BBC Radio 4 - The Briefing Room

BBC Funding

With BBC funding under pressure, how might alternatives to the licence fee work?

Prices are soaring. Inflation is at a 30 year high. How worried should we be?

Weighing up the costs and gains for the UK and Europe a year after Brexit.

Could space be the next frontier for conflict? And what would it look like?

Russian troops are amassed close to the Ukrainian border - what's happening and why?

From insurgency to government - the challenges for the Taliban and the west.

Where do Covid variants like Omicron come from? And what makes a variant dangerous?

As parts of Europe struggle to contain Covid cases we ask what that means for them and us.

With an energy shortage and growing debts, is China's economy in trouble?

Long neglected by many governments, what do the new proposals for social care mean?