What Do We Do About Young Men and Porn? (Your Radical Questions with Jordan Stephens)
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Musician and campaigner Jordan Stephens answers your questions about porn and masculinity. One half ...
Porn and Masculinity: How to Teach Kids about Sex and Relationships (Jordan Stephens)
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How is online porn affecting sex and relationships? In this episode, musician and campaigner Jordan ...
Will Conservation Become More Mainstream? (Your Radical Questions with Chris Packham)
01 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Environmentalist and TV presenter Chris Packham answers your questions about wildlife conservation, ...
A War on Climate Change: Are Environmental Activists Losing The Fight? (Chris Packham)
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to confront climate change? Amol speaks to broadcaster and campaigner Chris Packha...
How Good Is Vertical Farming? (Your Radical Questions with James Rebanks)
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Farmer and author James Rebanks is our first guest to answer your questions. He tackles everything f...
Beyond Ultra-Processed Foods: Can Farmers Fix Our Health and the Planet? (James Rebanks)
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible to produce enough healthy food to feed the nation whilst also restoring nature? The f...
Digital Dominance: How to Limit the Power of Big Tech (Sir Nick Clegg)
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How should we balance innovation, power and accountability in the digital age? This week, Amol speak...
Irrational Humans: How Our Behaviour Shapes the Economy (Professor Richard Thaler)
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do human choices, biases, and behaviours shape our economy? This week Amol speaks to Nobel Prize...
A New Generational Divide: Living with(out) the Bank of Mum and Dad (Dr Eliza Filby)
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can Millennials, Gen Zs and Gen As thrive in a world where so much success depends on having acc...
ChatGPT and Google: The Tech Billionaire Taking On AI Companies (Matthew Prince)
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally changing the internet. But Matthew Prince, CEO of cybersecu...
A Fatal Punch: Why I Met the Parents of the Man I Killed (Jacob Dunne)
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whilst on a night out in the summer of 2011, Jacob Dunne made a split second decision to throw a pun...
Climate Migration: Confronting the Reality of Global Warming (Gaia Vince)
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
As extreme weather forces people from their homes, the journalist and author Gaia Vince makes the po...
British Identity: How Schools Can Improve Multiculturalism (Katharine Birbalsingh)
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh thinks multiculturalism in Britain has led to an excessive focus o...
The Weaponisation of Science: How to Avoid a Global Catastrophe (Professor Carlo Rovelli)
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Physicist Carlo Rovelli thinks we need natural intelligence and not artificial intelligence in an ag...
Life After Vogue: Why I Want To Reinvent Fashion Magazines (Edward Enninful)
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Edward Enninful thinks fashion risks going backwards on diversity, which is why he’s launched a ne...
Identity Politics: Why the Left Needs to Stop Fighting Culture Wars (Ash Sarkar)
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There are some new (and old) faces on the left of British politics hoping to challenge Keir Starmer’...
Artificial Intelligence: An AI Boss Warns About The Risks (Dario Amodei)
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence is arguably the single biggest force shaping our world today. Dario Amodei,...
Jordan Schwarzenberger Part Two: A Radical Religious Conversion
29 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Could finding religion allow Gen Z to better find their place in the world? That is the assessment m...
YouTube, Insta and TikTok: A Guide to Growing Your Social Media Following (Jordan Schwarzenberger - part one)
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
With audiences increasingly turning to echo-chambers on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube for their ente...
Homelessness and the Housing Crisis: How To End Rough Sleeping (Sabrina Cohen-Hatton)
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Homelessness is on the rise in Britian with record numbers of people living in emergency accommodati...
Fake News: How We Can Save Ourselves From Disinformation (Eliot Higgins)
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Conspiracy theories have flooded the internet in recent years and a growing number of people are avo...
Books v Screens: Why Every School Needs a Library (Katherine Rundell)
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Only one in three children in the UK enjoy reading in their spare time – the lowest rate recorded ...
Britain’s New Right: Could Reform Replace The Tories? (Dr James Orr)
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ever since Labour won a landslide victory at the general election, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party ...
Robert Macfarlane: Rivers Are Dying So Give Them Rights
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Serious pollution incidents by water companies in England rose by 60% last year, but the best-sellin...
Grey Britain: Do We Need To Have More Children? (Dr Paul Morland)
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson recently warned that Britain’s declining birth rate cou...
From Trump to Corbyn: How Social Media Shapes Politics (Billy Bragg)
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The singer, songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg thinks there’s a crisis of accountabilit...
Law and Order: How to Fix Britain's Courts (Lady Hale)
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is there a better way to handle divorce and family separation in the courts? Lady Hale thinks there ...
Knife Crime: Can Education Save Lives? (Steve Chalke)
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
More children are being convicted of crime and our prisons are nearly at capacity. But Steve Chalke ...
The Future of War: How Should the West Respond to its Enemies? (Sir Niall Ferguson)
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Leading historian Professor Sir Niall Ferguson explains how patterns from the past can help us under...
AI and Sexism: The Fight Against Misogyny Online (Laura Bates)
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Feminist campaigner Laura Bates has fought for women's safety for over a decade. But now her battle ...
Introducing... Radical with Amol Rajan
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Conversations about tomorrow, from Today.Every week Amol Rajan talks to radicals, pioneers and innov...
Populism, conspiracies and... Doctor Who
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The creator of The Thick of It and Veep discusses the rise of populism and the evolution of politica...
Is your mobile phone the best or worst friend you’ve ever had?
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over half term this week Radio 4’s Today is conducting an exciting experiment: asking teenagers to...
Gary Lineker, the BBC and celebrity influencers
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s the end of an era for Match of the Day – with Gary Lineker hosting for the final time after...
Eurovision: Europe’s biggest election
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why does Eurovision find itself at the centre of political controversy when it’s supposed to be no...
Joe Biden, VE Day and the politics of nostalgia
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the 80th anniversary of VE Day, Amol and Nick discuss what President Biden told Nick in his first...
North Korea fights for Russia
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Jong Un has confirmed for the first time that North Korean troops have been fighting in Russia a...
Is Putin playing Trump on Ukraine?
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has once again criticised Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and is putting pressur...
Is Trump on a collision course with China?
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tensions between Washington and Beijing threaten the global economy, but could it escalate into a mo...
Trump’s Tariff U-turn
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The president has paused the introduction of higher tariffs on goods from most countries, but contin...
Guilty! Marine Le Pen and the future of Europe’s populist right
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Marine Le Pen has been convicted of embezzling EU funds, potentially ruining her plans to run for th...
JD Vance: does Trump’s VP really hate Europe?
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Messages accidentally sent to a journalist by senior members of the Trump administration reveal info...
Bonus: Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty on Adolescence and male rage
21 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Adolescence has sparked fresh discussion about the impact social media and misogynistic influencers ...
Adolescence and the Crisis of Masculinity
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
A series about a teenage boy who is accused of murdering a girl from his school was the most watched...
Is Starmer finally getting to grips with being PM?
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Voters seem to be giving Keir Starmer a bit of credit for the role he has been playing on the world ...
What's different about Trump 2.0?
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the first six weeks of his second term Donald Trump has rewritten US foreign policy, fractured th...
What will Starmer’s defence spending buy from Trump?
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Keir Starmer’s announcement that he is increasing defence spending to 2.5% of GDP has defence ...
Ukraine or Russia: Whose Side Is Trump On?
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Donald Trump has accused Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky of being a “dictator” and doin...
What’s up with Gen Z?
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
New research has found that young people seem to be disillusioned with life in Britain, so Amol (Mil...
How To Deal With Trump (and the EU)
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The prime minister has rejected the idea that Britain will have to choose between Brussels and Washi...
Interview: Bill Gates talks to Amol
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From his childhood in Seattle to the current state of the world and the alliance between President T...
Rachel Reeves in ‘Bring It On Mode’
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Chancellor has backed the expansion of Heathrow and picked a fight with bats in her pursuit of e...
Trump and the Era of the Deal
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick reports from Jerusalem on the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas and Amol is joined by the...
Bonus Q&A: Trump returns to the White House
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States he immediately set about ...
Going for Growth: Rachel Reeves v the markets
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chancellor Rachel Reeves says she will go ‘further and faster’ in the search for economic growth...
Bonus: The BBC’s Russia Editor on Life in Moscow
13 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After listener Margaret got in touch asking about Steve Rosenberg’s life in Moscow as the BBC’s ...
Musk, Zuckerberg and Free Speech
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The billionaire owner of X has made misleading claims about Keir Starmer’s handling of the groomin...
2025 Lookahead
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amol and Nick with their take on what to expect in 2025. From a year of protest in the UK to what Do...
Bonus: Dame Laura Kenny guest edits Today
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dame Laura Kenny is Team GB's most decorated female Olympian. She used her guest edit of Today to as...
Bonus: Baroness Floella Benjamin guest edits Today
30 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The latest Today Christmas guest editor is the TV presenter, author and Liberal Democrat peer Floell...
Bonus: Sir Sajid Javid guest edits Today
27 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Former Conservative Chancellor Sir Sajid Javid is Today's latest Christmas guest editor.Sir Sajid's ...
Bonus: Dwayne Fields guest edits Today
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
UK Chief Scout Dwayne Fields is the Today programme's Boxing Day guest editor.Dwayne grew up on an i...
Bonus: Frank Cottrell-Boyce edits Today
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the UK Children's Laureate, is Today's first guest editor this Christmas. His ...
News Review of the Year 2024
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson are joined by Today programme colleague Justin Webb to discuss a bumper...
Interview: Kemi Badenoch talks to Amol
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A few weeks into her new job, Amol sits down with the Conservative Party leader for a wide-ranging i...
Political Turmoil in France and Germany
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
French prime minister Michel Barnier was forced to resign when his government collapsed in the wake ...
Nigel Farage, Reform and the Future of British Politics
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Nigel Farage accepted the Spectator’s Newcomer of the Year Award, he suggested that his Refor...
Keir Starmer's Reset
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After a bumpy first few months in power Keir Starmer is giving a speech to outline his milestones fo...
Esther Rantzen on the Assisted Dying Debate
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Dame Esther Rantzen told Amol and Nick that she had joined the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland s...
Interview: Frank Cottrell-Boyce talks about being a Today Christmas guest editor
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Each year the Today programme gives guest editors the chance to explore the issues that matter to th...
Blair and Brown pay tribute to John Prescott
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode two former Labour prime ministers, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, reflect on t...
Can you smash the gangs to stop the boats?
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Keir Starmer has said Labour will “smash the gangs” to stop the small boats carrying migrants ac...
Special report: Europe’s frontline against illegal migration
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nick joins Amol from the border between Bulgaria and Turkey, which is also the border between the EU...
Rural Revolt
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ahead of a planned protest by farmers who are angry about the Budget, Amol and Nick talk to farmer a...
US Election Q&A
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus live episode Amol and Nick are joined by fellow Today presenter Justin Webb who is in ...
Trump 2.0
06 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we look forward and discuss what a second Trump presidency could mean for the world ...
Analysis: A Budget for the history books
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How will the first Budget by a female chancellor and the first from a Labour government since 2010 b...
Interview: Rachel Reeves talks to Nick about the Budget
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode we bring you Nick’s full interview with the Chancellor after she delivered the fir...
Bonus Q&A: Swearing, spin and social media
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode, Nick and Amol answer more of your questions. How much power does a political ...
Interview: Kate Bush talks to Today
25 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this exclusive interview Kate Bush talks to Today presenter Emma Barnett about a new short film s...
Musk goes all-in for Trump
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The billionaire boss of X, Tesla and SpaceX is backing Donald Trump in the US election, so what are ...
Michael Gove on right-wing politics, the Tories and Trump v Harris
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After two decades in politics, including 10 cabinet positions under four prime ministers, Michael Go...
Is Labour working?
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week marks 100 days of Keir Starmer’s government. But the new Prime Minister has already face...
Iran, Israel and the Middle East crisis explained
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the week that Israel invaded Lebanon and Iran attacked Israel with missiles, Nick and Amol take a...
Ruby Wax talks to Amol
28 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ruby Wax began her career as a classically trained actor. She’s also starred in sitcoms, made docu...
Keir Starmer’s interview - the analysis
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amol and Nick with their take on Keir Starmer’s first Today interview since becoming PM and behind...
The Keir Starmer interview
25 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this bonus episode, Nick talks to Keir Starmer after his first Labour conference speech as prime ...
Will the Lebanon blasts lead to an escalation in the Middle East?
18 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah have exploded across Lebanon killing several people and ...
Bonus Q&A – BBC jargon, who makes Today and covering the US election
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do independent MPs work together to hold the government to account? What do the producers behind...
Doom, Gloom and the NHS
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As Lord Darzi’s report on the state of the NHS is released, Nick and Amol take a look at what need...
Will the victims of Grenfell ever get justice?
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A scathing report from the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire has concluded that all 72 dea...
Starmer’s ‘black holes’: What will fill them?
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Things will get worse before they get better.” That was the gloomy warning given by Keir Starme...
Summer special – celebrity Q&A
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What tips would you give a government minister ahead of a Today programme interview? What was the be...
Summer special: Is journalism in crisis?
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amol and Nick use their decades of experience as journalists to discuss the future of news in this s...
Social media and the riots: Musk, misinformation and moral responsibility.
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk has repeatedly attacked Sir Keir Starmer on his platform ‘X’ this week over the handli...
Bonus episode - Frank Skinner opens up to Amol
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every week on The Today Podcast Amol and Nick share something significant that’s happened to them ...
How do we turbo-charge Britain’s economy?
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner have been championing growth this w...
Bonus Q&A: Young MPs, podcast impartiality and the state of political journalism
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Amol and Nick take on more questions from listeners – such as whether having younger MPs will lead...
Mary Beard on power, succession and rebellions
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Keir Starmer dealt with a Labour rebellion on the two-child benefit cap that saw the whip ...
Biden quits - but can Kamala beat Trump?
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Biden is out and has endorsed his vice president. But will Kamala Harris win the Democratic nomi...