21/10/2014

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A paralysed man becomes the first in the world to walk again following a pioneering therapy which involved transplanting cells from his nose into his severed spinal cord. Tom Feilden reports.

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The Nigerian government had said it would secure the release of the 200 girls held by Boko Haram by today. Tomi Oladipo is the BBC's correspondent in Nigeria.

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Russia has denied that one of its submarines is in difficulty off Sweden. The Swedish military has been searching the seas off Stockholm since Friday following what they described as foreign underwater activity. They've now asked civilian vessels to evacuate the area. Frederic Karen is editor in chief of Svenska Dagbladet newspaper.

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One of the secrets of Dame Judi Dench staying so young, she says, is that she learns a new poem every day. Her father used to wake her up in the mornings when she was a child with a poem. Listener Toby Bridge from Warminster reading a short extract from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

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One of the biggest names in fashion for half a century, the American designer, Oscar de la Renta, has died aged 82. He had been suffering from cancer. David Willis is the BBC's Reporter in Los Angeles.

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A year ago a Dutch charity staged an operation in which men around the world showed they were prepared to watch a ten year old girl perform sex acts in front of a web cam. Researchers used the fake profile of a Filipina girl called Sweetie to pose in teen chat rooms. Thousands of men, including more than a hundred identified in this country, contacted the fake child. Today a man in Australia has become the first in the world to be prosecuted in connection with the sting. Angus Crawford reports.

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Hurricane Gonzalo, which battered parts of the Caribbean, will hit the UK on Monday night into Tuesday morning. On its current course, the storm is expected to make its first landfall in Northern Ireland and on northwest coasts of Britain in the middle of the night. Simon Partridge from the Met Office.

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A paralysed man has been able to walk again after pioneering treatment in which specialist cells from his nose were transplanted into his damaged spinal cord. The treatment - the first in the world - was carried out by surgeons in Poland in collaboration with scientists in London. Fergus Walsh reports

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Business news with Justin Rowlatt.

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Britain's crops of apples, carrots and peas will all be drastically reduced if the European Union goes ahead with plans to ban pesticides. That's according to a report commissioned by the National Farming Union, the Crop Protection Association and the Agricultural Industries Federation. Tom Heap reports.

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The battle for Kobane is still going on - a crucial battle because the town is on the border between Syria and Turkey and if ISIS manage to take control it will give them a huge strategic advantage. Karwan Zebari is the head of the Kurdish regional government mission to Washington.

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Listener Elinor Hamilton from Bolton reads a poem written by her father James Hamilton.

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Terrible crises have a habit of throwing up remarkable people who risk their own lives to help others. So it has been with Ebola. The doctors and nurses of charities like Medicin Sans Frontiere risk their own lives on a daily basis helping the victims. One of them, of course, was the British nurse William Pooley, who nearly died. He was infected in Sierra Leone, flown back to Britain, was treated here and survived. And now he's back there. Robin and Jackie Pooley are William Pooley's parents.

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We've been waking you with poems this morning. Inspired by Dame Judi Dench's comments that her father used to wake her with a poem and she now learns a poem every day which she credits with keeping her young. Christine de Luca is Edinburgh's Poet Laureate.

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The outgoing European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso has argued that Britain is better off in the EU and warned that alienating its allies would be a "historic mistake". David Cameron responded by saying that his "boss" was the British people and he would respond to their concerns on immigration. So where does that leave the party's Europhiles? Ken Clarke, former Chancellor and Home Secretary.

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A paralysed man becomes the first in the world to walk again following a pioneering therapy which involved transplanting cells from his nose into his severed spinal cord. Prof Geoff Raisman, Chair of Neural Regeneration at the Institute of Neurology, UCL, who led the UK research team and David Nicholls, founder of the Nicholls Spinal Injury Foundation which helped finance the research.

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This week we're looking at how people in Africa are changing the way they receive news and entertainment because of widespread changes in technology. In Nigeria, there are 24 million households with televisions, the highest number on the continent and more than double the amount in South Africa. It's also home to one of the most vibrant film industries in the world - known as Nollywood. Our correspondent Will Ross reports from Lagos.

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Listener George Boundy from Braintree in Essex reads an extract from 'The Thorn' by William Wordsworth.

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A report out this morning claims approaching EU restrictions on chemical pesticides could wipe out a variety of vital food crops - including apples, wheat, potato, peas and onions. The findings - put together by Andersen farm business consultants and commissioned by the NFU - are based in part on evidence from what's happened already. Hannah Barnes has been to Essex to see how existing EU pesticide bans have effected farmers.

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Listener Emma Gascoigne from Oxford reads 'They Flee From Me' by Sir Thomas Wyatt.

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Despite much publicised air strikes and the arming of Kurdish Peshmerga forces large areas of Iraq continue to fall to Islamic State militants. More than 80% of Anbar province, which lies just to the west of Baghdad, is under their control. It's feared that if provincial capital Ramadi falls the country's capital Baghdad, could follow soon. Mike Thomson has been speaking to a long-time resident of Ramadi called Mohamed Dlimi. He asked how likely he thinks it is that the city will fall to IS soon?

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Oscar Pistorius will learn later whether he will go to jail for shooting dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. The South African athlete is hoping for a non-custodial sentence. Andrew Harding reports.

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Nigel Farage has backed a new Ukip calypso theme tune sung by former Radio 1 DJ Mike Read in a fake-Caribbean accent that criticises political leaders for allowing "illegal immigrants in every town". David Lammy has criticised the "cod Caribbean accents" in the song. But is putting on such an accent necessarily racist? Many artists put on accents when they sing and if the tables were turned (for example a Jamaican putting on a Scottish accent) would it cause the same outrage? Why is it unacceptable for white people to sing in Trinidadian accents? Musa Okwong, poet and broadcaster and Diran Adebyo, novelist and cultural critic.

All subject to change.