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As the UK began voting in the General Election, we focused on stories beyond Westminster.

Can Joe Biden carry on? Justin Webb hears a Democratic donor who feels the White House needs to be more transparent about the President's health. We also heard from the aftermath of the first round of voting in France, where the far right are picking up support in the city of Marseille.

And a moving interview by Emma Barnett with Simon Boas, a 46 year old former aid worker who has greeted a diagnosis of terminal cancer with unusual frankness and optimism. Now in his last weeks of life, Simon wants death to be discussed far more openly and frequently. That prompted a discussion on the programme with the psychotherapist Julia Samuel and Cariad Lloyd, host of the popular podcast about death and grief, Griefcast.