Krishnan Guru-Murthy , Presenter

As a self-taught actor with no drama school training, Idris Elba has managed to make it from Hackney to Hollywood A-list. Now he’s backing a campaign by Project Literacy to help illiterate adults learn to read and write.

Labour MP David Lammy talks about his review of how the criminal justice system treats ethnic minorities.

Nissy Silulu, who has just graduated from Cambridge University and the Rector of Glasgow University – Aamer Anwar – who was elected to his post by students earlier this year.

Conservative MP Suella Fernandes leads the European Research Group of Tory MPs who have written to Theresa May warning against any transitional deal which would keep Britain in the single market.

Author and Chinese cultural commentator, Diane Wei Liang, and director of the SOAS China Institute at the University of London, Steve Tsang, discuss North Korea.

Fifty years ago, the stars of the legendary Stax record label, among them Otis Redding, guitarist Steve Cropper, Sam and Dave, Booker T and Eddie Floyd, played across the UK in a groundbreaking tour.

Tom Tugendhat, the new Conservative chair of the foreign affairs select committee, talks about the plight of the Rohingyas in Myanmar.

Yanghee Lee, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Myanmar, reacts to the reports coming out of the country.

In India, at least 19 people were killed after a residential block collapsed in a heavily populated area of Mumbai this morning, after days of torrential monsoon rains.

Tun Khin, president of the Burmese Rohingya Organisation in the UK, discusses the plight of the Rohingya people who are fleeing violence in Myanmar.

Conservative MP Vicky Ford and Labour MEP Seb Dance discuss the Brexit negotiations.

After a three-year battle to shake up the Police Federation – Steve White has called it a day – announcing he’ll leave his post at the end of the year.

He was part of President Trump’s inner circle – outspoken, controversial, on the fringes of the conservative right. But last week Sebastian Gorka was out of the White House – the latest in a slew of high profile departures.

Former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman – who was head of the US Environmental Protection Agency under President Bush – says President Trump’s ‘denial’ of climate change is ‘dangerous for our future’.

Robert Webb is one of the most recognisable faces of British comedy – a star of Channel 4’s longest-running sitcom, Peep Show. But now he’s written an autobiography called How Not To Be A Boy. It reveals the troubles and doubts of growing up through grief and family strife – and tackles the reality of…