Sunday Morning for Sunday 12 May 2024

8:10 Rich Preston: UK Correspondent 

We’re joined by Rich Preston, Senior BBC foreign news journalist and presenter across BBC World TV and the BBC World Service. 

8:30 The Sunday Morning Quiz with Jack Waley-Cohen 

Quiz master Jack Waley-Cohen is back for another Sunday Morning quiz.  

Jack is the mind behind the questions on BBC quiz show ‘Only Connect’ which is known for being both difficult to crack and totally obvious.  

It’s Sunday morning, so wake up your brain and have a go!    

8:40 Sleep Position Secrets: How You Sleep Affects Your Health 

On your side, your back or your front – the position in which you nod off is having an impact on your health. 

Sleep scientist and body clock expert, Dr Kat Lederle joins us. 

9:10 Mediawatch 

Mediawatch this week looks at how pre-Budget announcements from the government are coming thick and fast - and making plenty of headlines.    

Also: a plan to save a local newspaper which might just help others stay alive - and an under-fire MP was pursued all the way to the Chatham Islands. 

9:40 Ashia Ismail-Singer: The Laden Table 

Ashia Ismail-Singer's family story has branches from Africa to India, the Middle east, France, the UK and New Zealand. Her beautiful cookbook, The Laden Table takes us on that journey with dishes from the places and cultures that make up Ashia’s extended family tapestry. 

Ashia joins us with an idea for a simple Mothers’ Day brunch. 

10:10 Eat yourself calm: foods that relieve anxiety 

Uma Naidoo, is a Harvard Nutritional Psychiatrist, professional chef, and nutritional biologist. She is also the Founder and Director of the first and only hospital-based Nutritional and Metabolic Psychiatry Service in the United States, at Massachusetts General Hospital and author of the bestseller This Is Your Brain on Food. 

In her latest book, Calm Your Mind with Food, Dr. Naidoo shows us how to effectively use food and nutrition as tools to calm the mind. 

10:30 GPS “jamming” hitting thousands of European flights 

With a reported 46,000 aircraft citing sat-nav problems over the Baltic Sea between August and March, suspected Russian GPS “jamming” is now being considered a major threat to air safety. 

Shawn Pruchnicki is a former airline pilot who's now a professor of aviation safety at Ohio State University. 

11:00 Suze Wilson: The Glass Cliff 

It's been nearly 20 years since the researchers, Michelle Ryan and Alexander Haslam, documented a phenomenon they called the glass cliff. This tendency for women leaders to only break through the glass ceiling when the organization is in crisis, making it more difficult for them to succeed. Recent examples include Stephanie Pope at Boeing and Linda Yaccarino at X (formerly Twitter). 

Dr Suze Wilson is a Senior Lecturer at Massey University’s School of Management. 

11:30 The headlines we didn’t read 

Mary Argue is back guiding us through the latest weird and wonderful headlines from the world of science. 

11:50 Josie Brennan: Fabric Celebrate 15 Years 

Fabric-a-brac is a fabric and sewing market that brings the sewing community together to buy and sell with all profits going to local hospices.  

Josie Brennan joins us to tell us more.