麻豆约拍

Morning news and current affairs presented by James Naughtie and Justin Webb, featuring:

0810
British Crime Survey figures published this week show that the number of people taking drugs in England and Wales has fallen. 麻豆约拍 editor Mark Easton looks into the report, and chief executive of the charity Drugscope, Martin Barnes, provides some expertise.

0816
Anthony Loyd from The Times and Ghaith Abdul Ahad from The Guardian both give their accounts of the current situation on the ground in Aleppo, Syria's second city.

0822
93 year-old Charles Eugster tells the Today programme about being the world's oldest competitive bodybuilder. Professor Tom Kirkwood, associate dean for Ageing at Newcastle University, discusses whether we give in to old age too easily.

0831
The 麻豆约拍's Mark Simpson gauges opinion on the centenary of the signing of the Ulster Covenant and Kitty Usher, research fellow at the Smith Institute, and Neal Lawson of Compass, the Labour Campaign Group, debate how engaged politicians are with working class people.