'The changes that I've seen as a five-year-old to now… we've done tremendous progress.' Presidential historian Alvin Felzenberg says 'with all its faults' America's values are aspirational globally - but admits they are now 'controversial'.

Good morning. Come and join us for Friday's Breakfast @BBCRadio3 - Christopher Purves sings Handel, Charles Trenet & Irene Poldowski set Verlaine, Holst, inspired by folksongs writes a quartet, a Bach Brandenburg, Elgar's Apostles, and by request, more of Geoffrey Burgon's music.

Good morning! Thanks for tuning in. I’m here in the Courtyard San Damaso, where I and the Papal Foundation are preparing to meet with the Holy Father. Tomorrow I leave to visit the refugees from Ukraine, I’ll keep you posted.

It's for notices like this that I read the Register in The Times

A reminder - in difficult times - be generous… C.S. Lewis and a friend were approached by someone on the street. Lewis emptied his wallet. His friend said, “Don’t you know he’s just going to squander all that on ale?” Lewis replied,“That’s all I was going to do with it.”

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