The Today Debate: Do we need a Monarchy?
Mishal Husain is joined by a panel of guests in front of a live audience.
The Today Debate is about taking a subject and pulling it apart with more time than we could ever have during the Today programme in the morning.
Today presenter Mishal Husain was joined by a panel of guests in the BBC's Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House to look at the future of the Royal Family in 'The Today Debate: Do we need a Monarchy?'
Joining her were Billy Bragg, the singer and songwriter; Juliet Samuel, a columnist for the Times; Polly Toynbee, a columnist at the Guardian; Charles Moore, former editor of the Telegraph and the Spectator, biographer of Margaret Thatcher and Jason Arday, an academic who works on inequality, race and education.
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