5 Live News Specials

Listen back to the moment Boris Johnson made his first speech as prime minister in the House of Commons.You will also hear the response from MPs, including Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn and newly elected Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson. Following the debates, 5 Live's Emma Barnett and BBC Deputy Political Editor John Pienaar give their analysis.

Relive the moment Theresa May gave her last speech as prime minister and Boris Johnson gave his first. 5 Live's Anna Foster was outside Downing Street with political correspondent Nick Eardley.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson: How does that make you feel?Are you energised? Are the guy ropes off? Is he the man to get the job done?5 Live's Nicky Campbell hears from callers.

As the country sizzled on one of the hottest days of the year – the heat was turned up on Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt.The pair had been battling it out to win the Conservative leadership contest, and ultimately, become the UK’s next prime minister.Mr Johnson beat Jeremy Hunt comfortably, winning 92,153 votes to his rival's 46,656.On College Green outside the Houses of Parliament, 5 Live’s Emma Barnett spoke to Conservative MPs, supporters and callers from around the UK, to get their reaction.

5 Live's Laura Whitmore meets Melinda Gates - one of the world’s most powerful women. She’s a former general manager at Microsoft, co chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a philanthropist who has helped award grants worth more than 50 billion US dollars to organisations and individuals in 139 countries. We invited an audience of women along to speak to her - all with their own inspirational stories. They spoke about careers, equality, family, society, charity work and much more.

In the autumn of 1962, US president John F Kennedy laid out his ambition for the USA to put the first man on the moon. At the time, it seems, Kennedy already had in mind one particular individual who he wanted to be involved in what he described as "the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked". His administration had handpicked a young aeronautical engineer and test pilot from the US Air Force named Ed Dwight Jr to become the first African-American astronaut. Dotun Adebayo speaks to Dwight about his thoughts at the time, space exploration and why after Kennedy’s assassination, Dwight was unable to fulfil the president's ambition.

Andy Woodward was a promising young footballer at Crewe Alexandra when he was groomed and sexually abused from the age of 10 to 16 by the club's youth coach Barry Bennell.In 2016 Andy Woodward decided to go public with his story and in February last year Bennell was jailed for 31 years - but the effect on Andy's life and his family has been profound. He tells his story to 5 Live's Nihal Arthanayake.

To mark D-Day, BBC Radio 5 Live honours some of Britain’s Homefront heroes – the people who made the invasion possible without being on the front line.Chris Warburton has been finding out about the young Bletchley Park code-breaker Mavis Batey, the weather forecaster Group Captain James Stagg and the extraordinary Spanish double agent known to his handlers as Garbo.The podcast is introduced by 5 Live Breakfast's Rachel Burden and Nicky Campbell.

Nihal Arthanayake gets rare behind the scenes access to one of the most secretive establishments in the UK - the Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory - which many of us know as Porton Down. It was here that the nerve agent that poisoned Russians Sergei and Yulia Skripal last year was identified as Novichok.He looks at the extraordinary range of things that happen at the DSTL - everything from police work to the armed forces, and new ways to prevent diseases that kill millions of people around the world.

What can be done to stop young people from being stabbed on our streets?We tried to get some answers to that question by focusing on one particular story, that of Quamari Serenkuma Barnes, who was stabbed to death outside his school gates in London when he was 15.Quamari had never been involved in gangs or violence. His family and friends share their thoughts on how we can combat the growing problem of knife crime in the UK.The Office for National Statistics says almost 41 thousand incidents involving knives or sharp instruments were reported in England and Wales in 2018 - an increase of six per cent on the year before.

Vicky McClure’s grandmother, Iris, lived with dementia. Now Vicky wants to break myths around the condition and she’s been part of an incredible BBC documentary called 'Our Dementia Choir' that looks at how powerful music can be to help people with the condition, and their families. She and Nihal are joined by some experts, Chris, who has dementia, and his wife Jane. It's a condition that already affects 850 thousand people in the UK - and the Alzheimer's Society say that number will rise to more than a million in the next 6 years.

The latest after more than 200 people were killed and 450 injured in co-ordinated Easter day attacks on churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka.

BBC Radio 5 Live made a decision to find a way of hitting home the importance of talking about mental health, because every 90 minutes a life is lost to suicide. It is the biggest killer of men under 50 in the UK. So across one day on the station, we heard listeners’ stories of people affected by suicide. Stories of pain, of hope and the power of talking. If you have been affected by the issues in this programme, please visit bbc.co.uk/actionline for details of organisations that can offer you support and advice. If you would like to speak to someone, please call the Samaritans on 116 123.

Simon King and Clare Nasir look back on the weird weather of 2018 - revisiting the 'Beast from the East' and our unusually scorching summer.

For many, Christmas is for spending time close to loved ones. But in 1968, astronauts Frank Borman, Bill Anders and Jim Lovell would spend their Christmas Day further away from home than any human had ever done before.With the help of archive material, former NASA employees, author Robert Kurson and the astronauts themselves, Anna Foster remembers the Apollo 8 mission on its 50th anniversary.The mission was everything to Apollo 8 commander Frank Borman. For him, beating the Soviets in the space race and the safety of his crew were paramount. William Anders was the rookie of the crew. Bill had never been to space before, and he was excited to document and remember every last second of the experience. In new interviews, they share their memories, the mission and its legacy with Anna.In the year leading up to the flight, America had faced some of it’s toughest times. The Vietnam war appeared unwinnable, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy were murdered and riots broke out on streets across the country. The Ame

Presenter Laura Whitmore, like many Millennials, is beginning to question what she believes in. Is she still the Catholic she was brought up as? Over the course of this documentary she goes on a journey of discovery to find out if she is losing her religion, and if so, can she find what else is out there? Laura speaks to those with faith about their beliefs, and to young people who claim to have no religion to see how they are now finding their spirituality elsewhere.

At the beginning of 2018, BBC Radio 5 Live decided to be the station that shone a light on Spoken Word. To highlight the huge wealth of young talent currently in the UK - the experiences they go through every day and crafting that into beautifully, honest reflections of their world. We focused on some of big news stories and talking points ranging from poverty to mental health, knife crime to Brexit and the Royal Wedding to the FA Cup Final and asked some of the UK’s emerging and established artists to write about how they see these stories. To look back on our Year in Spoken Word, Afternoon Edition's Nihal Arthanayake invited poet and musician Hussain Manawer and author Chidera Eggerue to review our past 12 months.

Writer, performer and care leaver Lemn Sissay looks into attitudes to children in the care system.

The prime minister took calls from listeners in a special 5 Live programme presented by Emma Barnett. She was asked whether she had a plan B if MPs vote against her Brexit deal, the situation with Gibraltar and whether she'll be sending Jacob Rees-Mogg a Christmas card.

Anna Foster is joined in Sunderland by a host of celebs, experts and an audience - for the UK’s biggest conversation about the nation’s sex life.How to do it well, and how to talk about it healthily. From STIs and health, using porn to sex ed in schools, consent to cheating, good sex, bad sex and how we can all become a bit more open and confident when it comes to our sex lives.