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After days of negotiations, US president Donald Trump announced this week that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of his peace plan for Gaza.
The first step expected on Monday would see the release of all 20 living Israeli hostages in exchange for around 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,700 detainees from Gaza.
Increased amounts of aid will also enter the Strip. But will it be the start of a lasting peace. Audrey talks to Middle East negotiator and expert Oliver McTernan and to Israeli journalist Allison Kaplan Sommer.

The mediaeval concept of sanctuary came to the fore at a Church in Manchester in the 1980’s. A new ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ podcast tells the story of how a Sri Lankan asylum seeker lived in the vestry of an Anglican Church for more than 2 years before police broke in, dragged him out and deported him. Producer Ciaran Tracey tells Audrey how the extraordinary story played out and how a communist atheist and an Eton educated Vicar formed an unlikely bond.

And as Taylor Swift’s new album is launched, one minister tells us how going to her concert is like a pilgrimage that helped save his soul.