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Sunday Supplement

BBC Radio Wales

Political news, discussions and analysis, plus a round-up of the Sunday papers with our guest reviewers.

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55:12

Labour conference and welfare woes one year since the...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/06/29

Labour leader and Welsh First Minister Eluned Morgan joins us from Labour conference in Llandudno. Journalist Chloe Chaplin dissects Labour's turmoil on the welfare bill. Philosopher Dr Huw Williams from Cardiff University tells us why more thoughtful subjects like his are still important. After a year in the job, Ann Davies talks about the highs and the lows of being a brand new MP. Andrew Monaghan is with us to review his book, Blitzkrieg and the Russian Art of War.Vale of Glamorgan conservative

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55:29

Iran nuclear facilities bombed, the UN AT 80, council...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/06/22

After the US bombs nuclear facilities in Iran, Israeli political commentator Gideon Levy and Chair of the Ezri Centre for Iran and Gulf states research Dr Efrat Sopher, puts Trump's intervention into context. Author and historian Diana Preston explains Roosevelt's vision as the UN celebrates 80 years of its existence. Welsh Local Government Association and Rhondda Cynon Taf Council leader, Andrew Morgan and Dr Marlene Davies, expert in local government finance and Associate of the University of

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59:46

Wales funding, politician safety, Middle East, Gwen &...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/06/15

Guests include First Minister Eluned Morgan; Adam Price MS, Chatham House director Bronwen Maddox; Prof Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones and Judith Mackrell. The paper reviewers are Baroness Ilora Finlay and Plaid Cymru councillor Steve Skivens.

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54:23

Rail funding, Spending Review, and 50 years of...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/06/08

Vaughan Roderick talks to Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake about rail funding, discusses the Spending Review with Baroness Debbie Wilcox and the Institute of Directors' Richard Selby and reflects on 50 years of Parliament on the radio with former Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans. Plus what does the Hamilton by-election mean for Scotland's parties, and Dai Havard discusses what Merthyr's radical political past tells us about its future.

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55:33

01/06/2025

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/06/01

Vaughan Roderick with political news, discussions and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers.

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54:51

Starmer's Europe deal, Middle East latest, five years...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/05/25

Guests include Nia Griffith MP; musician Peredur ap Gwynedd; Middle East historian Diana Darke and Middle East analyst Dr Laura James; US political watcher Spencer McKinney; author Cormac Moore. Paper reviews: Bethan Sayed and Andrew White.

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54:43

18/05/2025

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/05/18

Vaughan Roderick with political news, discussions and analysis, plus a review of the Sunday papers.

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55:34

The state of the parties leading to 2026, smartphones...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/05/11

Julie Morgan MS, Lord Wigley and Anthony Pickles dissect the latest polling with a year to go until the Senedd elections. Ian Gerrard, head of Ysgol Aberconwy discusses the use of smartphones in schools and their effect on behaviour. NUS Wales president Deio Owen talks about the possible plan to allow free movement of students across Europe and Dr Anne Harrington from Cardiff University reminds us that the second world war continued in the pacific after VE day, ending only with atomic warfare

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54:29

Elections in England, Australia and Wales. And what...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/05/04

Professor Sir John Curtice takes us through the data on the closest by-election since the second world war and local elections in England. Niki Savva joins us from Canberra with the latest on the Australian general election. Neha Mukherjee explains why the US wants the deal on Ukrainian minerals so much. Professor Richard Wyn Jones looks ahead to the Senedd 2026 election, and Councillor Calum Davies tells us why he thinks the Conservatives should embrace getting rid of the Senedd.Sandra Loy from

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54:58

Ukraine peace? Hybu Cig Cymru, drugs in prisons, the...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/04/27

Will the peace talks lead to lasting peace in Ukraine? Journalist Irina Matviyishyn will give us the latest from Ukraine. Jose Peralta from Hybu Cig Cymru is with us to defend HCCs posts about agricultural emissions and Rory Francis from the Snowdonia Society explains why it's important to be scientific about climate change. After an unannounced inspection of Parc Prison found that drugs are widely available there, Vanessa Frake-Harris tells us how she cut down on drug use at Wormwood Scrubs during

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55:34

Steel, tariffs, a new German coalition, farm...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/04/13

After parliament was recalled on Saturday to save British Steel's Scunthorpe plant, Alun Davies National Secretary for Steel for Community Union is with us with a Welsh steel worker's reaction. Ian Williams, long time foreign correspondent and author of Vampire State: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese Economy tells us what the US-Chinese trade war means for the rest of us. Chief Political Editor of DW news Michaela Kuefner explains how and why German politicians made a coalition deal as quickly as

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56:02

Trump's tariffs, Welsh Labour rifts, Le Pen and the...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/04/06

Journalist and Trump supporter Steve Merczynski joins us with the American reaction to Trump's tariffs, whilst MediWales' CEO Gwyn Tudor explains how they affect Welsh pharmaceutical exports. Guardian columnist Will Hayward goes through the ins and outs of the relationship between the Welsh Labour government and their UK counterparts. Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds is in the studio after her party's spring conference. Julie Morgan MS and Adam Rees from the Huggard Centre review the

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53:09

Welfare cuts, Irish neutrality, assissted dying,...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/03/30

Blaenau Gwent MS Alun Davies is in to talk about the effect of welfare changes on his constituents. Emeritus Professor Brigid Laffan analyses Irish neutrality in a changing world. Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville-Roberts discusses the constitutional intricacies of the Assisted Dying Bill. Political commentator Matt Kilcoyne explains why he thinks new constituency names in Wales should be bi-lingual. David Hooper tells us why he wrote his book, Buying Silence, all about Strategic Lawsuits Against Public

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54:47

A new world order? Welfare reform, inward investment,...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/03/23

Former president of the NATO parliamentary assembly, Madeleine Moon and historian and political commentator Sir Deian Hopkin consider the new world order. Economist Alex Clegg from the Resolution Foundation discusses welfare reform and the upcoming spring statement. Businessman Mark Rhydderch Roberts has suggestions on how to improve the Welsh economy. Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth is with us following his party's spring conference. Conservative MS James Evans discusses dementia care. Lord

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55:24

Ceasefire? Trade tariffs, Future Generations Act,...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/03/16

Will Russia agree to a ceasefire? Political analyst and youtuber Vlad Vexler gives us the inside track on Russian opinion on the war. Economist Linda Yueh explains how US tariffs affects world trade and former Welsh government minister Jane Davidson is with us to celebrate 10 years of the Future Generations Act - what is it and what has it achieved? Nicola Sturgeon is standing down from Holyrood at the next Scottish election. Veteran broadcaster Lesley Riddoch talks about her legacy. After twenty

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54:39

Ukraine, Higher Education, a new electoral map, Covid...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/03/09

Former MP and chair of the defence committee, Tobias Ellwood illustrates how Europe could fill the void left by America's pulling their military intelligence from Ukraine.Professor Leighton Andrews from Cardiff Business School and former Education Minister explains why he's angry about Cardiff University cuts and says what he would like to see happen with higher education in Wales. On Covid Remembrance Day, Dr Simon Williams from Swansea University outlines how the pandemic changed us - and says

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55:31

Ukraine, aid cuts, German coalition building, space...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/03/02

President Zelensky and european leaders are in London to discuss the future of the Ukraine War, Rhodri Lewis is in London for BBC Wales and unpacks the situation following the public falling out between the US and Ukrainian presidents. Russell Isaac, DRR consultant talks about the importance of overseas aid matters, after a government minister resigns following Prime Minister Keir Starmer's decision to cut overseas aid to increase defence spending. In Germany, CSU/CDU and the SPD have begun

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55:02

Ukraine, health, free to air rugby, politicians and...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/02/23

Three years since the start of the Ukraine war, we have Ukrainian journalist Kateryna Gorodnycha and Bronwen Maddox from Chatham House with reaction to Donald Trump's comments this week, his call for an election and for further spending on defence in the UK and Europe. Health Minister Jeremy Miles is with us to respond to the pressures on the Welsh NHS, and Tonia Antoniazzi MP makes a passionate plea to keep Six Nations rugby free to air. Michael Mansfield KC discusses the relationship between

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54:40

Ukraine, higher education, deliberate deception,...

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/02/16

Ukrainian journalist Romeo Kokriatski joins us from Kyiv to discuss developments on the Ukraine-Russian war. Higher Education Minister Vikki Howells is with us to discuss university funding and falling numbers enrolling for higher education. Mick Antoniw MS talks about the Senedd's upcoming standards committee's report on deliberate deception. As Germany prepares to go to the polls, Professor of German Andrea Hammel discusses the main issues in the election. And Richard O'Brien tells us more about

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56:29

09/02/2025

Sunday Supplement ·

2025/02/09

Presenter Vaughan Roderick remembers Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas with his biographer Aled Eirug and former Secretary of State for Wales Ron Davies; Dr Brieg Powel from Exeter University talks everything Trump and peace in the Middle East; anti-nuclear campaigner Robat Idris discusses simplifying planning permission for nuclear reactors; Children's Commissioner for Wales Rocio Cifuentes debates the perils of smart phones; and her former correspondence secretary Matthew Parris reminisces about Margaret

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