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There's been progress in peace talks between Gaza and Israel according to both Israeli and Hamas sources. Discussions in Qatar's capital, Doha, are 90 per cent complete according to a senior Palestinian official, and a deal could be arranged within days.

Also in the programme: Letters between Countess Mountbatten and the first prime minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, are at the heart of a very current political row in India; and what did our medieval forebears eat at this time of the year?

Joining Gary O'Donoghue to discuss this and more are Gaia Vince, British environmental journalist and author, and Fola Aina, an international security and development policy expert affiliated to SOAS at the University of London.

(Photo: Palestinians look on, at the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, 22 December 2024. Credit: Reuters/Ramadan Abed)