"These were thugs who got the train in... They were using the death of three little kiddies for their own political purposes." Patrick Hurley, Labour MP for Southport, says last night's unrest in the town was 'utterly reprehensible'. #R4Today

Read all about it… Colour Your Streets. Our local colouring book company. In today’s Observer. Memorable to talk to Eva Wiseman about our new family business - while inside the last working windmill in London… still cringing at my unintentional millstone reference 😂

"They first tried to get into our house... They were swearing racial slurs and jumping on top of the car windscreen... It was very scary." Anneqa, a 17-year-old from Middlesborough, tells #R4Today what it was like when her house was targeted by rioters.

"I've not even begun to process the horror show that I've seen... [It's] very much one day at a time." John Hayes, who was stabbed during the Southport attack last week, tells Emma Barnett it's going to take him a while to process what he saw at the scene. #R4Today

Well worth a listen

“I felt incapable, I felt hollowed out by it… I lost my sense of self.” BBC presenter Kirsty Young speaks to @EmmaBarnett about the impact of living with chronic pain, and how she learned to accept her condition. #R4Today

Huge response to this on today’s BBC Radio 4 Today - so many people struggling. Big thanks to Kirsty for being so open and trusting. And to all those suffering - I hope you can find a path to some relief. I live with levels of chronic pain and fatigue because of endometriosis & still

From ⁦Emma Barnett⁩’s interview with Kirsty Young on ⁦BBC Radio 4 Today⁩ yesterday: Medic snorted at chronic pain syndrome ⬇️ thetimes.com/article/22dbf4…

James Coates, son of Ian Coates who was one of three people stabbed in Nottingham last year, tells @EmmaBarnett that he still texts his father's number to stay close to him. James also tells #R4Today he's hopeful of changes to mental health care to improve public safeguarding.

"I lost my father, who I loved, and this was my son who did that." Kathleen Barnard's son William, who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, killed her father John in 2009. She tells @EmmaBarnett it was 'the stuff of nightmares'. #R4Today

Listen to the whole interview on BBC Sounds #R4Today bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Incredibly brave of Kath to talk out this week…thank you to her #r4today

The final report of the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire will be published today, seven years after 72 people lost their lives. Listen to #R4Today as Emma Barnett broadcasts live from beneath the tower in west London.

"We were that person’s only hope of being rescued... We realised in that moment there was no way we could." Ricky Nuttal, one of the firefighters who attended the Grenfell fire and then suffered PTSD, tells #R4Today about that day.

Housing Secretary Angela Rayner tells #R4Today she doesn't have a 'definitive timeline' removing Grenfell-style cladding from buildings which still have it.

If you love colouring in, beautiful churches and brilliant journalists we have some very good news for you. The THE SE LONDON BOOKFEST is coming to St Giles where Emma Barnett and Jeremy Weil will be talking about their new book.

"I often felt lonely before his death... I think he might have done it with an effort to gently free me." Aurelie Boas, the wife of aid worker Simon Boas whose writing on dying touched millions, talks to Emma Barnett about his book, A Beginners Guide to Dying. #R4Today

Five women have told the BBC they were raped by former Harrods boss Mohamed Al Fayed when they worked at the luxury London department store. On this morning’s programme Emma Barnett speaks to one of them – Gemma - about the impact of what happened to her. #R4Today

Opinion I The darkness that enveloped Al Fayed’s victims will never lift 🖋️ Emma Barnett trib.al/ObHo1C8

Al-Fayed's crimes expose extraordinary Establishment power structures ✍️ Emma Barnett inews.co.uk/opinion/emma-b…