Episodes
Naga Munchetty is joined by TV personality Vicky Pattison to talk about what it’s like living with PMDD (Premenstrual dysphoric disorder). She’s also joined by experts Dr Nighat Ari and Dr Christine Ekechi to answer your questions on the condition. Each month Naga and the team look in depth at a key sexual or reproductive health issue Part of 5 Live’s Me, My Health & I series. Get in touch via @bbc5live on social media.
Published 05/08/24
Published 05/08/24
Naga Munchetty is joined by experts Dr Nighat Arif and Dr Christine Ekechi to answer your questions on endometriosis. Each month Naga and the team look in depth at a key sexual or reproductive health issue. Part of 5 Live’s Me, My Health & I series. Get in touch via @bbc5live on social media
Published 04/25/24
Naga Munchetty is joined by experts Dr Nighat Arif and Dr Christine Ekechi to answer your questions on trying to conceive. Each month Naga and the team will take your questions on a key sexual or reproductive health issue. Part of 5 Live's Me, My Health & I series. Get in touch via @bbc5live on social.
Published 03/27/24
5 Live takes an in-depth look at the available care provision to diagnose and support people with Tourette’s, a neurological condition that causes a person to make involuntary movements and sounds. Only 1 in 5 of the NHS Mental Health Trusts in England and Health Boards in Wales contacted by the BBC say they provide at least one specialist in tic disorders, including Tourette’s syndrome. Producer Isabel Kimbrey, who was diagnosed at the age of 7 picks up the story and explores some of the...
Published 03/27/24
5 Live takes an in depth look at autism, specifically how it presents in girls and women. Three quarters of girls with autism may not have been diagnosed with the condition. The N-8 Group, which is a collection of universities in the North of England, also found that ten times as many boys as girls are referred. As part of a day of coverage presenter Clare Mcdonnell visited Limpsfield Grange school in Surrey, the only state school in the UK for autistic girls to meet with students and staff...
Published 03/21/24
Nihal Arthanayake speaks to staff at the UK's Secret Intelligence Service.
Published 03/03/24
Naga Munchetty is joined by experts Dr Nighat Arif and Dr Christine Ekechi to answer your questions on fibroids. Each month Naga and the team will take your questions on a key sexual or reproductive health issue. Part of 5 Live's Me, My Health & I series. Get in touch via @bbc5live on social.
Published 02/29/24
Naga Munchetty is joined by experts Dr Nighat Arif and Dr Christine Ekechi to answer your questions on periods. Each month Naga and the team will take your questions on a key sexual or reproductive health issue. Part of 5 Live's Me, My Health & I series. Get in touch via @bbc5live on social.
Published 02/15/24
Parliament is once again under fire over complaints about sexual harassment and bullying, with MPs suspended from their parties and claims of a toxic workplace culture going unchecked. 5 Live’s Naga Munchetty speaks to staff members and MPs who give their accounts of sexual harassment and bullying. Exactly five years after parliament set up a new system to deal with complaints, many of those campaigning to clean up the House have lost faith in it, saying it is too slow and...
Published 07/19/23
5 Live presenter Colin Murray has brought together three of his friends, actor James Nesbit, presenter Patrick Kielty and journalist Holly Hamilton to discuss their feelings about Northern Ireland. Their conversation came after dissident republican group the New IRA has admitted it shot Det Ch Insp John Caldwell in Omagh. He has suffered life-changing injuries and remains in a stable, but critical condition in hospital.
Published 03/03/23
Love Island star Tasha Ghouri has a cochlear implant - a small, electronic device that can help to provide a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard-of-hearing. It has two parts: one worn like a hearing aid behind the ear and the other surgically implanted. The implant turns sounds into electrical signals, instead of simply making sounds louder, like a conventional hearing aid would. So it's an option for some adults and children when a normal hearing aid won't...
Published 12/06/22
Has your accent helped or hindered you? A new study has found one in four people say they've been mocked for their accents at work.
Published 11/03/22
19-year-old Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg joins BBC 5 Live’s Nihal Arthanayake and answers listeners questions like ‘What do you find most frustrating about human behaviour?’ and ‘What can kids do about climate change?’
Published 11/02/22
Dr Waheed Arian arrived alone in the UK aged 15 as an Afghan refugee, he’s now an NHS doctor and author. He gives Radio 5 Live’s Clare McDonnell his view on the issues at Manston migrant centre.
Published 11/01/22
Scott Mitchell, husband to the late Dame Barbara Windsor, says the day a loved one is diagnosed with dementia is the “day most people begin their grieving”. Speaking to Radio 5 Live’s Naga Munchetty, the Alzheimer’s Research UK ambassador shared memories of his life with “Babs”, how she reacted to her diagnosis and his thoughts on social care.
Published 10/11/22
As the Prime Minister is interviewed for the first time since her government announced a raft of controversial economic measures, 5 Live's Nicky Campbell asks listeners if she has their trust. After hearing some of the eight interviews the Prime Minister gave to BBC Local Radio stations, Nicky asks callers if they are reassured that her government's economic decisions have put the UK on the right track, or do they want her to reverse course after days of market instability and warnings about...
Published 09/29/22
People from around the UK pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II as the nation mourns her death.
Published 09/18/22
New Prime Minister Liz Truss and Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer faced each other for the first time at Prime Minister's Questions. Chris Warburton was joined by Joey Jones, a former spokesman for Theresa May, and John McTernan, a former political secretary to Tony Blair, to get their thoughts, analysis and reaction to the events in the House of Commons. You can listen to PMQs in full on 5 Live every Wednesday at 12:00 via the BBC Sounds app.
Published 09/07/22
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer joins Nicky Campbell to answer questions from 5 Live listeners in a special phone-in that was also broadcast on the BBC News Channel.
Published 09/01/22
TikTok was founded just six years ago and is already one of the leading social media platforms, becoming the world’s most downloaded app in 2020. It has more than one billon monthly active users and is especially popular with teens and young adults, with 42% of TikTok users aged between 18 and 24. 5 Live Breakfast has been looking at the impact of TikTok as the platform’s popularity continues to rise. TOPICS: 01:43 – Shiona McCallum, a BBC Technology Reporter 04:03 – Jan Gerber, CEO and...
Published 07/11/22
On Tuesday night, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's premiership plunged into crisis following the dramatic resignations of Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid. They quit within minutes of each other on following a row over Mr Johnson's decision to appoint Chris Pincher as deputy chief whip earlier this year. After a further flurry of resignations on Wednesday morning, the prime minister faced fierce questioning in the House of Commons for what was sure to be a heated...
Published 07/06/22
Former elite gymnast Clare Heafford, Guardian sports reporter Sean Ingle and Rachael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse US Gymnastics Doctor Larry Nassar of sexual abuse, join Colin Murray to discuss The Whyte Review.
Published 06/30/22
Radio 1 DJ Adele Roberts has recently finished a round of chemotherapy for bowel cancer and is now living with a stoma. She spoke to 5 Live’s Naga Munchetty about everything from naming her stoma, feeling sexy again and how cancer treatment has changed her relationship with her body.
Published 05/24/22
Dr Waheed Arian, a former refugee from Afghanistan, now an A&E doctor, wanted to hear stories from other people like him. He is working to help improve the accessibility of mental health services for refugees like himself. One of the people he spoke to was Nataliia from Ukraine, who arrived in the UK along with her six-year-old daughter a couple of months ago.
Published 05/17/22