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Fifty years on from the implementation of the 1965 Race Relations Act, what's changed in Britain?
The Act banned racial discrimination in public places and the law was later strengthened. But what has its lasting impact been on race relations, half a century on? An invited studio audience share their experiences with Phil Williams.

Dr Omar Khan from the race equality think tank the Runnymede Trust and academic Dr Nasar Meer from the University of Strathclyde discuss the findings of a new 91热爆 poll on race relations.
Leading human rights solicitor Sir Geoffrey Bindman - legal adviser to the Race Relations Board for a decade - explains the background to the legislation.

Sam King shares his experience of arriving in the UK on the Empire Windrush in 1948, the moment which marked the start of modern day mass immigration to Britain.

And Birmingham's former Poet Laureate Roy McFarlane gives his take on race relations in Britain in a performance poem.

Plus the latest on the severe floods affecting large areas of Cumbria & north Lancashire; the Eagles of Death Metal appear as support for U2 in their first Paris gig since last month's terror attacks; and astrophysicist Tim O'Brien answers listeners' questions on space and the universe.