This year, we've had a record 150,000 children homeless in England.

We'll be waking up homeless on Christmas morning, in cramped rooms, with nowhere to play,

and sometimes even having to share bathrooms with strangers.

This is not a home.

This is the heart-breaking reality, but it doesn't have to be this way.

Your donation to shelter could help a family find a safe place to call home.

Donate today at shelter.org.uk. Hello and welcome to the political party.

Today's guest is David Yelland, former editor of the Sun,

now host of a fantastic BBC Sounds podcast called Hits the Fan.

And someone who is really interesting talking about not just what it was like to be

editor of the Sun, but his relationship was Rupert Murdoch,

predominantly in a work sense and what direction came from above,

but also tabloid culture and how it compares to what we're seeing now with social media,

the influence of social media politically and whether that has its roots in tabloid culture

or whether it's something completely different and distinct.

And David tells a number of stories here he's never told elsewhere and they're fascinating. And it was only, I had to finish at a certain time recording

this and I was gutted because I just thought, could have carried on for another hour and it would

have been just brilliant. There's so much more I do want to ask him. So I hope I get the chance

again. But I obviously have to start with some self-promotion because on the 14th of December,

I'm doing my last tour date of the year at London's Blune Free Theatre.

That's this coming Saturday, the 14th of December.

If you're near a television on the 15th of December, or even if you're not, it's going to be on.

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