Matt Frei , Europe Editor and Presenter

We spoke to Julian Hendy, the founder of the Hundred Families charity, and Dr Colin King, a mental health survivor who’s become a practitioner himself.

We were joined from Moscow by Nina Khrushcheva – a professor of international relations based in New York.

We were joined by the Director of Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, Matthew Savill.

We spoke to the Israeli writer and activist Gershon Baskin who has in the past negotiated hostage deals between Israel and Hamas.

We speak to Alina Frolova, the former Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine, about the decision to send troops into Russia.

We spoke to His Majesty’s Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor, and started by asking whether an already stretched prison system can cope with an influx of convicted rioters.

We’re joined by Nick Emmerson – president of the Law Society of England and Wales. Some of the members are now under threat from the far-right.

Democracy is under attack across the western world – from external powers like Russia, China and Iran, and from inside: the rise of populism, disinformation and organised crime. 

We spoke to Marc Lotter from the America First Policy Institute. He was director of communications for Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign and served as Special Assistant to President Trump during his first year in office.

The political bombshells have been dropping so thick and fast here, it’s almost impossible to keep up.

We speak to pollster and political strategist Cornell Belcher.

He might be the oldest president in US history – but Joe Biden was once one of its youngest senators, when he began his political career more than half a century ago. 

We spoke to Susan Platt – who was Joe Biden’s former chief of staff in the senate.

America will go to the polls to choose the next President in just over a hundred days.

We’re joined by Mr Biden’s biographer Chris Whipple, author of The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden’s White House.