Culture

Writer Gary Younge joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy on Ways to Change the World to discuss significant events that have impacted the Black diaspora, his mother’s influence and what he can teach the next generation of journalists.

If you can’t get to the museum – the museum will come to you.

An old peoples’ hospital fighting for survival in a small Yorkshire town – against a backdrop of NHS cuts and staff shortages – the kind of issue that’s barely out of the headlines. 

It’s been described as a find of potentially massive significance.

In this episode of Ways to Change the World, Historian Peter Frankopan sits down with Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss how humans have impacted the world, the existential threat posed by nuclear war and global superpowers, and what happens “when the music stops”.

We spoke to Alastair Campbell, former director of communications to Tony Blair, who now hosts a podcast produced by Gary Lineker’s company, and Times columnist Matthew Syed, who himself hosts a BBC radio programme.

“We have never said that Gary should be an opinion free zone”, the BBC insisted this evening as they announced that Gary Lineker would not be presenting Match of the Day after his series of tweets criticising the government’s asylum policy and comparing their language to Germany in the 1930s.

They combine poetic melodies and the spoken word – with a wry commentary on the chaos of modern life. Dry Cleaning have taken inspiration from some surprising sources, including Meghan Markle, and missing tortoises.

In today’s episode of Ways to Change the World, Simon Le Bon sits down with Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss why the band doesn’t make political statements, the state of the music industry, and the secret to Duran Duran’s longevity. 

One of Britain’s most senior police figures has today been referred to the police watchdog over allegations he described “the bulk” of rape complaints as “regretful sex”, following an investigation by Channel 4 News.

It’s the incredible true story almost no one knows – the Dutch resistance heroes who defied the Nazis and saved thousands of Jews during World War II by forging documents. In a new documentary that will air this week on this Channel, actor and broadcaster Stephen Fry tells the remarkable tale of the largely forgotten…

In the past year, cultural institutions have been attacked here in the capital and across Ukraine. 

In today’s Ways to Change the World, Senegalese musician Baaba Maal sits down with Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss the power of music and why we are all politicians in our own way when it comes to helping the world. 

In this episode of Ways to Change the World, Comedian Cariad Lloyd sits down with Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss dying, death, grief, and what comes next.

In this episode, Jyoti Patel joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to talk about feeling othered, why her book is written in the voice of a young man, and how to ask someone the question, “where are you from?”