A 🧵 For the last 9 months I’ve been working on creating something with my husband. No, not our children. But a series of local colouring books. And we are mapping our way right across the U.K. https://t.co/tZ7Bug3cJn began in our own neighbourhoods of Brixton and Herne Hill in

"Mistakes were made by the last government." Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp is challenged by @EmmaBarnett over the previous Conservative government's record on asylum hotels. #R4Today

"If it's not hotels, what is it?" @Emmabarnett asks Security Minister Dan Jarvis how the government will fulfil its pledge to end the use of asylum hotels by 2029. #R4Today

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The UK has appointed its first female Astronomer Royal in the post's 350-year history. Prof Michele Dougherty says she hopes her appointment will help young girls see 'someone who looks like them in a role like this'. #R4Today

Is Keir Starmer's plan to recognise a Palestinian state a case of 'gesture politics'? @Emmabarnett asks Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander, who says such criticism is 'just not true'. #R4Today

“Yesterday, the Israeli Prime Minister suggested Donald Trump should receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Should he?” @Emmabarnett asks Nick Thomas-Symonds, the Minister for Cabinet, Constitution and EU relations, if the US President should receive the prestigious award. #R4Today

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"I don't want to think of myself as associated with somebody like that." Actor Jesse Eisenberg accuses Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg - who he played in The Social Network - of 'doing things that are problematic'. #R4Today

Listen to the whole interview on @BBCSounds https://t.co/t54Y3FBzQB

A senior coroner warned last month about the 'risks of suicide' associated with antidepressants after the death of Thomas Kingston. His parents Jill and Martin speak to @EmmaBarnett about their son, and call for reforms around prescribing the types of SSRIs he'd taken. #R4Today

"What does being friendly mean? We're not mates in a pub. Can you commit to something?" @Emmabarnett presses Reform UK leader Nigel Farage on what he would like to see in a relationship between the EU and UK post-Brexit. #R4Today

Exclusive - the parents of Thomas Kingston are speaking for the first time since their son killed himself. The 45 year old husband of the king’s second cousin, Lady Gabriella Windsor, had been prescribed anti depressants & then stopped taking them. Listen to @BBCr4today now if

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"We're in crisis... It's not just a London problem. It's not just a black and brown problem. It's not just a male problem." Idris Elba tells @emmabarnett the knife crime crisis is 'countrywide'. #R4Today

"You can still cut your food without the point on the knife." Actor Idris Elba tells @Emmabarnett the ends of kitchen knives could be rounded to tackle a ‘crisis in knife crime’, ahead of a new BBC documentary. #R4Today

'The fact that Ivor still can’t share it all, will haunt me for a long time. That is how bad the Holocaust really was. Sometimes what is unsaid should frighten us the most.' @Emmabarnett on meeting Holocaust survivor Ivor Perl BEM in @theipaper

"I keep thinking to myself, here we go again." Ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jewish Holocaust survivor 92-year-old Ivor Perl tells @emmabarnett there have only been five or six years of his life he has not felt antisemitism. #R4Today

"I never saw them again." Eighty years on from the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Holocaust survivor Ivor Perl speaks to @Emmabarnett, reflecting on the moments that saved his life, and the final time he saw his mother. #R4Today

Andy Malkinson, who spent 17 years in jail for a rape he did not commit, has welcomed the resignation of the chair of the miscarriages of justice review body. But he reveals to @justinonweb that he's still not received any compensation from the government. #R4Today