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Marcia Hutchinson on how her debut novel was rejected 54 times by publishers
Despite it being rejected over 50 times, when Marcia Hutchinson finally got her debut novel published she was rewarded with a place on the shortlist for this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction.
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David Lammy: JD Vance comments on Henry Nowak murder wrong
Justice Secretary David Lammy has told this programme that he disagrees with US Vice President JD Vance over his comments linking the death of British student Henry Nowak to what he called ‘a mass invasion of migrants’.
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Ukraine war: Russian strikes nuclear fuel site near Chernobyl
A drone strike near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine has damaged a storage centre for spent nuclear fuel.
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Negotiating with US ‘like snakes and ladders’ says Iran Foreign Ministry spokesperson
We spoke to Esmail Baghaei and asked him how close America and Iran are to a deal.
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Iran has ‘no option but to retaliate’ to Beirut strikes – Iranian journalist
We’re joined by Abas Aslani, a senior research fellow at the Centre for Middle East Strategic Studies in Iran.
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Israel strikes ‘terrorist headquarters’ in Beirut
On the 100th day since America and Israel attacked Iran, mediators from Pakistan arrived in the Iranian capital today in a bid to revive the flagging peace process.
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Jeff Goldblum: live gigs are the antidote to isolation
He’s best known as a Hollywood actor in blockbusters like The Fly and Jurassic Park, but for more than three decades Jeff Goldblum has also pursued a second career as a jazz pianist and bandleader.
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Ukraine launches hundreds of drones at St Petersburg
Residents of St Petersburg have been told to stay at home following a large-scale Ukrainian drone attack on the city.
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Four more plead guilty to violent disorder after Southampton clashes
Four more men have pleaded guilty to violent disorder following clashes between police and protesters in Southampton earlier this week.
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Iran prepared for 10 years of war, says former senior IRGC commander
Earlier we spoke to Hossein Kanani Moghaddam, Leader and founder of the Green Party of Iran and Former Senior IRGC Commander.
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Three members of Lebanese army killed in Israeli strikes
Bahrain has called on Iran to cease attacks after it fired ballistic missiles towards US bases in Bahrain and Kuwait.
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‘Americans need to give up something’ to resolve deadlock – Head of Iranian think tank
We spoke to Hamid Reza Gholamzadeh, head of the Tehran-based Iran Diplomatic House.
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What Iranians really think of the war
We are reporting from Iran with permission from the government and we need to get approval for where we go and film, although they do not check our material before broadcast.
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‘We need to deal with the Ayatollahs the same way the West dealt with Hitler’ – Israeli diplomat
We spoke to Danny Ayalon, the former deputy foreign minister and Israeli ambassador to the United States, and asked him whether he thought this entire conflict had been a miscalculation for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
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Israel continues to strike southern Lebanon with no deal in sight
Our international editor Lindsey Hilsum reports from Lebanon where she travelled close to the Israeli border.























