Senedd's Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee, Delyth Jewell.
Guests include the Welsh Government's minister for social justice Jane Hutt, award-winning journalist and pollster Peter Kellner, the FT's Whitehall Editor Sebastian Payne, the Children's Commissioner for Wales Sally Holland, Welsh Conservative shadow minister for climate change and MS for Aberconwy Janet Finch-Saunders, Co-Chair of the LGBT+ Parliamentary Labour Party and MP for Cardiff South and Penarth Stephen Doughty, Welsh Conservative shadow minister for rural affairs and the Welsh language and Carmarthen West and South Pembrokeshire Conservative MS Sam Kurtz, and Dr Richard Thomas, who is head of the department of media and communications at Swansea University.
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Guests include former Tory minister - now writer and broadcaster - Edwina Currie, Deputy Political Editor at the Telegraph Lucy Fisher, writer and security specialist Edward Lucas, Welsh Labour politician with close links to Ukraine Mick Antoniw, Professor in Nursing & Healthcare Mary Lynch, Director of the Bevan Foundation Dr Victoria Winckler, Economist and Business Consultant Vicky Pryce, Reader in Military history at the University of Aberystwyth and the author of 'The Postwar Legacy of Appeasement: British Foreign Policy since 1945' Dr R. Gerald Hughes, Baroness Wilcox of Newport and Tina Donnelly.
Guests include Theo Davies-Lewis, who writes for The Spectator and is chief political commentator with The National Wales, Harry Phibbs is local government editor of Conservative Home, Sir John Curtice is Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde, Vaughan Gething is minister for the economy and was formerly the Wales minister for health, Nazir Afzal is a former chief prosecutor, Isabel Hilton is the founder and senior advisor of China Dialogue, Hywel Williams is the Plaid Cymru MP for Arfon, and Tim Hartley is a writer, broadcaster, and author of 'The World At Your Feet - In Search of the Soul of Football'.