29/05/2013
Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and Evan Davis, including the Afghan detentions debated, plus is obesity nature or nurture and what's in a ready meal lasagne?
Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and Evan Davis, including:
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Obesity may have as much or more to do with your genes as your lifestyle. Dr Sadaf Farooqi, director of the new Metabolic Diseases Unit at Cambridge University, and Sian Porter, a dietician and speaks for the British Dietetic Association, discuss the progress that is being made in the area of obesity and whether it is as much down to nature as it is to nurture.
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British forces are detaining up to 85 Afghan nationals in a holding facility at Camp Bastion, in what could amount to unlawful detention and internment, documents obtained by the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ suggest. Phil Shiner, a lawyer acting for eight of the detainees, outlines the predicament that the Afghanis are in. and Defence Secretary Philip Hammond gives his view on whether the detentions legal under the UN mandate.
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On 29 May 1913, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring was played for the first time in Paris and the shock of the new sound that a riot started in the theatre. Angela Dixon, head of music at the Barbican in London, and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's arts editor Will Gomopertz discuss whether any art has the capacity to shock to the same extent today.
Last on
A rundown of stories from Wednesday 29 May including programme highlights and comment.
Clips
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What's in your lasagne ready meal?
Duration: 05:46
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The story behind the dissection of a British cow
Duration: 05:16
Broadcast
- Wed 29 May 2013 06:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4