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07/10/2014

Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 7 Oct 2014 06:00

Provisional running order

Subject to change

0720

Justin Rowlatt speaks to Lord Sugar on the 10-year anniversary of The Apprentice.

 

0725

Nobel Prize winner John O'Keefe has warned the UK government that policies on immigration and animal research are risking Britain's scientific standing. He speaks to Mishal Husain.

 

0735

Diane and John Foley - parents of James Foley, the US journalist who was held hostage and murdered by Islamic State – discuss whether Britain and the United States could change their approach to securing the release of hostages and the way they handle hostages' families.

0745

Mishal Husain speaks to batsman Kevin Pietersen about his dismissal from the England team and his relationship with other players.

 

0755

The surveillance watchdog has begun an investigation into whether police forces are using the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act to access journalists’ phone records. Lord Falconer, former Lord Chancellor, and Andy Trotter, former ACPO lead on media and social media, discuss.

 

0810

Sarah Montague speaks to former Guantanamo Bay detainee Moazzam Begg.

 

0820

Mishal Husain looks at whether the general election will engage voters in Glasgow as much as Scottish referendum.

 

0830

It has been more than a month since a report detailing large scale child sex abuse in Rotherham was published. Residents in the town say the atmosphere has been tense and that the relationship between the Muslim community and the white population has suffered. Sima Kotecha reports, before Sarah Montague speaks to 

Prof Ted Cantle - author of the Cantile Report in 2001after race riots in Bradford, Leeds, Oldham and Burnley that year.

 

0845

The only four remaining copies of the Magna Carta are to be displayed together for the very first time, to mark the document's 800th anniversary. We speak to Dr Claire Breay, Curator of Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts at the British Library

Broadcast

  • Tue 7 Oct 2014 06:00