Sunday Supplement

Health Minister Mabon ap Gwynfor joins us for the first time in his new role. St Petersburg hosted its annual economic forum this week. IMI media group's Hadley Gamble went to Russia and tells us all about it. And what next for policing after Henry Nowak's murder? USW's Professor Christian Kaunert discusses. Only a few years since being made a baroness, Carmen Smith has put forward a bill to replace the House of Lords with an elected chamber. She explains why. HMS Erebus was launched from Pembroke Dock on June 7 1826. She disappeared on a polar expedition in 1848 not to be found until 2014. Dr Claire Warrior from Royal Greenwich Museums says what happened is still a mystery.
And in our series meeting new MS's, Paul Rock from the Greens is with us.

Guests include former Welsh government minister Lee Waters on the future of transport in Wales, political commentator and podcaster Lesley Riddoch and political scientist, Professor Sir John Curtice, on the future of the SNP after the Murrell crisis. Blair expert (he teaches a course on aspects of the Blair governments) and chief political commentator John Rentoul discusses the intervention by former PM, Sir Tony Blair, on the future of the party and Cold War historian Sergey Radchenko considers the political impact of a Russian drone hitting an apartment block in NATO country, Romania. And in the week when we've experienced record temperatures, Professor Bill McGuire looks at what the climate might be like in the 2050s. And in our regular series of introducing you to new politicians in the Senedd, we hear from Labour MS Shavannah Taj about the impact that her family and her teachers had on her politics

The new Plaid Cymru government's cabinet minister for enterprise, connectivity and energy, Adam Price joins us in the studio. As world leaders flock to Beijing for trade deals and better relations, we ask Development Reimagined's CEO, economist Hannah Ryder about the rise of China. As the selection process for candidates to the Makerfield by-election faces a few bumps, we discuss where things are with the campaign with the Liverpool Echo's political editor Liam Thorp. The Scottish first minister John Swinney is holding a vote on a motion on independence this week. Abbie Garton-Crosby from the National newspaper compares and contrasts the two different independence journeys of Wales and Scotland. And drinking in the House of Commons: Green MP Hannah Spencer wants it banned. Former Conservative chief whip Lord Hart of Tenby is with us with his view.
As we continue to meet new members of the Senedd, this week it's Sarah Cooper-Lessad's turn. She's Reform's shadow cabinet minister for children, young people and skills.

With Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting gunning for Sir Keir Starmer's job, Labour's Lord Peter Hain explains how his party got into such a bind. Plaid Cymru's first ever Welsh government has been formed. New culture and sport minister Heledd Fychan joins us in the studio. Reform gained 34 Senedd members in last week's election. Their leader Dan Thomas tells us his plans for the seventh Senedd. Where Reform succeeded, the Conservatives failed. Why? Former Conservative secretary of state for Wales Robert Buckland has ideas what went wrong, and how to put it right. And 100 years after the 1926 general strike came to an end, reader Stephanie Ward of Cardiff University reminds us how it all unfolded, and its significance.
Two new Senedd members join us to tell us all about themselves: married couple Gwyn Williams and Safa Elhassan, two of Plaid Cymru's three members for Gwyr Abertawe.

Plaid Cymru leader and prospective new First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth, Welsh Labour's new acting leader, Ken Skates, academics Richard Wyn Jones and Deian Hopkin, former SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford and two Senedd newbies, Reform's Joe Martin and Plaid Cymru's Kiera Marshall join us to discuss last Thursday's election result.