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Best of Today

Listen to selected highlights from the Today programme.

Listen to selected highlights from the Today programme.

 

#74

I have terminal cancer but 'I'm as happy as ever’

Former aid worker Simon Boas, whose essays about his feelings towards life and death went ... more

26 Dec 2024

09 MINS

09:02

26 Dec 2024


#73

Best of Today: What should children learn?

The government has started a major review of the curriculum and assessment in England's sc... more

11 Oct 2024

39 MINS

39:51

11 Oct 2024


#72

Today Listener Series: Young people and politics

Earlier this year, the Today programme gave our listeners the chance to look at an issue t... more

19 Sep 2024

09 MINS

09:20

19 Sep 2024


#71

Today Listener Series: NHS Forensic Psychology centre in Liverpool

All this week we've been hearing stories brought to us by Today listeners. Dr Lisa Wright... more

18 Sep 2024

13 MINS

13:32

18 Sep 2024


#70

Today Listener Series: Is university worth it?

Earlier this year, the Today programme gave our listeners the chance to look at an issue t... more

17 Sep 2024

17 MINS

17:02

17 Sep 2024


#69

Today Listener Series: Where's my bus?

Earlier this year we gave listeners the chance to ask us to look at an issue for them. Mar... more

16 Sep 2024

16 MINS

16:13

16 Sep 2024


#68

Today Listener Series: The disappearing children

All this week the Today programme is looking at stories that have been brought to us by ou... more

16 Sep 2024

12 MINS

12:28

16 Sep 2024


#67

Garry Richardson's 50 years at the BBC

Garry Richardson has finished his last sports bulletin on Radio 4's Today programme - 50 y... more

09 Sep 2024

07 MINS

07:56

09 Sep 2024


#66

Dr Clare Bailey Mosley: We want to honour Michael’s work

Radio 4 is marking Friday 12th as “Just One Thing Day” in celebration of Dr Michael Mosley... more

12 Jul 2024

15 MINS

15:14

12 Jul 2024


#65

The Today Debate: Is justice delayed, justice denied?

The Today Debate is about taking a subject and pulling it apart with more time than we hav... more

13 Feb 2024

36 MINS

36:31

13 Feb 2024


#64

Theresa May: 'During PMQs my blood sugar went up'

When Theresa May was diagnosed with type 1 in her 50s, she told the consultant: "I'm too o... more

23 Jan 2024

12 MINS

12:25

23 Jan 2024


#63

Dame Emma Walmsley Guest Edits Today

The last of our Christmas guest editors is the CEO of the global biopharma company GSK, Da... more

01 Jan 2024

1 HR 14 MINS

1:14:34

01 Jan 2024


#62

Professor Jason Arday Guest Edits Today

Professor Jason Arday is our latest Christmas guest editor. This year he was appointed as... more

30 Dec 2023

53 MINS

53:11

30 Dec 2023


#61

Andrew Malkinson Guest Edits Today

Andrew Malkinson is Today's latest Christmas guest editor. He spent 17 years in prison for... more

29 Dec 2023

49 MINS

49:45

29 Dec 2023