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Ben Weisz has a sit down on the sea front and looks back at the highlights of the last three months of walking with MPs. Huw Merriman on bees, Lloyd Russell Moyle on being ginger and Jeremy Hunt on switching off.Editor: Richard CulverPresenter
Pack your thermals and your second (and third) jumper for this chilly walk round Tilgate lake with Crawley’s MP Henry Smith. Interrupted by most of England’s native wildfowl along the way, Henry tells us how his first brush with Parliament cam
Ambling along the Adur river this week with East Worthing and Shoreham MP Tim Loughton. We discuss his burgeoning acting career, which noises to make in Parliament, and pick out our favourite houseboats. But in a month where MPs’ second jobs ha
In the grounds of a mansion built for George II’s mistress, Lib Dem MP for Twickenham Munira Wilson begins our walk along the Thames. West London’s parks were a haven for her family as the new MP became her party’s health spokesperson in the m
Into the woods with Sarah Jones MP this week – as we discover the wild parkland in the heart of her Croydon constituency, not far from where she grew up. Labour’s shadow policing and fire minister tells us how a Tory speech got her into politi
In the town of Polegate, dragons and witches are mustering under a tree full of baying birds...well, it is the annual children's Halloween do. We're not invited, so instead, Lewes MP Maria Caulfield takes us for a walk down the nearby Cuckoo T
Employment minister Mims Davies takes us on a dander through Haywards Heath’s hidden parkland gems.She talks about having done every job under the sun - from cooking at Little Chef to doing local radio traffic and travel.She discusses whether p
He’s known as the leftwing firebrand who grabbed the mace from the House of Commons - but where does it come from? In this walk, Labour’s Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP explains that being ginger has something to do with that. So too the Woodcraft Folk
Huw Merriman may be a Conservative MP now – but as a teenager, he had to come out to his staunchly socialist parents. Maybe that’s why he doesn’t have time for what he calls the ‘pie throwing’ of Parliamentary politics.In this hilly ramble dow
The Sussex coast has been with Peter Kyle all his life. Growing up in Bognor, where Anita Roddick gave him the impetus to go back to school and on to university – to life as the MP for Hove, and shadow schools minister. In this ramble along his
You’re running for the biggest political job in the country - and you realise you’re not seeing enough of your family. In this latest walk, former Health and Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt explains how getting out into the Surrey Hills helped h
A quiet park in Brighton hosts our latest ramble with Green MP Caroline Lucas. It’s where she brought her dog to take stock during lockdown. She tells Ben how she’s come to appreciate nature much more mindfully than before - and why she thinks
During lockdown, Arundel and South Downs’ new MP Andrew Griffith walked the West Sussex hills near Pulborough to help process the extraordinary pressures of the job. In this week’s walk, he takes Ben back up those wooded paths – opening up abou
Come and discover the hilltops, woodland and seaside paths that help our MPs escape the political bubble, and made them the people they are today. Each week, an MP takes Ben Weisz for a walk and talk – rambling, in every sense of the word. T
Ben Weisz is joined by Kathryn Stanczyszyn and Ellis Palmer to look over the recent government announcements around cycling. Also, Paralympian Dame Sarah Storey chats road rage, former Copenhagen city architect Tina Saaby talks bike snakes and
Ben Weisz looks back over the first week of extended lockdown in Leicester through audio diaries of its residents and in conversation with BBC Radio Leicester's Tim Parker.Got a story for us? [email protected]
In the first Emergency Politix & Chill since the pandemic, Ben Weisz chats to BBC WM Political Reporter Kathryn Stanczyszyn and BBC Radio Oxford's Bethan Nimmo abouit the announcements that the government has made to help look after homless peo
This week Ben is joined by BBC Radio London's Susana Mendonça and BBC Radio Shropshire's Joanne Gallacher with only really one topic to talk about; the Coronavirus pandemic. Rachel Schraer from BBC Reality Check goes through some of the misinfo
Ben is joined by BBC Radio Oxford's Bethan Nimmo and BBC Radio Coventry & Warwickshire's Simon Gilbert to discuss the latest Coronavirus announcements, their new local MPs who are starting on their parliamentary journeys and a visit to the eco
Labour Party members are picking their next leader - we follow the candidates to Brighton, and talk buses, towns and Britney Spears with candidate Lisa Nandy. BBC Radio Tees's David Macmillan explores what went wrong for the Party in the North
Ben is joined by BBC Norfolk's Robby West and BBC WM's Kath Stanczyszyn to chat parish council meeting protests, floods and bullying. Claire Hamilton from BBC Radio Merseyside shares some 'scouse' with Ian Byrne MP ahead of Global Scouse Day. P
Ben is joined by BBC WM's Rob Mayor and BBC Radio Gloucestershire's Freya Lee to chat flooding, mayoral elections and Uber. We hear about a Lego training session for councillors in Walsall.And after a row about roundabouts in Kent - we set the
Ben is joined by BBC Radio Somerset's James Craig and BBC Radio Leeds' Kevin Larkin to chat HS2 and Coronavirus.Sam Ferguson talks about cookies on council websites. And as a cabinet reshuffle coincides with Valentines Day, a stellar cast of re
A sideways glance at politics across England with Ben Weisz.
As Brexit approaches, Ben is joined by BBC Radio Kent's Yetunde Yusuf and BBC Radio Merseyside's Claire Hamilton to chat about how the different areas are preparing for entering the transition phase, whilst also championing their local ports.BB
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