'People would go on vacation and send back a great big picture of Tommy Shelby!'

📺 Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight on why the Birmingham-based gangster drama has struck such a chord around the world.

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Palliative care consultant Dr Amy Profitt tells #R4Today it could be 'deeply dangerous' to have a doctor-led assisted dying system in the NHS.

The topic will be debated later today in Parliament after a petition led by Dame Esther Rantzen, who has stage four lung cancer.

'I told them I was a member of parliament and then it all went very frosty.'

Conservative MP Tim Loughton tells #R4Today how he was deported out of Djibouti, which has close ties with China.

Beijing - which sanctioned Mr Loughton in 2021 - says the accusations are baseless.

“If you’re in government, won’t you have to say to some people on PIP payments: 'I’m sorry you can’t have it anymore?'”

@BBCNickRobinson asks Labour's deputy campaign coordinator Ellie Reeves, as the government unveils plans to reform personal independence payments.

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Scottish National Party leader Humza Yousaf is set to resign as early as today, BBC News understands

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'The problem may be the Conservatives have run a health service that can't support the people that need support?'

Nick Robinson questions Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride, as the government announces a consultation into Personal Independence Payments.

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'The SNP are capable of governing as a stable minority government... But I don't think Humza Yousaf anymore is in a position to be able to lead.'

Patrick Harvie, co-leader of the Scottish Greens, tells #R4Today there's nothing the FM can say to 'restore the trust he has broken'.

The government is set to announce a consultation into personal independent payments (PIP) as part of wider welfare reform plans.

Chief Political Correspondent @HZeffman explains.

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Are podcasts the antidote to rolling news?

Nick Robinson and Amol Rajan discuss this week on a ❓Your Questions Answered episode of The Today Podcast.

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Leader of the SNP in Westminster Stephen Flynn tells #R4Today that First Minister Humza Yousaf 'is going to come out fighting' amid a vote of no confidence following the collapse of power-sharing between the SNP and the Greens at Holyrood.

In the run-up to the election, #R4Today is returning to a selection of seats around the country to test voter sentiment.

Nick Robinson is in Bolton West, just north of Manchester, hearing from voters about housing.

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A trial of the world's first personalised vaccine against melanoma is now under way at University College London Hospitals.

UCLH investigator Dr Heather Shaw tells #R4Today how the jab is being used in conjunction with other cancer treatment.

🎥 Will there be a second series of the BBC's hit drama This Town?

Its creator Steven Knight tries to avoid Nick Robinson's question on this week's The Today Podcast... but does he manage to?

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'The fracture and the division... A lot of it started on screens and on TV and I hope that doesn't happen here.'

Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight chats to @BBCNickRobinson about the influence of American news.

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'Broadcasting is offering something special... A guaranteed range of views.'

Former ITN boss Stewart Purvis tells @BBCNickRobinson why he believes Ofcom's rules on impartiality need to change.

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Hello, Dolly! is making its return to the London stage for the first time since 1984.

The Crown star Imelda Staunton will play Dolly, the New York matchmaker, and tells #R4Today she is 'utterly terrified' of the singing role.

'This is music you won't hear anywhere else.'

BBC Radio 3 and @BBCProms controller Sam Jackson tells Jonny Dymond about this year's Proms line-up, including ‘new orchestrations’ with Florence + The Machine and Sam Smith.

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