Litigants in Person 2010
My piece on Litigants in Person from 2010: highlights growing problem, Stephen Cobb QC warns of no "equality of arms" in domestic violence cases
6m Nov 09, 2018
6m
Chelsea Pensioners on remembrance
John Humphreys, veteran of Africa campaign and Arnhem, escaped from two POW camps, and Helen Andrews, ex-Bletchley Park, tell me their stories and talk of WW1, and remembrance.
5m Nov 08, 2018
5m
Postcards from the Trenches
From @BBCR4today this morning :  .Between 1915 and 1916 a young German artist, conscripted,  sent postcard sized paintings back home to his girlfriend:  scenes from the trenches. Not  barbed wire and corpses in the mud, but (mostly) more peaceful scenes. A unique set of @Pastpostcards....now published by @BloomsburyBooks Thanks to @CameronPercival of @BBCRadioDrama for reading Otto's messages
5m Nov 06, 2018
5m
Dorothy Bohm, 94
Interview from @bbcR4today 0820. Dorothy Bohm on trying to focus on the inspiring,not the upsetting .From a Jewish family, she escaped the Holocaust by coming to school in Britain, in June 1939. New exhibition of her pictures of children at V + A museum of childhood from this weekend.
4m Nov 01, 2018
4m
Planned change to law would put vulnerable adults "at risk" says law society
@sanchia7 piece with Mr and Mrs E: @Marthakearney interview with @ShereeGreen17 of @TheLawSociety
6m Oct 12, 2018
6m
Born into care : Today item this morning
Annie Bertram, whose baby was taken away just after birth plus Professor Karen Broadhurst of Lancaster University, lead researcher, new report "Born Into Care". FIndings include : dramatic rise in care proceedings involving children in first week of life. Significant variation, by region and especially by local authority.
6m Oct 10, 2018
6m
Toyota /Brexit : my piece from Saturday
Peter Tsouvallaris, convenor for Unite the Union - concerned that if the "good" at Burnaston are lost, they may never come back. The Managing Director of the Toyota plant told me "crashing out of the EU without a deal" would mean stops in his assembly line.
4m Oct 01, 2018
4m
Life Expectancy 2017
In May 2017 on @bbcr4today we looked at the reasons why life expectancy wasn't improving at the expected rate, with help from @bridgendtownCC - its oldest and youngest members - and @bbcmoreorless
6m Sep 25, 2018
6m
BOOKMARKS /TODAY
Piece about the invasion of @Bookmarks_books on @BBCR4today this morning at #0725 . Noel Halifax - describes the scene - David Gilchrist on support .
4m Aug 09, 2018
4m
Major Maastricht and Rees Mogg
My piece from Tuesday with Sir Roderic Lyne, on John Major's papers, released at the National Archives .
4m Jul 25, 2018
4m
Richard Ingrams on Denis Thatcher
Richard Ingrams, author of the "Dear Bill" letters, on the real life Denis Thatcher as revealed in Mrs Thatcher's private files made public  by her foundation at @ChuArchives . PIece broadcast 21/7/2018
4m Jul 25, 2018
4m
Dramatic variation in adoption rates
The Family Courts can barely cope with the volume of new care cases - brought by local authorities seeking to take children away from their families. It's a crisis - say both incoming and outgoing Presidents of the Family Division. Yet there is dramatic variation between local authorities, as illustrated by research by Professor Andy Bilson, who tracked two cohorts of children, using FOI. He fo...
6m Jun 14, 2018
6m
Down's Syndrome and Dementia
Feature on @BBCR4Today - earlier this month - on how people with Down's are more likely to get dementia, and to get it at younger age ... .. and how research may help. @DSAInfo photo competition winner here.
5m May 30, 2018
5m
Tackling exam stress - 2018
#Tapton school in Sheffield - senior teachers and students describe how they're dealing with stress. Tough year as many more exams than before . First broadcast 21 May 2018
4m May 30, 2018
4m
Grenfell - fire resistance - 30 may
Package from @bbcr4today on #Grenfell Inquiry, fire resistance and safety.
4m May 30, 2018
4m
British Veteran of Korean War
Colin Thackery, 88, Korean War veteran and Chelsea Pensioner, gives his view of the meeting between leaders of North and South Korea.
2m Apr 29, 2018
2m
Guiding A New Generation
piece on #Hackney meeting from @BBCR4today TX06042018 0730 "Guiding a New Generation"
3m Apr 06, 2018
3m
The economy and the tube
4m Apr 06, 2018
4m
Bill was a child migrant aged 9 -from North London to Australia
In 2010, Bill Malone travelled from his home in Australia to London, to hear Gordon Brown apologise for the child migrant policy that ruined his life. He'd been a bright pupil at St George's Enfield, but had been sent to Bindoon in Western Australia. His education was halted, he was repeatedly sexually abused. I took him back to his old London school, to meet some of the pupils. He told me then...
4m Mar 01, 2018
4m
How to Reboot Ebbsfleet Garden City
Michael Cassidy, chair of Ebbsfleet Development Corporation, on why the progress of the new Garden City has been slow, and how to "reboot" it.
7m Feb 09, 2018
7m
Brexit : Businesses struggle with uncertainty
4m Feb 05, 2018
4m
Last Man Hanged
6m Dec 18, 2017
6m
Children are "invisible" in Family Justice System
#VoiceoftheChild #FamilyLaw ~Munby #BBCR4Today
6m Oct 17, 2017
6m
BAME Audit TODAY
Package with residents of St Matthew's estate
3m Oct 12, 2017
3m
BAME Audit Tues 10 oct
3m Oct 12, 2017
3m
Dramatic rise in women who have successive children taken into care
@BBCR4today #careproceedings #LancasterUniversity
7m Oct 03, 2017
7m
BBC R4 Today piece on BVI Hurricane Disaster
#Irma #BVI #devastation #Radio4
3m Sep 08, 2017
3m
How to house the Grenfell families
#Grenfell #fire #rbkc #socialhousing
4m Jul 07, 2017
4m
Grenfell Tower Today
4m Jul 05, 2017
4m
#OfftheGrid 5 Flytipping
Flytipping the scourge of the countryside - suggested by several listeners of @BBCR4Today #GE17 @bbcR4Today
4m Jun 07, 2017
4m
#OffTheGrid 1 Waspi
WASPI campaign - women affected by equalisation of state pension age
5m Jun 07, 2017
5m
Off The Grid #1 WASPI
The Waspi campaign - women hit by equalisation of state pension age..
5m Jun 07, 2017
5m
Cost of the Election
#GE2017 #cost
3m May 22, 2017
3m
Secret Drug Trials on Children in Approved Schools
Investigation showing how Home Office supported secret drug trials on children in Approved Schools
5m Jan 06, 2017
5m
Tempus Novo
#leeds #prison #tempusnovo
4m Nov 25, 2016
4m
Pioneering family court has sustained impact
Sanchia Berg pkg and interview with DJ Crichton about #FDAC new research
8m Sep 26, 2016
8m
Three generations #Hull #Labour
#Labour voting #Hull family disagree about #EURef . They watched Farage/Cameron ... hear what happened #BBCR4Today
3m Jun 10, 2016
3m
Communists in the BBC?
Conservative MP urged Churchill to hunt for Communist infiltrators in public life - especially the BBC.
20s Jan 26, 2016
20s
Family Drug and Alcohol Court
7m Jan 12, 2016
7m
A solution to the housing crisis ?
#housing #affordable #richardrogers #pocketliving
5m Nov 28, 2015
5m
A solution to the housing crisis ?
#housing #sanchiaberg #R4today #richardrogers #pocketliving
5m Nov 28, 2015
5m
A solution to the housing crisis?
#housing #affordable #BBCR4today #pocketliving
5m Nov 28, 2015
5m
Character in schools: Kings Leadership Academy Warrington
#character #radio4 #bbcr4today
4m Nov 24, 2015
4m
Peter Donaldson : talking about reading the post-apocalypse scripts
#PeterDonaldson #Voice of Doom
17s Nov 03, 2015
17s
Peter Donaldson reading post nuclear strike broadcast
9s Nov 03, 2015
9s
Peter Donaldson : talking about reading the post-apocalypse scripts
17s Nov 03, 2015
17s
Sent to Australia as a child migrant at 9, Bill Malone returns to his English primary school
Audio feature from 2/2010 now timely again as V&A Exhibition opens
4m Oct 29, 2015
4m
Part of winning entry Legal Reporting Award
5m Oct 18, 2015
5m
COURT of Protection
My winning entry for @thebarcouncil Legal Reporting Award this year
8m Oct 18, 2015
8m
Happy Birthday ITV : my piece + Lord Grade
Audio from @BBCR4today #ITV60 #BBC
10m Sep 22, 2015
10m