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11/10/2014

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

2 hours

Last on

Sat 11 Oct 2014 07:00

Today's running order

0710
The world seems to have finally woken up to the reality that Ebola is a major disaster, and that we're playing catch-up with the disease. The Today programme's chief correspondent Mathew Price reports from Madrid and we speak to Umaru Fofana, a journalist in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

0715
Malala Yousafzai, the girls' literacy campaigner shot and seriously injured by the Taliban in Pakistan, was named the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize winner on Friday. We hear from Shaimaa Khalil, the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's correspondent in Pakistan.

0720
Douglas Carswell is all alone -- not outside parliament where there are plenty of UKIP people -- but inside parliament. What's it like being the only MP for your party? We speak to Caroline Lucas, the UK's only Green MP.

0730

European stock markets fell heavily on Friday and the euro was down against the dollar, hit by growing signs that the eurozone economy may be at risk from recession. Megan Greene, chief economist at the asset manager Manulife, analyses the current situation.

0740

Made in China but designed in California or Japan or Europe. That has pretty much been the story of China's economic rise for the past 30 years. Few if any of China's companies are considered innovative by global standards - and Nobel prizes for science remain frustratingly elusive. But China wants to be more than the factory of the world and its government knows it has to move on from a 'beg, borrow or steal' strategy on innovation if it is to keep growing its economy. Our China editor Carrie Gracie reports.

0750
The House of Commons is likely to recognise Palestine as a state for the first time on Monday as MPs debate a motion on its right to independence. The motion is being presented by Labour MP Grahame Morris, but his colleague Louise Ellman has tabled an amendment which predicates recognition on successful peace negotiations. We speak to them.

0810
Malala Yousafzai, the girls' literacy campaigner shot and seriously injured by the Taliban in Pakistan, was named the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize winner on Friday. We speak to Dr Fiona Reynolds, deputy chief medical officer at Children's Hospital in Birmingham and Ahmad Shah, a friend of Malala's family and head teacher of a school in the Swat Valley.

0820
Is it always a case of "if you don't ask you don't get" when it comes to the workplace? The boss of Microsoft recently angered women when he advised women not to ask for a pay rise but to have "faith in the system". Dr Heather McGregor, aka Mrs Moneypenny, the FT columnist, runs her own executive search business and Matthew Gwyther, editor of Management Today, discuss.

0830
The world seems to have finally woken up to the reality that Ebola is a major disaster, and that we're playing catch-up with the disease. Here hospital staff, ambulance workers and government ministers will take part in a national exercise simulating. We hear from Andrew Mitchell MP, former international development secretary.

0835
Bad news if you travel the world looking for countries where football isn' t played. A new Indian football league that kicks off tomorrow. French star Nicholas Anelka and Italian legend Alessando del Piero are amongst the players who have signed up for it. The English Premier League is already popular in some parts of the country - so will the Indian Soccer League conquer the rest of India? Rahul Tandon reports from Kolkata.

0840
The CPS has said that the broadcaster, Paul Gambaccini, will not be prosecuted following allegations of sex offences in the 1980s. The 65 year-old DJ said he'd suffered 12 months of trauma after being arrested by police from Operation Yewtree. We speak to the barrister Geoffrey Robertson.

0850
All this week, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 has been running a series called The Trouble With Brahms, and broadcasting concerts of the composers music, in Bristol. He's one of 'the three B's' (Bach, Brahms, Beethoven) and a superstar of classical music - yet one who doesn't sell. Why does Brahms divide classical music fans so much? Jessica Cottis, assistant conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tanne, opera critic of the Spectator magazine.

Broadcast

  • Sat 11 Oct 2014 07:00