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01/10/2016

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

2 hours

Last on

Sat 1 Oct 2016 07:00

Today's Running Order

All subject to change:

0710

The Conservatives start their conference in Birmingham tomorrow and there are two policy announcements by the Government today to kick things off. BBC’s political correspondent Tom Bateman reports. 

0712

Hungary is holding a referendum today on whether they'd be prepared to accept a quota system for migrants if that's what the European Union decrees. Our Europe Editor Katya Adler reports from Hungary.

0715

Following the news that the UK government is to ban plastic microbeads in cosmetics by the end of 2017, a team of scientsts led by Oxford University has discovered proper evidence of the damage they can do. Dr Michelle Taylor is the lead author of the study.

0718

Donald Trump’s campaign have hired a UK-based company who worked on the Leave campaign to target ‘persuadable voters’. When every vote counts could a UK company engineer a Trump victory? Alexander Nix is the CEO of Cambridge Analytica.

0730

Recipients of the main sickness benefit who have long term health conditions that are not going to improve will no longer be tested to keep their benefit. Work and pensions secretary Damian Green made the announcement and Andrew Grantham has claimed Employment Support Allowance for seven years.

0740

On this week's Meet the Author, Jim Naughtie speaks to writer Alexander McCall Smith.

0750

Has abuse towards EU immigrants been on the rise since the referendum result? Last month the Polish ambassador raised concerns following the death of a Polish man in Harlow.  Adam Bodnar is Polish Commissioner for Human Rights.

0810

It’s been a week to forget for English football, which if you’ve been reading the Telegraph this week appears to be in desperate need for reform. Adrian Bevington is former Football Association executive and Pat Nevin is a retired Scottish footballer and former chairman of the Professional Footballers Association.

0820

Thanks to a local campaign, a substantial part of a stately home in North London that was used to spy on captured Nazi generals during the war is to be turned into a museum. Helen Lederer is a writer whose grandfather helped record and translate the generals and Helen Fry is a historian and author who has been part of the campaign since the start.

0830

Almost 100 days since the UK voted for Brexit and we are still no closer to understanding when the process of leaving the EU will begin, and what our relationship with the EU will look like as a result. Iain Duncan Smith is Former work and pensions secretary and Leave campaigner.

0835

The Scottish boxer Mike Towell has died in hospital after being hurt in a fight in Glasgow on Thursday night. BBC’s Boxing correspondent Mike Costello reports.

0845

When Britain leaves the EU it might want to think about reviving great traditional trade links that go back centuries before the invention of the Common Market – take Sherry for example. Our Europe correspondent Kevin Connolly reports.

0850

Researchers have restored the first known recording of computer-generated music, created in 1951 on a gigantic contraption built by the computer scientist Alan Turing. Professor Jack Copeland is director of the Turing Archive and restored the first known recording of computer music and Nemone Metaxas presents BBC 6 Music’s ‘Nemone's Electric Ladyland’.


Broadcast

  • Sat 1 Oct 2016 07:00