Sunday Supplement - podcast cover

Sunday Supplement

BBC Radio Wales•www.bbc.co.uk
Government
News

Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round-up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.

Follow on
Metacast
Apple Podcasts
Spotify
RSS
YouTube
Overcast
Pocket Casts
Episodes.fm
Download Metacast podcast app
Podcasts are better in Metacast mobile app
Don't just listen to podcasts. Learn from them with transcripts, summaries, and chapters for every episode. Skim, search, and bookmark insights. Learn more

Episodes

Labour's bad week, Gaza, what makes a terrorist group, tourism tax and 80 years since Attlee's landslide

Columnist and author Steve Richards dissects Labour's terrible week, a year since getting their thumping commons majority. We hear from UK Med's field hospital lead in Gaza, Dr Clare Jefferys. Lord Hain questions proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Senior Lecturer in tourism management, Dr Linda Osti and Jim Jones from North Wales Tourism debate the value of a visitor levy due to be made law on Tuesday. And Labour minister, Torfaen MP, and Clement Attlee's biographer Nick Thomas-S...

Jul 06, 2025•54 min

Labour conference and welfare woes one year since the election, university cuts and Blitzkrieg

Labour leader and Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan joins us from Labour conference in Llandudno. Journalist Chloe Chaplin dissects Labour's turmoil on the welfare bill. Philosopher Dr Huw Williams from Cardiff University tells us why more thoughtful subjects like his are still important. After a year in the job, Ann Davies talks about the highs and the lows of being a brand new MP. Andrew Monaghan is with us to review his book, Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War. Vale of Glamorgan conservat...

Jun 29, 2025•55 min

Iran nuclear facilities bombed, the UN AT 80, council partnerships and the 1539 Great Bible of Henry VIII and Cromwell

After the US bombs nuclear facilities in Iran, Israeli political commentator Gideon Levy and Chair of the Ezri Centre for Iran and Gulf states research Dr Efrat Sopher, puts Trump's intervention into context. Author and historian Diana Preston explains Roosevelt's vision as the UN celebrates 80 years of its existence. Welsh Local Government Association and Rhondda Cynon Taf Council leader, Andrew Morgan and Dr Marlene Davies, expert in local government finance and Associate of the University of ...

Jun 22, 2025•55 min
For the best experience, listen in Metacast app for iOS or Android
Open in Metacast