04/09/2012
John Humphrys and Justin Webb, discussing student visas with the head of London Met University, plus the Cabinet reshuffle and Keira Knightley on Anna Karenina.
Morning news and current affairs presented by John Humphrys and Justin Webb, including:
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More shops in towns and cities are becoming vacant, and the situation could remain for some time, according to a Local Data Company report published today. Liz Peace, chief executive of the British Property Federation, and Caroline Jackson, who used to own the Pink and Lilly clothes shop in Nottingham before it went bust in January, debate the findings of the report.
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Arts correspondent Rebecca Jones reports on a new film adaptation of Tolstoy's epic novel of love and loss, Anna Karenina, starring Keira Knightley, which is challenging the traditional idea of how to make a period drama.
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The European Court of Human Rights is hearing today the cases of four British Christians who say they have been discriminated against at work because of their faith. One of them, Gary McFarlane, who was sacked by a marriage counselling service because they said they could not be sure he would provide proper sex advice to gay couples, debates the issue with Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society.
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London Metropolitan University is challenging a ruling effectively banning it from taking students from outside the EU. The Today programme's Andy Hosken reports on a memo which suggests there was some confusion at the university as to what it was meant to do to monitor the status of the students. Prof Malcolm Gillies, vice-chancellor of the university, gives his reaction.
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Peter Riddell, director of the Institute of Government and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's political editor Nick Robinson discuss who is likely to win and lose in David Cameron's shuffle.
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