UK Chief Scout Dwayne Fields is the Today programme's Boxing Day guest editor.

Dwayne grew up on an inner city estate in London and turned away - in his words - from a life of “weed, cocaine and guns”.

He speaks to Nick about his life and about the focus of his programme - volunteering.

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The Today Podcast is hosted by Amol Rajan and Nick Robinson who are both presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. Amol was the BBC’s media editor for six years and is the former editor of the Independent, he’s also the current presenter of University Challenge. Nick has presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s political editor for ten years before that and also previously worked as ITV’s political editor.