Krishnan Guru-Murthy , Presenter

Screenwriter of Love Actually, Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral, Richard Curtis’ influence on romantic comedies and the nation’s Christmas viewing schedules is immense. But, he’s also just as world-changing for his charity work. As the founder of Comic Relief, Make Poverty History and now, an advocate for the UN sustainability goals, he…

Campaigner Melvyn Akins and Joe Beswick, from the New Economics Foundation, discuss the government’s social housing plans.

Dal Babu, a former chief superintendent in the Metropolitan Police, discusses what happened at Westminster.

She says Americans are disconnected, not divided, and Israelis and Palestinians have more in common than they think. Rashida Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, is now the Democratic party candidate for Michigan’s 13th district, a story hailed as the epitome of the American dream.

To discuss this new evidence from inside the Syrian regime is Kirsty Brimelow QC and Paddy Ashdown.

On Monday the company said it had taken down a series of pages associated with Jones because they glorified violence and used dehumanising language.

Jack Dorsey insisted that Jones had not violated their rules, declaring he would not ‘succumb’ or ‘react’ to outside pressure. 

Our guest this week is Gina Miller, the lead claimant in a successful legal battle ensuring that parliament had the final say over triggering Article 50. She’s seen as a defender of the constitution by some, and an “enemy of the people” by others.

It sounds like the title of a disaster movie, but a “Hothouse Earth” is what a group of climate scientists say we could be heading for – even if current carbon reduction targets are met.  

Comments by Boris Johnson about women wearing burqas have been described as ‘Islamophobic’ and ‘totally unacceptable’ by Muslim groups. In an article, the former foreign secretary wrote: “It is absolutely ridiculous that people should choose to go around looking like letter boxes.”

The seventeen-year-old spent eight months in jail and was released this week to a hero’s welcome and praise from the Palestinian President. A regular child protester Ahed was arrested after being filmed slapping and kicking an Israeli soldier outside her home on the same day a teenage relative had been injured by what’s thought to have been an Israeli plastic bullet. 

Krishnan Guru-Murthy sat down with Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England following their decision to raise interest rates despite opposition from some business groups.

Our guest this week is Darren McGarvey, better known as ‘Loki’. The Glaswegian rapper is this year’s Orwell Prize winner for his book ‘Poverty Safari’. He talks about his difficult childhood and alcohol problem, how he thinks poverty can be tackled, and why the left needs to reclaim the idea of personal responsibility.

Facebook says it has identified a co-ordinated attempt to interfere in November’s mid-term elections in the United States. Ed Howker has been going through the details.

Hundreds of people in Greece have been mourning the deaths of at least 88 people who died in the wildfires which swept through an area east of Athens – many accusing the Greek government of being underprepared for the fires and downplaying the true scale of the damage.