• I have terminal cancer but 'I'm as happy as ever’
    Jul 4 2024

    Former aid worker Simon Boas was told he had terminal throat cancer last year and only had months to live. He began writing about his feelings towards life and death in his local newspaper, the Jersey Evening Post. This inspired readers across the country.

    Now he has pulled his thoughts together into a book called A Beginner's Guide to Dying, which comes out in September. It will be a posthumous publication.

    Simon speaks to Emma Barnett on Radio 4's Today programme ahead of being moved to a hospice for his final days.

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    9 mins
  • Election 2024: Bolton West hustings
    Jun 25 2024

    Today listeners put their questions to would-be MPs in the Bolton West constituency.

    The hustings is chaired by Nick Robinson.

    Today held similar sessions in two other seats - Wells & Mendip Hills and Motherwell, Wishaw & Carluke.

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    21 mins
  • Julian Assange: Wife 'elated' with release
    Jun 25 2024

    Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has left the UK after agreeing a US plea deal that will see him plead guilty to criminal charges and go free.

    Speaking to Today's Mishal Husain, Stella Assange says her children have never seen their father outside of prison and she's "not used to talking about Julian free in the present tense".

    Listen to the Today programme on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds: 6-9am Monday-Friday; and 7-9am on Saturdays.

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    11 mins
  • Released Israeli hostage: I don't believe in peace
    Jun 19 2024

    On 7 October last year, Ada Sagi's life changed forever. The 75-year-old grandmother of six - who has spent most of her life working towards peace between Israelis and Palestinians - was having a morning coffee at home on the Nir Oz Kibbutz, on the border with Gaza, when suddenly several men working for Hamas burst into her home and forced her barefoot by gunpoint onto a motorbike and took her hostage, alongside scores of others.

    The Arabic and Hebrew teacher who still supports students through her work, was imprisoned for 53 days at an apartment in Khan Younis until she was freed as part of a deal between the Israeli Government and Hamas.

    In her first UK interview, Today's Emma Barnett speaks to Ada, six months on from her release. She shares the details of her ordeal; her thoughts about those who captured her, the global reaction and the actions of the Israeli government since last October. As a lifelong peace activist, right at the end of the conversation, she shares a stark view of the future as she sees it.

    But Ada Sagi began by speaking about hearing security alarms going off in the kibbutz on the morning of 7 October, alerting her and the other hundreds of other residents they were under attack and then about the moment, men armed with Kalashnikovs, entered her home.

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    22 mins
  • Election 2024: Wells and Mendip Hills hustings
    Jun 12 2024

    Today listeners in Somerset put their questions to would-be MPs in the Wells and Mendip Hills constituency.

    The hustings is chaired by Justin Webb.

    Similar sessions are to be held in two other seats adopted by Today for the election - Bolton West and Motherwell, Wishaw and Carluke.

    (Photo: The hustings session. Credit: Oscar Pearson/BBC

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    23 mins
  • Adrian Ramsay on Green Party manifesto
    Jun 12 2024

    Co-leader Adrian Ramsay speaks to Justin Webb on the Green Party's manifesto launch.

    They're promising to tax top earners more and spend the money on public services.

    The party is also dealing with a row about anti-Semitism among what the party calls 'a small number of candidates.'

    The Today programme will hear from all the major parties throughout the election campaign.

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    7 mins
  • The Today Debate: Is justice delayed, justice denied?
    Feb 13 2024

    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 crown courts in England and Wales and related problems in the system in Scotland and Northern Ireland, Today presenter Mishal Husain asks if justice delayed is justice denied?

    Joining Mishal on the Today debate panel are Claire Waxman, the Independent Victims' Commissioner for London; Charlie Taylor; His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons for England and Wales; Joanna Hardy-Susskind, a barrister at Red Lion Chambers; Lord Falconer, Labour Peer and former Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice and Sir Max Hill, who was the director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales until October last year.

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    37 mins
  • Theresa May: 'During PMQs my blood sugar went up'
    Jan 23 2024

    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 Jelly Babies when her blood sugar dropped during meetings.

    The former Prime Minister has now chaired a parliamentary inquiry into the life-threatening consequences of having both type 1 diabetes and an eating disorder.

    She speaks to Today's Justin Webb why a joined-up approach by the NHS is needed so that healthcare professionals are aware of the 'conflicting pressures' on people with type 1 and an eating disorder. She also discusses her experience while in government of managing her blood sugar levels.

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    12 mins