Krishnan Guru-Murthy , Presenter

One of the most famous DJs and record producers, Carl Cox, known as the three deck wizard, has been a fixture on the dance scene since the illegal raves of the 1980s. 

Carl Cox is one of the original superstar DJs of the 80s and 90s. He helped bring acid house from the warehouses of Chicago to British raves, the unregulated party scene, then festivals and clubs.

We spoke to Lord Simon Woolley, who’s founder and director of Operation Black Vote and a former senior government adviser on race equality. 

MPs have voted to back the government’s £14 billion tax rise to fund extra spending on the NHS and social care.

We spoke to the shadow health secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, about Boris Johnson’s announcement of a rise of 1.25% in national insurance from next April to help pay for the NHS and social care.

We spoke to David Petraeus, former commander of US forces in Afghanistan, and began by asking what he thought of the way that the US troops withdrawal had been handled.

We spoke to Professor Anthony Harnden, the deputy chair of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation, and asked him why they had ruled out vaccines for healthy 12 to 15-year-olds.

Covid cases in England have remained steady recently, but the start of the school year is being treated with caution. In Scotland, where pupils are already back, cases have surged. 

The Afghan MP interviewed in Paraic O’Brien’s report was Maryam Koofi. Earlier today, we spoke to her sister, Fawzia Koofi, a former MP and women’s rights activist who was held under house arrest by the Taliban. She escaped and is in Doha. We asked her whether she was in touch with her colleagues who hadn’t…

Flora Neda and her husband, an Afghan army officer, fled the Taliban in 1996. Two decades later he died in the Grenfell fire, after staying to help four women who took refuge in their top floor flat. 

We spoke to Omar Samad, who served as senior adviser to the former chief executive of Afghanistan, Dr Abdullah Abdullah.

We were joined by Charlie Herbert, a former British Army major-general, who has been trying to save Afghan interpreters from the Taliban. 

We were joined by David Blanchflower, a former member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee who is now an economics professor at Dartmouth University, and Rupert Harrison, who was former chancellor George Osborne’s chief of staff from 2010 to 2015 – and is now at the BlackRock investment firm.

We spoke to Pashtana Durrani, who runs a charity which focuses on getting girls into education in Kandahar. She is now trapped in her home while the Taliban edges closer. We asked what was happening there as we spoke.

If petrol and diesel are to end up in our rear view mirrors, what will we need to power the green revolution? We spoke to Lukasz Bednarski, the author of a new book on the global race in lithium production.