Broadcasting House - podcast cover

Broadcasting House

BBC Radio 4www.bbc.co.uk

The Sunday morning magazine programme with a fresh approach to the news and discussion about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.

Episodes

08/06/2025

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell

Jun 08, 202551 min

Strategic Defence Review previewed

We analyse what's likely to be in the government's imminent defence review with the head of the RUSI think tank, and we hear about at the threats facing Europe and the UK with Poland's foreign minister Radek Sikorski. Plus, Björn Ulvaeus from Abba pays tribute to the band's sound engineer, who's died at the age of 80.

Jun 01, 202550 min

All aboard Great British Railways

South Western Railway becomes the first train company to be renationalised under Labour. Also, we visit the PM’s constituency and Labour MPs debate welfare cuts.

May 25, 202551 min

18/05/2025

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell

May 18, 202551 min

Putin's 'peace' play

We discuss the Russian president’s invitation to Ukraine for 'serious negotiations' next week, an intervention made hours after European leaders met in Kyiv to demand a ceasefire. Also, we speak to science minister Lord Vallance about how AI could revolutionise the health service.

May 11, 202552 min

Local Elections mean the Government must deliver

Labour’s Health Secretary says the local election results are disappointing and mean the Government must deliver. We hear one eyewitness account of the cyberattack at M&S. And BH kicks off the VE day commemorations by delving into the BBC archive.

May 04, 202551 min

27/04/2025

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell

Apr 27, 202550 min

Gordon Brown on the world economic crisis

Gordon Brown tells BH that the full effects of the world's economic shock are yet to be felt. He says immediate multinational cooperation is needed.

Apr 13, 202552 min

01/11/2020

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell

Nov 01, 20201 hr

25/10/2020

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell

Oct 25, 20201 hr

18/10/2020

Dating in the age of corona, Batman in Liverpool, a united Manchester and Brexit. With Dame Esther Rantzen, Val McDermid and Alistair Barrie on the paper review. [email protected]

Oct 18, 20201 hr

04/10/2020

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell

Oct 04, 202058 min

19/07/2020

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell

Jul 19, 20201 hr

22/03/2020

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell

Mar 22, 20201 hr

17/11/2019

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell

Nov 22, 20191 hr

13/10/2019

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell

Oct 25, 20191 hr 1 min

20/10/2019

Paddy O'Connell explains what the Prime Minister's letters to the EU mean. The Latvian foreign minister gives his take on how the EU will respond. Steve Rosenberg takes a tour of East Berlin with the last communist leader of the GDR, thirty years on from the fall of the Berlin wall. And the press review with Richard Quest of CNN, Sathnam Sanghera of The Times and the economist Ruth Lea.

Oct 25, 20191 hr 1 min

08/09/2019

Paddy O'Connell examines a difficult week for Boris Johnson and his biographer puts him in the psychiatrist's chair. The threat to native trees and a celebration of a 90 year old conductor's last concert at the Proms. Papers reviewed by Elinor Goodman, Matthew Wright and House of Commons Chaplain Rose Hudson-Wilkin.

Sep 23, 20191 hr

25/08/2019

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell

Sep 09, 20191 hr 3 min

18/08/2019

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell

Sep 09, 20191 hr 1 min

01/09/2019

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell

Sep 09, 20191 hr 2 min

16/06/2019

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell

Jun 16, 20191 hr 2 min

31/03/2019

Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.

Mar 31, 20191 hr 10 min
For the best experience, listen in Metacast app for iOS or Android
Open in Metacast