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Singer Kamille on women in music, the importance of role models, and winning an Ivor
It’s a music hall of fame that includes Noel Gallagher, Pulp, U2 and Queen.
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How modern was King Charles’ coronation?
We spoke to historian Dan Snow and the Lord-Lieutenant of Bristol, Peaches Golding, who was in the Abbey for the ceremony.
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Coronation: Britain at its ‘very best’, says modern history professor
We spoke to Chandrika Kaul, professor of modern history at the University of St Andrews.
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Rishi Sunak’s maths plan is ‘what the modern economy needs’, says education minister
We spoke to schools minister Nick Gibb and asked him how the government would hire the maths teachers it needs to deliver its new vision.
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‘Heartbreaking, shocking intolerable’: charity director says government ‘needs to fix’ unregulated children’s care accommodation
We’re joined from Leeds by Carolyne Willow, director of children’s rights charity Article 39, and from Westminster by former Children’s Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield.
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Calls for urgent action over unregulated accommodation for vulnerable care leavers
“I don’t want another family going through what we’ve been through”: a tragic plea from the aunt of a teenager stabbed to death while in care.
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Dry Cleaning band on tortoises, Meghan Markle and the chaos of modern life
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.
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Department of Health forced to scrap how it sources medical gloves for NHS after supplier accused of modern slavery
The Department of Health has been forced to scrap the way it sources medical gloves for the NHS – after its buyers paid millions to a supplier accused of modern slavery. It follows a landmark legal case which challenged the government’s decision to include the Malaysian glove manufacturer Supermax as an approved NHS supplier, despite…
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Stranger Things star Matthew Modine on the pressure of social media and the climate emergency
He’s already a movie star with a blockbuster back catalogue, but in recent years, Matthew Modine has reached a new generation of viewers playing an evil anti-hero in the cult Netflix series Stranger Things.
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70 per cent of UK homes breathing ‘unsafe’ air, new modelling suggests
Exclusive new modelling, seen by this programme, suggests that 70 per cent of UK households are in areas that breach three World Health Organisation guidelines on dangerous air pollutants, and 97% breach at least one guideline.
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‘The way forward is moderation’, says MP from Macron’s En Marche party
The remaining two candidates in France’s presidential race, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, launched their run-off campaigns today.
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Pedro Almodovar on the Spanish Civil War’s ‘disappeared’
The director Pedro Almodóvar made his name decades ago for daring, jubilant movies that caught on film the heady freedoms of the post-Franco era in Spain.
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Did the Covid models get it wrong?
Newspaper headlines were full of fears about millions of Covid cases a day but that did not happen – so what’s going on?
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Man gets genetically modified pig heart in world-first transplant
Surgeons in America have transplanted the heart of a pig into a human patient.
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India farmers: Modi U-turn on reforms which sparked major protests
After a year of protests and often violent unrest, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has suddenly announced he’s repealing three controversial farm laws.
