Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,05 Aug 2026,59 mins

Former neo-Nazi withdraws as Tory council candidate

PM

Available for 24 days

Joshua Bonehill-Paine has withdrawn as a Conservative council candidate after a row over his extremist past. It comes on the same day as Tory leader Kemi Badenoch defended the decision to let him run for local office. We hear from a former Tory minister who says the row has damaged the party. Also on the programme: authorities in Germany are examining a drone fittted with explosives that was found at an airport near Leipzig. We hear why suspicion has fallen on Russia. Plus: why are smells from our past so evocative? A group of French scientists say they have found the link between memory and odour. But do their claims pass the sniff test?

Programme Website
More episodes