At Lunch With...

Claire Read introduces her special podcast series about the impact of one day of the British army’s war in Afghanistan on the troops who were there and the families they left behind. Download the Deadliest Day series from the Beyond Today podcast.

For a long time, Becky Milligan has been dining out with political figures and recording the conversations for us. Here is a brand new At Lunch With…The Labour MP Clive Lewis. Becky Milligan took him out in his constituency in Norwich where they discussed him being cleared of sexual harassment charges by the Labour party, how being labelled the next future leader of his party was “a kiss of death” and why he uses a Parliamentary WhatsApp group as “therapy”. (Photo: Table setting Credit: BBC)

Becky Milligan invited one of the longest serving MPs in the House of Commons Dame Margaret Beckett to have lunch with one of the youngest MPs Ben Bradley. Find out what kind of conversation a Labour veteran and a budding-new Conservative sounds like. (Image: Cutlery on a napkin, credit: BBC)

Award winning naturalist and adventurer Steve Backshall is best known for presenting Deadly 60 on the BBC, where he meets the most dangerous animals on the planet. While filming his latest TV programme about dinosaurs, he talks to Becky Milligan about his little black book of secret reefs and caves, how blue a blue whale really is, and how often he thinks about going into politics (Photo:Table setting Credit: BBC)

She has had a remarkable political ascent; elected an MP in 2015 Angela Rayner is now shadow education secretary. Becky Milligan went to her constituency in Ashton-under-Lyne for the latest installment of her ‘At Lunch With’ series. The Labour MP discusses life growing up on a council estate, how being a carer changed her from being a rebel to respecting those in authority and how being told she could be a possible leader of the Labour Party feels "ridiculous... for now, but maybe one day". (Photo: Table setting Credit: BBC)