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Today: Election 2024: Manifesto week

Election 2024: Manifesto week

BBC Radio 4 - Today, Election 2024: Manifesto week

Manifesto week kicks off with the Liberal Democrats: we talk to Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper

Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats Daisy Cooper on the party's manifesto launch. Labour focus on nursery provision with Bridget Phillipson, while Chris Philp talks about the Conservative's plans for policing.  
President Macron calls a snap election in France after his Renaissance party is defeated in voting for the European Parliament, UNRWA's Director of Planning Sam Rose talks to us about the impact of Israel's operation to free four hostages over the weekend, while the broadcaster Chris van Tulleken and former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson pay tribute to the "immediately likeable" and "genuinely funny" Michael Mosley. 
A fluorescent dye could lead to an advance in the treatment of prostate cancer, the historian David Olusoga on a murder in the family, and Radio 2 DJ Jo Wiley and her daughter Coco on the generation-spanning appeal of Taylor Swift.

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