An Ascot man has co-hosted two new episodes of a podcast from The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, speaking with celebrity guests including BBC journalist Clive Myrie.

Craig Barter, 22, co-hosts the bonus episodes of Navigating Now along with narrator Elsie, 16, and two other young people.

The episodes follow on from a first season launched successfully last year as a co-creation between seven Duke of Edinburgh's Award participants aged 14 to 24 and award-winning production company Mags Creative.

Mr Barter was also a host for the first season, which received an ARIAS award nomination.

The hosts tackle two big questions per episode across topics from politics to social media, as well as hearing the views of celebrities and experts.

In the first new episode, Mr Barter, who bagged his Gold Duke of Edinburgh's Award at Ranelagh School in Bracknell, examines the cost-of-living crisis and the pressures of adulthood with chef Matt Tebbutt.

In the second new episode, Mr Barter and his fellow hosts discuss global concerns and how to know which news sources to trust with BBC chief news correspondent Clive Myrie.

During the episode, Mr Myrie said: "If you don’t make your voice heard ... no one’s necessarily going to go to you and say, well, what do you think?

"You need to get out there and get across your opinion.

"You are the future, and if you’re not looking after this earth and the people in it, who’s going to?"

The discussions in Navigating Now are informed by Youth Voices 2024, a research study of more than 3,000 young people across the UK published by the Duke of Edinburgh's Award last month.

The study found that cost of housing, the NHS, cost of living, and mental health are the most important political issues for young people ; that young people feel disconnected from the political system; and that young people feel that politicians don’t listen to people their age.

Navigating Now is available on all major podcast platforms.