World at One

Mon-Thurs: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. Fri: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell.

Mon-Thurs: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. Fri: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell.

Mon-Thurs: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. Fri: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell.

In an exclusive interview for Radio 4's World at One, Sir Paul McCartney tells Sarah Montague how his 'Meat Free Monday' campaign came about, shares his thoughts on young climate change activists, and his unreleased record of Christmas carols, made just for his family. He also talks about appearing at Glastonbury in 2020.(Photo: Sir Paul[...]

Mon-Thurs: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Sarah Montague. Fri: Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell.

The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn talks to Martha Kearney about the crisis in Yemen and his party's approach to Brexit.(Photo: Jeremy Corbyn. Credit: BBC)

In a series of pieces, Manveen Rana has been investigating the relationship between political power in South Africa, a London-based PR firm, and one of the country's richest families. As the President faces a vote of no confidence, what links Jacob Zuma, the Gupta Brothers and Bell Pottinger Public Relations? And, with anger at corruption[...]

Until recently, South Africa was hailed as one of the so-called BRICS - the developing economies, growing at such a rate of knots, they were soon to join the economic premier league. Not anymore. Next week, President Jacob Zuma faces a vote of no confidence, fuelled by accusations of financial corruption on a gargantuan scale.[...]

It is 23 years since the birth of South Africa's Rainbow Nation and it stands at a watershed. Its President, Jacob Zuma, is facing a vote of no confidence in parliament next week, which could see him kicked out of office in a country increasingly angry at his conspicuous enrichment, while the poorest get poorer.At[...]

The PR firm Bell Pottinger has often courted controversy with its choice of clients; they represented the Paralympian Oscar Pistorius after he was charged with murder, Asma al-Assad the Syrian first lady, and the Pinochet Foundation, whilst the former Chilean dictator was being detained in Britain. But the latest crisis the company faces could be[...]

Despite decades of research, 99% of clinical trials on new drugs for Alzheimer's disease have failed, meaning there is still no cure. But scientists believe it is not the drugs which do not work, it is the trials.To test the theory, work is about to begin on the world's biggest and most in-depth study to[...]

Sir John Major has said he is "wary" and "dubious" about Theresa May striking a deal with the DUP to give her government a majority. The former Conservative prime minister, who was one of the architects of the peace process in Northern Ireland, told the World at One the peace process in Northern Ireland was[...]

With polling day less than a week away, heated arguments are bound to be happening in homes around the country. Our election family are used to that. They are the Groves and are from Rowley Regis, near Dudley in the Midlands, and their cousins, the Stevens live nearby.In the third episode of her series, our[...]

As a foreign correspondent Hugh Sykes usually reports from abroad, from Iraq, Turkey, Germany, Pakistan. But ahead of the general election on June 8th, he was given an interesting assignment - to visit three former industrial areas in the UK, to find out how they are changing and what undercurrents may be at play in[...]

John Sutherland was a high flier who joined the police in the early 1980s. At the height of his career he was appointed borough commander in Southwark in London, with its share of murders and violence. He was also a trained hostage negotiator. In 2013 he realised he could not cope anymore and has now[...]

Over the coming weeks our reporter Becky Milligan will be talking to The World at One family from the Midlands about the issues affecting them which have been raised in the general election campaign.Some families vote the same way, this family doesn't.In this second report Becky meets Imogen's boyfriend Kierten, who like her is a[...]

Over the coming weeks our reporter Becky Milligan will be talking to The World at One family from the Midlands about the issues affecting them which have been raised in the general election campaign.Some families vote the same way, this family doesn't.In our first report Becky meets some of them in a local pub.

It is 50 years since the law that decriminalised homosexuality was passed. John Browne, who was the chief executive of the energy company BP between 1995 and 2007, kept his sexuality secret for the first 50 years of his life. After being outed by the Daily Mail in 2007 he became the first person, leading[...]

It's been 50 years since the Sexual Offences Act 1967 was passed in England and Wales. The act was to amend the law and decriminalise homosexual acts in private between two men. In a time where public opinion of homosexuality was viewed negatively and MP's "were afraid of voting it in parliament for fear it[...]

To mark 50 years since the Sexual Offences Act in 1967 decriminalised private homosexual acts, Becky Milligan spoke to George Montague.Like many homosexual men of his generation, George got married, had children and kept his gay relationships secret. In 1974 he was convicted of gross indecency with a man - the law was repealed in[...]

Time to Change, a campaign run by the mental health group Mind, have published a survey which found that half young men in the UK would not feel comfortable speaking to their father about their mental health. When asked why, more than a third said it was because their fathers do not talk about their[...]

Michael Gove gives his first interview on radio or television since his failed bid for the Tory leadership.He tells Martha Kearney about the mistakes he made in the days following the EU referendum, his thoughts on the government's education policy, his new review into preventing children in care from ending up in the criminal justice[...]