Rachel Eliza Griffiths' first novel 'Promise' is published a year after her husband, the author Sir Salman Rushdie, was nearly killed in a knife attack.

The novel is a story of hope and resistance set during the early phase of the US civil rights movement.

Today’s Mishal Husain interviewed Rachel Eliza Griffiths to explore the influence of her mother, who was born during the period in which the novel takes place.

Rachel also reflected on the trauma of the near-fatal attack on her husband and said they had both been “very, very grateful and appreciative for the compassion and kindness on an international level” which had been shown to them in its aftermath.

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The UK's hottest June on record caused unprecedented deaths of fish in rivers and disturbed insects and plants, environment groups have warned.

The BBC’s Climate Editor, Justin Rowlatt, was at Knowle Locks in Solihull looking at some of the effects of this heatwave on fisheries.

Today’s Mishal Husain spoke to John Ellis, the national fisheries manager at the Canal & River Trust. He explained that when it’s warmer fish need more oxygen, but as the temperatures rise water holds less of it.

Mishal also spoke to Emily Shuckburgh, the Director of Cambridge Zero, who emphasised the need for action on climate change.

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A long-awaited report into English and Welsh cricket finds that racism, sexism, and class bias are "widespread".

The chair of the report, Cindy Butts, spoke to Today's Nick Robinson about how the sport has 'institutional and structural discrimination'.

Martha Kearney put the report to the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, who accepted all the findings and promised action on equal pay for female cricketers.

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The Prince of Wales's charitable foundation is putting in £3m of start-up funding to help make homelessness "rare, brief and unrepeated".

Six locations across the UK will be used to test ideas to cut homelessness.

"Everyone should have a safe and secure home and be treated with dignity," says Prince William.

But Prince William will also face challenges about how someone with such wealth and extensive property holdings can make such calls over homelessness.

Mishal Husain was joined in the studio by Lord William Hague, who chairs the prince's Royal Foundation and the footballer Tyrone Mings, a supporter of the plan after experiencing homelessness as a child.

The Prime Minister has raised concerns over the price of weekly shopping bills for average consumers.

On Thursday Rishi Sunak said: ‘We are looking at the supermarkets, making sure they are behaving responsibly and fairly.’

Latest figures released on Wednesday showed that the inflation figure has remained much higher than expected, for the fourth month in a row. The Bank of England has raised interest rates for the 13th consecutive time – from 4.5% to 5% – to try to stop such rapid price rises.

Today’s Nick Robinson spoke to Andy Clarke, who is now Chairman of operational improvement company Newton Europe and to Kathleen Kerridge, anti-food poverty campaigner and Chair of the Lived Experience Panel at the Food Foundation.

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The Bank of England is expected to raise interest rates for a 13th consecutive time on Thursday as it tries to stop prices rising so quickly.

On Wednesday it was revealed that UK inflation had remained much higher than expected for the fourth month in a row and Karen Ward, a member of chancellor Jeremy Hunt's economic advisory council, told Today that the Bank had "been too hesitant" in its interest rate rises so far and called on it to "create a recession" to curb soaring prices.

Today’s Amol Rajan spoke to the Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, about what the governments immediate plans were to tackle inflation. Nick Robinson spoke to the Shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, about what approach a Labour government would take to slowing the rapid rise in prices.

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The UK's inflation rate stayed at 8.7% in May despite hopes of a fall. BBC Economics editor Faisal Islam joined Nick Robinson and Mishal Husain in the studio to breakdown the inflation figures.

Core inflation – which strips out energy and food costs - is at its highest level in the UK for more than 30 years, increasing the likelihood that the Bank of England will raise rates on Thursday.

The Office for National Statistics’ chief economist explained what’s behind the rise. Karen Ward, from JP Morgan Asset Management, told Mishal Husain there are signs that a wage-price spiral is emerging, which the Bank "has to nip in the bud".

On the 50th anniversary of the Women's Tennis Association, its founder Billie Jean King speaks to Today sports presenter Karthi Gnanasegaram.

The tennis champion discussed the voice of women in tennis at the time of the formation of the WTA and what the future holds for women in the sport.

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Planes and ships from the US and Canada are searching a remote area of the North Atlantic for a submersible that went missing during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic, more than 24 hours ago.

The US Coast Guard said last night that the sub could have around seventy hours of oxygen left, and that officials were doing everything they could to rescue those missing.

A pilot and four passengers - one of them the founder of Ocean Gate Stockton Rush - are on board the vessel, which can reach depths of 13-thousand feet.

Mishal heard from Dr Robert Blasiak an ocean researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre about the Titan submersible craft and from Simon Platts who journeyed in the craft while directing an episode of the BBC's 'Travel Show' last year.

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Sir Keir Starmer says it is 'inappropriate' for individuals in recent Partygate footage to be receiving honours.

Speaking from Edinburgh, the Labour leader said: "I think Rishi Sunak should have said no, but he didn't, he waved [Boris Johnson's honours list] through."

When asked if he would have a resignation honours list, Sir Keir said: " No... Tony Blair didn't have a resignation list, its very hard to justify."

He also spoke with Mishal Husain about Labour's new energy policy, their approach to wind farms and the future with oil and gas if elected to government.