Sharp End - Season 2 / Year 2016

Season 2 / Year 2016

Episodes

January 18th 2016
Adrian Masters discusses job losses at Tata steel in Port Talbot with Assembly members Nick Ramsay, Bethan Jenkins and David Rees with special reports from Owain Phillips in Westminster and Andrea Byrne in Port Talbot

January 25th 2016
Presenter Adrian Masters is joined by Labour's Vaughan Gething, Suzy Davies from the Conservatives and Sam Gould from UKIP

February 1st 2016
Presenter Adrian Masters is joined by Green Party Leader Alice Hooker-Stroud, Eluned Parrott for the Liberal Democrats , Plaid's Simon Thomas and down the line from Westminster the Conservative MP Glyn Davies

February 8th 2016
Adrian Masters is joined by Labour's Alun Davies, The Conservative MEP Kay Swinburne,
Plaid's Helen Mary Jones and from Westminster Liberal Democrat MP Mark Williams.
This week the conversation turns to Europe, The Liberal Democrat Conference and the drive to get voters registered in time for the May Elections

15th February 2016
Adrian Masters proves that politics isn't just show business for ugly people with the help of attractive studio guests and an interview with a genuine Hollywood star -Welsh actor Michael Sheen. The latest Welsh Barometer poll shows growing support for UKIP and a lead for the Leave campaign in the EU referendum.

February 22nd 2016
Presenter Adrian Masters discusses whether the European Referendum will drown out the matter of who will govern Wales for the next five years? He's joined by studio guests while reporter Owain Phillips talks to MP's in Westminster.

February 29th 2016
Adrian Masters and guests discuss the UKIP Conference and the Wales Bill

March 14th 2016
Presenter Owain Phillips with guests Suzy Davies AM for the Conservatives and Assembly candidates Glyn Wise for Plaid and Labour's Dawn Bowden

March 21st 2016
Presenter Owain Phillips is joined by Neil Hamilton for UKIP, Bethan Jenkins AM for Plaid Cymru, Labour's Keith Davies AM and for the Conservative Party Antony Pickles.

April 4th 2016
On Sharp End this week, Adrian Masters is joined by Liberal Democrat Eluned Parrott , UKIP's Llyr Powell, Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth, Craig Lawton for the Conservatives and Julie Morgan for Labour.
The steel crisis overshadows the Assembly Elections and leads to a rare recall of members.

11th April 2016
Owain Phillips and his guests discuss the latest developments in the steel crisis, look at the results of an exclusive ITV Wales opinion poll and debate how their parties are faring in the Assembly election campaign

April 18th 2016
Presenter Adrian Masters and guests discuss steel which remains a big story despite the Election. Also on the agenda Welsh income tax, the latest on the Referendum campaigns and a look at the main issues in the South Wales West regional battleground.

April 25th 2016
Adrian Masters and his guests discuss an exclusive ITV Cymru Wales opinion poll, with the Welsh election just over a week away.

May 2nd 2016
Adrian Masters and guests discuss the looming election.

May 9th 2016
Adrian Masters is joined by a panel of guests looking forward to the new Assembly term.

May 16th 2016
Adrian Masters talks over the deadlock about who will become the next FM and discusses the forthcoming EU Referendum with our guests the Conservative's Angela Burns, Neil Hamilton for UKIP and former Welsh Government advisor Cathy Owens.

May 23rd 2016
Presenter Adrian Masters and guests discuss Europe, exciting events in the early days of the new term and the appointment of Liberal Democrat Kirsty Williams as Education Secretary.

June 6th 2016
Adrian Masters presents a special edition of Sharp End on the EU Referendum with an exclusive poll and six guests to discuss why they want to remain or leave the EU

June 24th 2016
Adrian Masters and guests discuss the results of the Referendum decision to leave the EU

July 4th 2016
Adrian Masters and guests survey the post Brexit landscape with findings from our latest poll.

July 11th 2016
In this week's Sharp End presenter Adrian Masters discusses with the panel the appointment of Theresa May as Leader of the Conservative party and the continued political turmoil within Labour.

July 18th 2016
Adrian Masters is joined by Adam Price AM, Julie Morgan AM and security expert Dr Bela Arora to discuss MPs' decision on equipping the Royal Navy with a new fleet of submarines armed with nuclear weapons. There are also reports on Theresa May's first visit to Wales as Prime Minister and the launch of Owen Smith's campaign to become Labour leader.

5th September 2016
Adrian Masters and his guests return from politics' summer break to discover it's like they'd never been away, with Brexit and the Labour leadership election. This week Adrian's joined from Westminster by Jo Stevens MP; David Melding AM and Professor Roger Scully are in the studio. Owain Phillips reports from Bosnia on a visit by Assembly Members to Srebrenica, 21 years after the massacre of Muslims during the civil war.

September 12th 2016
Join Adrian Masters for the latest edition of Sharp End . His guests this weeks are Assembly members Adam Price from Plaid , Darrren Millar for the Conservatives and Cathy Owens from Deryn Consulting

September 19th 2016
Owain Phillips chats to Assembly members Caroline Jones from UKIP, Nick Ramsay for the Conservatives and Lee Waters for Labour at the start of the Conference Party season.
This week we look at UKIP's Conference in Bournemouth and the Liberal Democrats Conference in Brighton with the latest from Adrian Masters.

September 26th 2016
On Sharp End this week, Adrian Masters brings us the latest from the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool while Owain Phillips brings us the latest on developments within UKIP in Wales

October 3rd 2016
On Sharp End this week, Adrian Masters brings us the latest from the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham while Owain Phillips is in Cardiff with Labour's Paul Flynn MP, Plaid Cymru's Rhun ap Iorwerth AM and Angela Burns AM for the Conservatives.

October 10th 2016
On Sharp End this week, presenter Adrian Masters discusses the new Shadow Cabinet, the Wales Bill and UKIP's difficulties in the aftermath of that altercation in Brussels

October 17th 2016
Presenter Adrian Masters this week is joined by Assembly members Suzy Davies, Neil Hamilton and Dai LLoyd and Jo Hunt from Cardiff University.
On the Agenda, Brexit and the departure of Dafydd Elis -Thomas from Plaid

24th October 2016
Owain Phillips is joined by Labour's Vikki Howells and Plaid Cymru's Adam Price, plus political commentator Gareth Hughes. They discuss the Brexit summit in Downing Street and the Plaid Cymru conference, where Leanne Wood ruled out seeking a coalition with Labour.

October 31st 2016
This week, Adrian Masters tackles the issues of the Wales Bill, the UKIP Leadership Contest and Home Secretary Amber Rudd's decision not to sanction a public inquiry into the clash between police and miners in 1984 at Orgreave,.
Guests this week are Mark Isherwood for the Conservatives, Julie Morgan for Labour and Simon Thomas for Plaid Cymru.

November 7th 2016
Adrian Masters previews the US Presidential election with his guests. They're Hannah Blythyn, a Labour AM who's been in America campaigning for Hillary Clinton; David Rowlands, a UKIP AM who's rooting for the Republicans, if not necessarily for their candidate; Denis Campbell, an American who moved into British politics as a Lib Dem Assembly candidate -and another exile from the United States, Spencer McKinney the fourth, who's a linebacker with the South Wales Warriors American football team.

14th November 2016
On Sharp End this week , Adrian Masters is joined by UKIP's Neil Hamilton, Plaid Cymru's Steffan Lewis and for the Conservatives Liz Simon. Topics include the latest on Brexit and that Trump/Farage relationship.

November 21st 2016
Sharp End this week is presented by Owain Phillips with guests Ann Jones for Labour, Neil Hamilton for UKIP and Darren Millar for the Conservatives.

28th November 2016
Adrian Masters is joined by Labour's Rhianon Passmore , Plaid Cymru's Llyr Gruffydd and UKIP's Mark Reckless. They discuss the legacy of Fidel Castro, Paul Nuttall's election as UKIP leader and the First Minister's warnings about the effect of Brexit on trade across the Irish Sea.

December 5th 2016
This week on Sharp End presenter Adrian Masters is joined by Assembly Members Jeremy Miles for Labour, Russell George for the Conservatives and former Assembly member Eluned Parrott for the Liberal Democrats.
Topics included the latest on Brexit, Pisa Results and a visit to the Senedd from speaker John Bercow.

December 19th 2016
Adrian Masters looks back at the political events of 2016 with his guests. He's joined in the Sharp End studio by Bethan Jenkins for Plaid Cymru, Eluned Morgan for Labour, David Melding for the Conservatives, Neil Hamilton for UKIP and the political commentator Gareth Hughes.
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