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The pop music producer Phil Spector has died while serving a jail sentence for murder. He masterminded dozens of hits in the 1960s and 70s and the US media has reported that he had recently been diagnosed with Covid-19.

Joe Wicks also known as ‘The Body Coach’ has for many become the personal trainer of the nation.

Spike talks to Krishnan about his reflections on the US election result and the changes this year has brought to the fight against racism across the world.

How have so many African nations managed to contain the coronavirus and why we have we left them out of the Covid conversation?

Professor Devi Sridhar is the Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh and sits on the Scottish Government Covid-19 Advisory Group.

He’s become one of the biggest names in Afropop with a huge following across Africa. Nigerian superstar Rema  is now making political waves. His latest song Peace of Mind reflects on a difficult year for the world, and for his homeland, especially the popular movement that’s taken to the streets.

It’s the archeologist’s equivalent of finding a £5 note down the back of the sofa, but on a much bigger scale. Step forward assistant curator Abeer Eladany, doing a stock take in the vaults of the University of Aberdeen when she found an old cigar box with a 5,000-year-old Egyptian surprise.

Dominic Harrison, or Yungblud, is a singer-songwriter who has become the poster of the younger generation. 

After a summer where concerns were raised over the numbers of BAME people dying in the community, should they be offered a vaccine early?

Kwame Kwei-Armah is the artistic director of the Young Vic theatre.

A new comedy play called The Comeback is quite literally making a comeback, as theatres in London’s West End begin opening their doors once again. 

When Donald Trump responded to the California wildfires by saying it would “start getting cooler”, it was a prime example of the president’s climate change scepticism that has partly defined his tenure in the White House. 

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David Dimbleby is a British journalist who has covered major news events for the BBC for over 40 years.

Bim Afolami is a Conservative MP, who was elected in 2017 to represent Hitchin and Harpenden.