And on #TheLadder it's the doyenne of colour, who styles Queen Camilla's hair, Jo Hansford.

Olympic rower James Cracknell has some choice words on skulduggery in the Oxford v Cambridge boat race. @pennymordaunt.bsky.social & @jonashworth.bsky.social chat #WTF ; hereditary peer Viscount Colville tells me about the dramatic protest in the House of Lords in #TheThickOfIt

Plus: word of a fascinating new crowdfunding project to give hope to cancer sufferers; @frasernelson.bsky.social previews his column; Nadhim Zahawi analyses the chancellor's dilemma.

AND the amazing Lorraine Kelly on how she climbed The Ladder & how much harder she thinks it would be for working class Scots like her to get into TV today. Join me from 4 until 7.

PLUS @gmb.org.uk on growth (or lack of it); Labour MP Clive Lewis @clivelewis.bsky.social on looming welfare cuts; Olympian Imogen Grant on calls for the IOC to be greener; @frasernelson.bsky.social with a peek of his @thetimes.com column; @pennymordaunt.bsky.social & George Foulkes chat #WTF

AND after the shock second place in the german elections for the far right AfD, we'll hear from Beatrix Von Storch, the party's deputy leader, whose Nazi grandfather was found guilty of crimes against humanity. Join me from 4 until 7.

PLUS as international development minister Anneliese Dodds quits over Starmer aid cuts, Andrew Mitchell will give his analysis. We'll chat #WTF with Penny Mordaunt & @jonashworth.bsky.social

AND my guest on The Ladder is the brilliant Melissa Hamilton - the oldest woman to be promoted to principal ballerina at the Royal Ballet

Top diplomat Simon McDonald joins me to talk about a huge week of diplomacy ahead

Best-selling author Scott Turow talks about the campaign to combat the threat to creatives from AI

. @frasernelson.bsky.social on
chats through his @thetimes.com
column & @pennymordaunt.bsky.social
& @jonashworth.bsky.social
chat #WTF

PLUS I'll check in on the final day of the Church of England General Synod - the Bishop of Leeds Nick Baines tells me talk of an existential crisis in the church is overdone.