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- 5 days ago54 min
Plaid Cymru, Labour policies, Conservatives, October 7th and Intercity 125
This week Plaid Cymru party faithful met up in Llandudno and the Conservatives are making their way to Birmingham. Plaid's Westminster leader Liz Saville-Roberts and shadow Welsh Secretary Mims Davies join us from their respective conferences. Fresh from Labour conference, the FT's Lucy Fisher will look at all the policy announcements made by Prime Minister Andy Burnham this week. Three years on from the Hamas attacks that sparked a massive Israeli military offensive in Gaza, what is the situation now? Freelance middle east correspondent Jotam Confino joins us from Tel Aviv. And it's exactly 50 years since the first intercity 125 made its virgin journey from London to Cardiff. Emeritus Professor Stuart Cole was on the last journey of the famous train on the same track only last year.And in our series getting to know politicians better, we have Lord Mike German in the studio.
- 1 weeks ago55 min
Labour conference, Orange Order march, new Reform leader in Wales, Russia's Baltic presence, Victorian architecture
It's Labour's first UK conference since Andy Burnham became its leader and prime minister. It's also the first since its devastating losses in May's elections. Welsh Secretary Stephen Kinnock joins us from Liverpool. Members of the Orange Order were given last-minute permission by the high court to pass through a nationalist area of Portadown in County Armagh for the first time in nearly 30 years. Dr Thomas Leahy is a senior lecturer in British and Irish politics at Cardiff University and explains the significance of the decision. After a terrible week and Dan Thomas' resignation as their leader, Reform have appointed Helen Jenner to take his place. She tells us what her leadership will look like and Nick Tyrone, author of new book The Rise of Reform will discuss how Reform became the party it is. Lithuania has made evacuation plans in the event of a Russian attack. Estonia's foreign affairs committee chair, Marko Mihkelsen, outlines how the Baltic states are preparing for the possibility of war. And the Victorian Society has held its first AGM in Llandudno in twenty years. Dr Kathryn Ferry is a seaside resort historian, and we'll hear from her how Llandudno developed from a hamlet surrounded by marshland into a modern tourist attraction for the Victorians.Continuing with our series meeting politicians, this week we return to the Senedd to meet one of Plaid Cymru's three MSs in the Afan Ogwr Rhondda constituency, Elyn Stephens.
- 2 weeks ago55 min
Reform's week in Wales, independence, health, renters rights, defections
In the wake of Reform leader in Wales, Dan Thomas standing down after being arrested, UK deputy Leader Richard Tice says there's no reason to suspend him pending the investigation. Welsh, Scottish and northern Irish leaders met in Cardiff this week to say that Westminster's time is over. Conservative and unionist MS Andrew RT Davies and pro-independence Plaid Cymru MS Sera Evans set out their stall. NHS waiting times have crept up again. Health Minister Mabon ap Gwynfor explains what he plans to do about it. Renters rights were raised in First Minister's questions on Tuesday. The TUC's Joe Allen has looked at how many MSs are landlords and tells us all about it, whilst Katie Dalton outlines the challenges for renters in Wales. After Sarah Cooper-Lesadd's surprising defection from far right Reform to left leaning Plaid Cymru, the Express' David Williamson recalls the various defections seen in Cardiff Bay and Westminster over the years.And in our series meeting politicians of all colours, this week we have Lord Don Touhig in the studio.
- 3 weeks ago55 min
World safety after 9/11, the far right in Europe, constituency boundaries, childhood in Wales, Glyndwr's People
25 years after the deadly terror attacks on the World Trade Centre, is the world a safer place? Lord Peter Ricketts was working at the foreign office at the time. Far right party AfD won Sachsen-Anhalt's state election last weekend, whilst far right French party National Rally made a deal on migrants with Reform UK. Protests against migrants followed in Dover. Chief political editor at DW, Michaela Küfner and Cardiff University's Dr Marta Lorimer discuss the rise of the far right in Europe. Wales is not done with changing Senedd constituencies. Chief Executive of the Democracy and Boundary Commission Cymru, Shereen Williams joins us to encourage participation in their boundary review. Following terrible PISA results for Wales and a medical report highlighting the poor health of our children, Wales' first Future Generations Commissioner Sophie Howe and children's laureate Nicola Davies ponder what life is like for a child in Wales today. And September 16 is Owain Glyndwr day. To mark the occasion, author Paul Hughes is launching his book Glyndwr's People, all about those who served and lived around the so-called last true Prince of Wales.And continuing with our series meeting Welsh policitians, we have deputy speaker in the House of Lords, Baroness Ilora Finlay of Llandaff.
- Sep 6, 202655 min
Reform, Burnham, policing, TUC Cymru, life after No. 10
Fresh from Reform's annual conference in Birmingham, their chief whip in the Senedd, Llyr Powell reacts to all the weekend's events. Andy Burnham has done his first Prime Minister's Questions. Newport West and Islwyn MP Ruth Jones tells us how the parliamentary Labour Party thinks he's doing. Devolving policing has come back under discussion after the new PM said he's open to considering it. Professor Laura McAllister co-chaired the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales that looked at it, and Lauren McEvatt was a member. They discuss the pros and cons. Laura Doel has taken up the role of General Secretary for TUC Cymru. She explains what she hopes to achieve in the role. And Sir Keir Starmer has announced he is stepping down as an MP to concentrate on world affairs. Writer and historian Tom Egerton illustrates what former PMs do with their time after leaving office.And following the success of meeting new members of the Senedd we've decided to get to meet more politicians. This week, it's our chance to get to know the MP for mid and south Pembrokeshire, Henry Tufnell.
- Aug 30, 202654 min
Senedd election, drinking in Westminster, Greenland, House of Lords reform, Unnos, Muslim Wales and a new MS
A pre-recorded programme looking back at our best interviews of the year to date. Guests include: Professor Richard Wyn Jones; Lord Simon Hart of Tenby; research associate at the Arctic Institute, Fiona de Cuyper; Baroness Carmen Smith; Dr Juliette Wood; Dr Abdul-Azim Ahmed; and Zaynub Akbar MS.
- Aug 23, 202651 min
Reform, Welsh NHS, Hungarian election, Belfast riots, the Size of Wales and a new MS
A pre-recorded programme looking back at our best interviews of the year to date. Guests include Reform's Jason O'Connell; commissioner with the health think tank The Bevan Commission, Nygaire Bevan; Columbia Journalism Review's Ivan Nagy; Professor of Anthropology at Queen's University Belfast, Dominic Bryan; deputy director of The Size of Wales, Barbara Davies-Quy; and Reform MS Sarah Cooper-Lesadd.
- Aug 2, 202655 min
A look back at the 2026 Senedd election and how it's been going so far in the Senedd
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.
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