Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

Radio 4,30 Aug 2024,45 mins

The hospice funding crisis

The World Tonight

Available for over a year

Hospices say services are at serious risk of being cut because of a crisis in funding. A hospice caring for terminally ill people tells us it's planning to cut jobs - and beds. We ask whether, as well as money, the relationship between hospices and the NHS needs to change. Also tonight: A Labour MP, revealed by the BBC to be renting out flats with black mould and ant infestations, says he's profoundly sorry that tenants have been let down. We have the latest. Is Germany about to face fresh political upheaval? We look ahead to this weekend's crunch elections where the far-right is expected to surge. As Terry's the chocolatier provokes controversy among chocolate lovers by offering a version of its chocolate orange without the orange flavour, a food psychologist explains why it might still taste... orangey.

Programme Website
More episodes