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 work.

When Tasha went on Love Island this year, she described her cochlear implant as a superpower. 

Naga Munchetty introduced Tasha to three women who she's inspired.

Tasha Ghouri: Why deafness is my superpower

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.

Voice of the UK: Accents

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?’

Voice of the UK: Greta Thunberg Q&A

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.

Voice of the UK: Former refugee on migration issues

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.

Scott Mitchell: ‘Dementia is a cruel illness’

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 the future of mortgages and pensions?

You can hear Nicky talk to listeners every weekday on 5 Live from 9am.

Liz Truss’s Economic Plan: Credibility or Liability?

People from around the UK pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth II as the nation mourns her death.

The Queen: Tributes from around the UK

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.

Truss and Starmer's first PMQs

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.

Sir Keir Starmer: Your Questions Answered with Nicky Campbell

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 founder a mental health and addiction clinic 
09:25 – Mesha Moinirad - otherwise known as Mr Colitis Crohn’s 
14:41 – Influencer Seema Pankhania, content creator and recipe developer 
17:58 - Sophie O’Sullivan, in recovery from anorexia and Tom Quinn, Director of External Affairs at the Eating Disorder charity BEAT 
25:12 - Sam Ryder, musician and Eurovision star 
28:03 - Marianna Spring, BBC’s Specialist Disinformation reporter 
33:53 – Zeynab Mohamed who thought she had OCD after watching videos on platforms like TikTok and clinical psychologist Jane Gilmore 
40:20 – Reporter Mark Hutchings speaking to a group of 15-year-old pupils at Pen y Dre High School in Merthyr

TikTok: The Good, The Bad and The Algorithms

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 edition of PMQs.

Following this, Sajid Javid spoke to the House to give his resignation speech after quitting as health secretary last night.

With analysis from Editor of The House Magazine, Rosa Prince, and Parlimentary Correspondent Sean Curran.

PMQs - ‘Enough is enough', Javid tells PM in resignation speech

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.

The Whyte Review: Abuse in British Gymnastics

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.

Adele Roberts on her stoma, feeling sexy and finishing cancer treatment

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.

Ukrainian mum: ‘I want to be useful for the UK’

BBC Bitesize, in partnership with Netmums, present a live panel to discuss how parents feel about child & parental mental health in 2022.

Hosted by 5 Live's Rachel Burden with experts, Dr Ranj and Laverne Antrobus and special guests Carrie Grant and David Grant (broadcasters & vocal coaches), Kelle Bryan (singer & actress) and Annie O’Leary (Netmums Editorial Director).

#MentalHealthAwareness

Let's Talk About Children's Mental Health Live

We’re used to seeing security tags on alcohol, electronics and razorblades, but now the Co-op have put anti-theft devices on blocks of cheese – it’s seen as a sign shoplifting is on the increase as the cost of living deepens.
 
Radio 5 Live’s Stephen Nolan asked his listeners if we should be understanding and compassionate towards people who are so desperate they resort to crimes such as shoplifting at times of crisis, or is it important to come down hard?

Cost of living and shoplifting: Should we be more compassionate?

5 Live Breakfast and BBC Breakfast answer your questions about the war in Ukraine in a joint broadcast. Rachel Burden is joined by the BBC’s Security Correspondent Frank Gardner, Russia Editor for BBC Monitoring Vitaly Shevchenko, the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet live from Kyiv and the economist and broadcaster Linda Yueh. She also hears from some of those who have fled Ukraine over the past fortnight and whose lives have been devastated by the Russian invasion.

Origianally broadcast on Friday, 11 March 2022.

War in Ukraine: Your Questions Answered

Listen back in full to a rowdy PMQs, as Labour leader Keir Starmer accuses prime minister Boris Johnson of showing "nothing but contempt" for the public over Downing Street lockdown parties.

The PM again says he won't resign and insists his government "gets the big calls right" in its handling of the Covid pandemic.

It comes as the PM expects to receive Sue Gray's report into parties at Downing Street during lockdown some time later today.

Naga Munchetty hears analysis and reaction from Parliamentary political correspondent, Susan Hulme,  political correspondent at The Sun, Natasha Clark, and  reporter at New Statesman, Harry Lambert.

First broadcast at 12:00 on Naga Munchetty's BBC Radio 5 Live show on 26 January 2022.

PMQs: Johnson says he won’t resign

Boris Johnson faced a rowdy Commons, a day after he was accused of misleading MPs about parties.

Labour leader Keir Starmer pressed Johnson on if he was warned that a May 2020 drinks party risked breaking rules.

In a dramatic moment, Tory MP Christian Wakeford quit the Conservatives and walked across the floor to join Labour, as well as veteran Conservative and former minister David Davis telling the PM: "In the name of God, go"

Naga Munchetty also hears analysis and reaction from the BBC’s Deputy Political Editor Vicki Young and Newsnight Political Editor Nick Watt.

First broadcast at 12:00 on Naga Munchetty's BBC Radio 5 Live show on 19 January 2022.

PMQs: Tory MP defects as ex-minister tells Johnson to go

Boris Johnson admits - for the first time - that he attended a drinks party at No 10 during the first lockdown.

Speaking at PMQs, he offered a "heartfelt apology" but said he had believed it to be a work event.

Naga Munchetty hears reaction from BBC parliamentary correspondent Alicia McCarthy, Conservative writer and commentator Jo-Anne Nadler and 5 Live callers. 

First broadcast at 12:00 on Naga Munchetty's BBC Radio 5 Live show on 12 January 2022.

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