Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round-up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
Middle East, government finances, prisons, Rebecca Riots
Guests include Middle East correspondent Wyre Davies, Tonia Antoniazzi MP, Heledd Fychan MS, Dr Jenny Mathers from Aberystwyth University, crossbench peer and barrister Lord Alex Carlile of Berriew, author Rhian E Jones, Liberal Democrat campaigner Eluned Parrott and Wales Online's Political Editor Ruth Mosalski.
10/20/2024 • 54 minutes, 39 seconds
Wales NHS, Plaid conference and future of Welsh universities
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
10/13/2024 • 54 minutes, 49 seconds
October 7: one year on, elder rights, policy development in Plaid, and assisted dying
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
10/6/2024 • 54 minutes, 48 seconds
Middle East, Tory Conference, Harold Wilson, Prisons and Gaeilge
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
9/29/2024 • 58 minutes, 40 seconds
Labour conference, Lebanon, and Reform conference
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
9/22/2024 • 54 minutes, 14 seconds
First Minister, Lib Dem conference, Tory leadership and Wales's forgotten 'socialist symbol'
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
9/15/2024 • 55 minutes, 37 seconds
Holiday homes, winter fuel payments and Green Party conference
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
9/8/2024 • 54 minutes, 14 seconds
Tata, SNP, Tory leadership, music and politics
Guests include Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens, Plaid MS Luke Fletcher, the Independent's Chief Political Commentator John Rentoul, writer, broadcaster and the founder of Conservative Home, Tim Montgomerie, singer-songwriter/politician Dafydd Iwan and music critic, history of pop lecturer, Simon Price, Education Editor at Wales Online and The Western Mail, Abbie Wightwick and Aled Eirug, who's the Chair of Coleg Cymraeg.
9/1/2024 • 54 minutes, 49 seconds
Middle East, US election, Welsh NHS, Paralympics
Guests include former BBC Middle East correspondent Jim Muir; former CBS news anchor and Democrat politician Sonny Dixon; Jennifer Ewing from Republicans Overseas UK; health economist Prof Marcus Longley; Jac Larner from Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre; Baroness Tanni Grey Thompson; newly retired BBC journalist Laurie Margolis; author and journalist Carole Burns and producer of the Hiraeth podcast Richard Martin.
8/25/2024 • 55 minutes, 16 seconds
Middle East, UK Tory leadership, devolution and the Welsh economy
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
8/18/2024 • 57 minutes, 40 seconds
11/08/2024
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
8/11/2024 • 55 minutes, 17 seconds
Far right, winter fuel payments and Henry Tudor
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
8/4/2024 • 55 minutes, 21 seconds
Welsh Government future, Westminster latest, US presidential race, Venezuela elections
Guests include Huw Irranca-Davies MS; Delyth Jewell MS; former Conservative special advisor Anthony Pickles; Observer columnist and former senior Labour advisor Sonia Sodha; Professor of American Politics Scott Lucas; Dr Carlos Solar who's a Senior Research Fellow in Latin American Security at the think tank RUSI; David Chadwick MP and Katie Dalton, director of Cymorth Cymru.
7/28/2024 • 54 minutes, 43 seconds
Welsh Labour leadership, Westminster politics, US presidential race, Paris 2024
Guests include Hefin David MS; Director of Cardiff University's Wales Governance Centre, Richard Wyn Jones; Labour MP for the Vale of Glamorgan, Kanishka Narayan; Plaid Cymru's Caerfyrrdin MP Ann Davies; Jennifer Ewing from Republicans Overseas; Prof Chris Carman from the University of Glasgow; Paris correspondent for The Times, David Chazan, Plaid Cymru MS Peredur Owen Griffiths and documentary film maker Inge Hanson.
7/21/2024 • 54 minutes, 36 seconds
Ministerial Sacking, King's Speech and Welsh Language
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
7/14/2024 • 54 minutes, 52 seconds
A new government and election fall out
Political news, discussions and analysis.
7/7/2024 • 55 minutes, 28 seconds
23/06/2024
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
6/23/2024 • 54 minutes, 48 seconds
Election news and analysis plus a review of the papers
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
6/16/2024 • 54 minutes, 9 seconds
General Election, Senedd Politics and the papers
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
6/9/2024 • 55 minutes, 47 seconds
General Election latest, RCN conference and paper review
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
6/2/2024 • 54 minutes, 39 seconds
FM, infected blood report and Conservative Party in Wales 1945–1997
Guests Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth, Labour's Huw Irranca Davies, Lynne Kelly who is the Chair of Haemophilia Wales and solicitor Des Collins, Donnacha Ó Beacháin, a Professor of Politics at Dublin City University, Associate Editor of Nation Cymru Martin Shipton, UCL lecturer Sam Blaxland, Labour MS Jenny Rathbone, and Claire Vaughan, Cinema Programme Manager at Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff.
5/19/2024 • 54 minutes, 51 seconds
Prisons, Senedd expansion and steel
Guests include Conservative MP Jamie Wallis, Wales Green Party leader Anthony Slaughter, Conservative MS Darren Millar, Labour MP Beth Winter, steel expert Dr Carol Bell, the FT's Lucy Fisher, crossbench peer Lord Burns, Future Generations Commissioner Derek Walker and Eluned Parrott, who was the Liberal Democrats' AM for South Wales Central from 2011-2016, in what was then the Welsh Assembly.
5/12/2024 • 55 minutes, 23 seconds
Election analysis, 25 years of Welsh devolution and nuclear power in north Wales
Guests include Conservative MP Craig Williams, Labour MP Nia Griffith, director of the Wales Governance Centre Professor Richard Wyn Jones, Conservative commentator Tim Montgomerie, former Welsh Secretary, ex Labour MP and former member of the Assembly - Ron Davies, Aled Eirug -- a Senior Lecturer at Swansea University - who co-edited 'The Impact of Devolution in Wales Social Democracy with a Welsh Stripe', Plaid Cymru's leader in Westminster and the MP for Dwyfor Meirionnydd, Liz Saville-Roberts, Dr Matt Wall, Head of the Department of Politics, Philosophy and International Relations at Swansea University, and George Carroll, Leader of the Conservative Group on the Vale of Glamorgan Council.
5/5/2024 • 55 minutes, 12 seconds
20mph & 30mph, SNP, assisted dying and social media
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
4/28/2024 • 53 minutes, 36 seconds
Middle East, 20mph, PIP payments and the Farmer-citizen movement
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
4/21/2024 • 55 minutes, 32 seconds
Post Office inquiry, future of museums in Wales and India's election
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
4/14/2024 • 55 minutes, 23 seconds
Six months of war in the Middle East, the politics of protest and remembering the Welsh poet and hymnist Ann Griffiths
Political news, discussion and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers
4/7/2024 • 54 minutes, 54 seconds
New Welsh cabinet, Plaid conference, Trump latest, Rwanda plans
Guests on the programme include North Wales and Transport Secretary Ken Skates, Welsh Secretary David TC Davies, Plaid Cymru's Westminster leader Liz Saville Roberts, Professor Scott Lucas, Baroness Smith of Llanfaes, Professor Kent Matthews and Professor Marcus Longley.
3/24/2024 • 55 minutes, 2 seconds
New Welsh Labour leader and the UK covid inquiry in Wales
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
3/17/2024 • 55 minutes, 22 seconds
Budget fallout, Gaza aid ship and being a government minister
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
3/10/2024 • 55 minutes, 6 seconds
Budget, Farming and Net Zero, Miners Strike 40 years on
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
3/3/2024 • 55 minutes, 8 seconds
Vote on Gaza ceasefire, Rural Affairs Minister and Covid inquiry Wales
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
2/25/2024 • 55 minutes, 23 seconds
By-elections, farming, cavity wall insulation and Indonesia election
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
2/18/2024 • 55 minutes, 19 seconds
Interview with Vaughan Gething MS, Farming and Fire Service
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
2/11/2024 • 55 minutes, 17 seconds
Lord Murphy on Stormont, measles and Pakistan elections
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
2/4/2024 • 55 minutes, 10 seconds
Interview with Jeremy Miles MS, Rwanda bill in the Lords, and global conflicts
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
1/28/2024 • 54 minutes, 34 seconds
Future of Tata Steel and Port Talbot, the Rwanda bill and Senedd voting reforms
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
1/21/2024 • 55 minutes, 2 seconds
Interview with Welsh Secretary David TC Davies, military strikes and new French PM
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
1/14/2024 • 55 minutes, 50 seconds
General election analysis, Welsh Labour leadership, Middle East & Ukraine, Post Office drama
Guests include leading political analyst Prof Sir John Curtice; political consultant Laura Emily Dunn; Professor of International Politics, Scott Lucas; Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies, Paul Rogers; Ken Skates MS; Tory Peer and ex MP Lord Arbuthnot, former TV executive, Clare Hudson. Reviewing the papers: Wayne David MP and Ruth Mosalski, political editor of Wales Online.
1/7/2024 • 55 minutes, 32 seconds
Global conflict, Lord Wigley and look ahead to politics in 2024
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
12/31/2023 • 56 minutes, 5 seconds
First Minister, Tata and post office scandal
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
12/17/2023 • 55 minutes, 9 seconds
Migrants and Rwanda, Gaza and Covid Inquiry
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
12/10/2023 • 55 minutes, 7 seconds
Cop28, Gaza and coal tips in Wales
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
12/3/2023 • 54 minutes, 44 seconds
26/11/2023
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
11/26/2023 • 55 minutes, 41 seconds
19/11/2023
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
11/19/2023 • 55 minutes, 14 seconds
12/11/2023
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
11/12/2023 • 55 minutes, 21 seconds
Middle East crisis, Tata steel and Welsh women's historic peace petition
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
11/5/2023 • 55 minutes, 15 seconds
Gaza bombing, Wales ban on single-use plastics and American philosopher Cornel West
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
10/29/2023 • 59 minutes, 58 seconds
22/10/2023
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
10/22/2023 • 55 minutes, 26 seconds
15/10/2023
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
10/15/2023 • 55 minutes, 21 seconds
Middle East, political conferences and Barnett
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
10/8/2023 • 55 minutes, 17 seconds
Tory Conference, Ofcom and National Parks
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
10/1/2023 • 55 minutes, 10 seconds
Future of bus transport, Chwarae Teg, and political turning points
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
9/24/2023 • 54 minutes, 42 seconds
20mph limits, the future of steel, and Chile's 1973 military coup
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
9/17/2023 • 54 minutes, 34 seconds
Offshore energy, Labour reshuffle and Urdd internationalism
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
9/10/2023 • 54 minutes, 17 seconds
Council strikes, 20mph limits, UK politics, back to school
Guests include Unite Wales regional secretary Peter Hughes; Sam Rowlands MS; Politics Professor Sir John Curtice; Director of the Association of School and College Leaders in Wales Eithne Hughes; Kado Muir, Chair of Australia's National Native Title Council. Paper reviewers: Heledd Fychan MS and Mark Hinge.
9/3/2023 • 55 minutes, 4 seconds
Trump latest, Welsh tourism, Llanelli asylum plans, Spanish football row
Guests include: Prof of US and International politics Scott Lucas; Deputy Minister for Tourism Dawn Bowden MS; Chair of the Wales Tourism Alliance Suzy Davies; Guardian senior economics commentator Aditya Chakrabortty; Monique Choudhuri of Women in Football; North Wales Chief Constable Amanda Blakeman; ecological statistician Dr Charles Paxton plus paper reviewers Clare Hudson and Bethany Handley.
8/27/2023 • 54 minutes, 57 seconds
Economic analysis, Ffos-y-Fran mine closure, Ecuador elections, cleaning up parliament & women's football
Guests on the programme include economist Vicky Pryce, director of the UK Energy Research Centre Robert Gross, Dr Carlos Solar who's a senior research fellow in Latin American security at RUSI, Chris Bryant MP, UEFA Vice President Laura McAllister and Australian women's football journalist Isobel Cootes. Reviewing the papers are Chair of Coleg Cymraeg Aled Eirug and Monmouthshire councillor Catherine Fookes.
8/20/2023 • 55 minutes, 1 second
Welsh Government budget cuts, tackling child poverty and the choices for political leaders when they resign
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers
8/14/2023 • 55 minutes, 56 seconds
06/08/2023
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
8/6/2023 • 55 minutes, 8 seconds
Climate change, Justice and SNP
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
7/30/2023 • 55 minutes, 4 seconds
By-election fall out, banking and Welsh agriculture's future
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
7/23/2023 • 54 minutes, 53 seconds
Migration bill, trade pact and free school meals
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
7/16/2023 • 54 minutes, 36 seconds
NATO, asylum seeker plan in Llanelli and 'toxic' Commons
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
7/9/2023 • 56 minutes, 18 seconds
Migration and ECHR, devo settlement and Powis Castle
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
7/2/2023 • 56 minutes, 20 seconds
Putin's Russia, animal welfare and the impact of boundary change
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
6/25/2023 • 54 minutes, 11 seconds
Plaid leadership, interest rates and Gwrych Castle a safe haven
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
6/18/2023 • 56 minutes, 1 second
By-elections, boundary changes and the Public Order Bill
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
6/11/2023 • 54 minutes, 38 seconds
Work culture at Westminster, Ukraine counter-offensive and Green prosperity plan
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
6/4/2023 • 54 minutes, 31 seconds
Rebuilding trust in Ely, an election run-off in Turkey and a letter from Wales
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
5/28/2023 • 53 minutes, 58 seconds
The G7 Summit, the right to strike and learning the lessons of financial crashes
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers
5/21/2023 • 53 minutes, 54 seconds
Plaid's leadership contest, elections in Turkey, and the future of Welsh farming
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
5/14/2023 • 54 minutes, 37 seconds
Workplace misogyny, election fall-out and Welsh hill farming
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
5/7/2023 • 54 minutes, 19 seconds
Coal, Steel and Monarchy
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
4/30/2023 • 54 minutes, 36 seconds
Dominic Raab, Wales basic income scheme and eco protest
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
4/23/2023 • 54 minutes, 30 seconds
Water pollution, strikes and 16th century Wales
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
4/16/2023 • 54 minutes, 9 seconds
Good Friday Agreement, Wales Benefits System and Y Sŵn
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
4/9/2023 • 54 minutes, 52 seconds
Water, Welsh language and restorative justice
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
4/2/2023 • 53 minutes, 52 seconds
with Nick Servini
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
3/26/2023 • 54 minutes, 41 seconds
Labour Conference, Budget & MOTD
Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.
3/12/2023 • 54 minutes, 24 seconds
Local Elections special
On the fifth of May we all have the chance to vote for the people we want to run our local council. Four separate elections are going on in the UK - each one with their own political context. But wherever you are it's this vote that decides who runs your local authority, and that means decisions on transport, schools, social services, waste and more. With that in mind, we've dedicated much of the programme to a live round table discussion with candidates from different parts of Wales.