Bill Bryson’s words seem appropriate to post right now
William Crawley
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Here is the live stream of today's edition of Talkback with @williamcrawley.bsky.social on BBC Radio Ulster celebrating 40 years of the programme from Belfast Central Library 📻 youtube.com/live/6jwqu0N...
Talkback: 40th Anniversary Special
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I presented @BBCR4Sunday live from Madrid today, marking the 90th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War. Guests include historians Sir Paul Preston and Julián Casanova, and Sec of State Fernando Martinez Lopez, who leads govt strategy on the war’s legacy. www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
BBC Audio | Sunday | Sunday is live from Madrid marking 90 years since the Spanish Civil War
Sunday is live from Madrid marking the 90th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War.
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The King’s speech to Congress was remarkably political. He reminded them of their constitutional role in limiting executive power, called for Ukraine support, defended NATO, challenged isolationism, celebrated inter-faith relations, and urged action on the climate crisis.
US Catholic bishops seem to be directly engaging JD Vance here. Vance suggested that the pope was unaware of Catholic Just War Theory — thereby missing the pope’s point, namely, that the US/Israel attack on Iran, launched mid-negotiations, cannot satisfy the Just War criteria.
Make no bones about it, Orbán’s defeat in this election is also a defeat for both Trump and Putin. Magyar’s campaign focused on prosecuting the case that Orban’s administration was a corrupt grift, and overwhelmingly that appears to have won the day.
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Exclusive: Iranian source says US has agreed to release frozen Iranian assets in Qatar, other banks
A senior Iranian source said on Saturday the U.S. had agreed to release Iranian frozen assets that were held in Qatar and other foreign banks, welcoming the move as a sign of "seriousness" in reaching a deal with Washington in talks in Islamabad.
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My Easter Monday special guest on #BBCTalkback is the comedian Vittorio Angelone. And he’s just wonderful. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Talkback - 06/04/2026 - BBC Sounds
William Crawley debates challenging issues and talks to the people making the headlines.
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On this weeks Sunday from @BBCRadio4: The King’s Easter Sunday messages Spirituality and space travel The use and abuse of the Bible in the politics of war India’s anti-conversion laws Music and mortality www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Sunday - 05/04/2026 - BBC Sounds
Easter messages, peacemaking for Iran, and space and spirituality.
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Maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz remains at a near-standstill. Here's what to know about the waterway that's key to oil and gas trade
How Iran Conflict Is Disrupting Strait of Hormuz
Maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has almost completely stopped in the days since the US and Israel launched strikes against Iran.
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President Catherine Connolly said the war in the Middle East constitutes 'deliberate assaults on international law' and affirmed Ireland's constitutional commitment to peace jrnl.ie/6978670
'Shocking and numbing': President Connolly condemns 'horror of war' in the Middle East
Catherine Connolly said on this day ‘the catastrophic consequences of violating the UN Charter cannot be ignored’.
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“But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis.” Mary Wollstonecraft, in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), argues that present realities cannot defeat the power of an imagined future — that revolutions begin with the imagination. #IWD26
OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying… “Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”
Does being rebuked by Tony Blair for not joining a war in the Middle East harm Kier Starmer — or help him?
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This FOl enquiry for the Guardian has taken up a great deal of my life for the past 2 years. (1/3)
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Cardinal Tobin: Pray, mourn and say 'no' to ICE funding
In a reflection delivered during an online interfaith prayer service hosted by Faith in Action, Tobin employed some of the strongest language yet by a U.S. cardinal to condemn the Trump administration...
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Two former presidents felt compelled to comment publicly
This appears to show an agent removing Alex Pretti’s legally-held gun seconds BEFORE other agents shot him.
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
The U.S. government assesses that about 75 people were killed during the military raid to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Officials said the fatalities include Venezuelan and Cuban security forces as well as civilians caught in the fray. https://wapo.st/3YtkDIM
The NATO Paradox: its promise of collective defence for member states encouraged individual member states to neglect their own national security, believing that the NATO defensive umbrella was sufficient — and guaranteed. They assumed that the US was strategically immutable.
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On today’s BBC Radio 4 Sunday programme: The Presbyterian Church in Ireland’s worsening crisis over safeguarding The Supreme Court rules that RE in Northern Ireland is unlawful Pope Leo at the movies And the UK’s Favourite School Hymn www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Sunday - RE in Northern Ireland is unlawful; Pope and Cinema; Nation’s Favourite School Hymn - BBC Sounds
A look at the ethical and religious issues of the week with William Crawley.
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How does he pay for it all? The mystery of Prince Andrew’s money
How does he pay for it all? The mystery of Prince Andrew’s money
The disgraced royal has lived in luxury for decades despite being an outcast and having no obvious means of financial support
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