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The February episode demonstrates we are nothing if not eclectic in the subjects that our panellists choose to discuss.

From the lessons to be learned from an important review of child protection and teenaged knife crime – commissioned following the spate of youth murders in Croydon in 2021 – to praise for a local MP (yes, really), through to Croydon’s central part in the first translation of the Bible into Welsh, our panel go behind the headlines to delve into the real context of recent reports.

Inevitably, they also discuss the borough’s bankruptcy and related issues around homelessness, too.

This month’s panel includes Minster historian David Morgan, local broadcast journalist Cheryl Fergus-Ferrell, Emma Gardner, the director of the South Norwood Community Kitchen, and making their debut on the programme is community youth worker Neil Chamroo.

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