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Morning news and current affairs presented by John Humphrys and Justin Webb.

0750
The morality of paying taxes re-entered the public debate last week when MP David Gauke said paying tradesmen cash in hand was 'immoral'. How does Britain's history inform our views on taxation today? Dr Angie Hobbs, Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Warwick and Stephen Glover, columnist for the Daily Mail,discuss.

0810
Battles between President Assad's forces and rebels are continuing in the Syrian city of Aleppo. Activists say many people have died in shelling and helicopter gunship attacks. Shashank Joshi is associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a defence think-tank in London, and a doctoral student of international relations at Harvard University.

0818
We've commissioned our own Olympic review from the author Lynne Truss. Was she won over by Danny Boyle's vision of Britain?

0821
Four years ago in Beijing Great Britain won 47 medals including 19 Golds and came fourth in the medals table. Liz Nicholl, chief executive of UK Sport, looks at what we can expect from the London games.

0831
There were sheep, a cricket game, nurses, Maypoles, an industrial revolution, and James Bond. But what was the opening ceremony trying to say about Great Britain? Was it a depiction that the British people themselves would recognise? What will people around the world think of us after seeing it? Frank Cottrell Boyce, screenwriter and novelist and part of the small team that helped Danny Boyle come up with ideas for the opening ceremony and he wrote the script for the ceremony, classicist Prof Mary Beard, classicist and Times columnist Giles Coren, review the ceremony for the Times.