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Sunday Supplement episodes

  • Does the farming debate need a reset? Life in Ukraine at war. Local Justice reform and an end of the political term report

    On the eve of the Royal Welsh Show, Llanelli MS Lee Waters raises concerns about the farming sector, calling for a reset in the farming debate. Kateryna Malefioieva is a journalist in Ukraine and describes life in a war-torn country. Liz Saville-Roberts MP questions proposals to merge the three existing magistrates benches of north Wales into a single entity. And Delyth Jewell MS, Kanishka Narayan MP, Cllr Stuart Keyte and Tom Giffard MS are with us for an end of term review of their parties' respective performances.

    Nick Corrigan and Liz Maher review the Sunday papers.

    56 min
  • Being the boss of Betsi Cadwaladr, small boats, crumbling infrastructure, jury-free trials and Plaid Cymru at 100

    Betsi Cadwaladr's chief executive, Carol Shillabeer, joins us from Bangor to talk about turning the health board around. Anne-Elizabeth Moutet in France explains how they might be changing the law there to allow police to intervene in the water to stop small boat crossings. Jenifer Baxter from Infrastructure Wales tells us why we don't just need more money to fix our crumbling infrastructure. Michael Mansfield KC highlights the perils of jury-free trials. And Professor Richard Wyn Jones and Lord Wigley celebrate 100 years of Plaid Cymru.

    Uzo Iwobi from Race Council Cymru and John Jewell from Cardiff Journalism School review the Sunday papers.

    55 min
  • Labour's bad week, Gaza, what makes a terrorist group, tourism tax and 80 years since Attlee's landslide

    Columnist and author Steve Richards dissects Labour's terrible week, a year since getting their thumping commons majority. We hear from UK Med's field hospital lead in Gaza, Dr Clare Jefferys. Lord Hain questions proscribing Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Senior Lecturer in tourism management, Dr Linda Osti and Jim Jones from North Wales Tourism debate the value of a visitor levy due to be made law on Tuesday. And Labour minister, Torfaen MP, and Clement Attlee's biographer Nick Thomas-Symonds tells us the significance of the 1945 Labour landslide.

    Baroness Wilcox and Dr Elin Jones join Vaughan Roderick to review the Sunday papers.

    55 min
  • Labour conference and welfare woes one year since the election, university cuts and Blitzkrieg

    Labour leader and Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan joins us from Labour conference in Llandudno. Journalist Chloe Chaplin dissects Labour's turmoil on the welfare bill. Philosopher Dr Huw Williams from Cardiff University tells us why more thoughtful subjects like his are still important. After a year in the job, Ann Davies talks about the highs and the lows of being a brand new MP. Andrew Monaghan is with us to review his book, Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War.

    Vale of Glamorgan conservative councillor Rhys Thomas and author and historian Norena Shopland review the papers.

    56 min
  • Iran nuclear facilities bombed, the UN AT 80, council partnerships and the 1539 Great Bible of Henry VIII and Cromwell

    After the US bombs nuclear facilities in Iran, Israeli political commentator Gideon Levy and Chair of the Ezri Centre for Iran and Gulf states research Dr Efrat Sopher, puts Trump's intervention into context. Author and historian Diana Preston explains Roosevelt's vision as the UN celebrates 80 years of its existence. Welsh Local Government Association and Rhondda Cynon Taf Council leader, Andrew Morgan and Dr Marlene Davies, expert in local government finance and Associate of the University of South Wales discuss a new partnership agreement between the Welsh government and local authorities. Timothy Cutts celebrates having two unique copies of the 1539 Great Bible at the National Library in Aberystwyth.

    Bethan Darwin and William Powell review the papers.

    56 min
  • Rail funding, Spending Review, and 50 years of Parliament on the radio

    Vaughan Roderick talks to Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake about rail funding, discusses the Spending Review with Baroness Debbie Wilcox and the Institute of Directors' Richard Selby and reflects on 50 years of Parliament on the radio with former Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans. Plus what does the Hamilton by-election mean for Scotland's parties, and Dai Havard discusses what Merthyr's radical political past tells us about its future.

    55 min
  • 01/06/2025

    Vaughan Roderick with political news, discussions and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers.

    56 min
  • 18/05/2025

    Vaughan Roderick with political news, discussions and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers.

    55 min

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