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04/11/2014

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

3 hours

Last on

Tue 4 Nov 2014 06:00

Today's Running Order

Subject to change

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0630

The Liberal Democrat MP, Norman Baker, has quit as a ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Office minister, complaining that working under the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Secretary Theresa May was like "walking through mud". Norman Smith reports.

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0634

The new head of Britain's electronic spying organisation GCHQ has accused internet companies like Twitter and Facebook of being command hubs for terrorists. Rory Cellan Jones reports.

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0638

10 million people around the world have no nationality, according to the United Nations. Many of them because they were born in refugee camps. The UN Refugee agency is launching a campaign today to end statelessness within 10 years. Jim Muir reports.

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0645

A tribunal ruling is expected today which could land employers with a bill for backdated pay going back 16 years and amounting to hundreds of millions of pounds. We hear from Mike Cherry, chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses, as well as Jessica Learmond-Criqui, a lawyer specialising in employment and executive immigration.

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0650

Ebola audio diary by Dr Geraldine O’Hara.

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0710

Conservative MP Damian Green on Norman Baker’s resignation.

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0714

James Naughtie in Washington for the midterms.

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0720

A 16-year-old boy has been given a life sentence after he admitted murdering Leeds teacher Ann Maguire. William Cornick will serve a minimum of 20 years, with the judge saying he had shown a "chilling lack of remorse" and it’s β€œquite possible” he will never be released. We hear from Penelope Gibbs, a former magistrate, and Chair of the Standing Committee for Youth Justice.

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0725

Long-term shift work has an ageing effect on the brain that leads to an impaired ability to think and remember. We hear from Dr Philip Tucker, associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Swansea University, and part of the team that did the study.

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0730

The new director of the intelligence agency, GCHQ, has accused technology companies of being "in denial" about the misuse of the internet by terrorists and other criminals. We hear from Eve Galperin, global policy analyst at Electronic Frontier Foundation.Μύ

0743

Nick Robinson reports on Norman Baker’s resignation.

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0751

It’s been confirmed that Human remains found in County Meath at the start of last month were those of IRA murder victim Brendan Megraw, one of the 16 murder victims who became known as the Disappeared. We hear from his brother, Kieran Megraw.

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0810

We talk to Liberal Democrat MP Tim Farron about Norman Baker’s resignation.

0820

The second part of new ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Drama The Missing airs tonight. The opening episode of the eight-week drama was praised by critics, but also sparked a fierce debate with some viewers saying that the subject matter - a young child being abducted while on a family holiday abroad - made the series too distressing. We hear from television writer Lisa Holdsworth, and David Wilson, professor of Criminology at Birmingham University.

0830

The United Nations Refugee Agency is today launching a campaign to end statelessness within 10 years. We hear from Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

0840

Investigators are continuing their efforts to try to find out why a Virgin Galactic spacecraft crashed on Friday. We hear from Andrew Smith, author of "Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth".

0848

The Government has secured an agreement with landowners including Network Rail and the Highways Agency to restore meadows and grasslands near rail lines and roads in order to help bees and other pollinators. We hear from our Science reporter, Victoria Gill, and Matt Shardlow, the chief executive of Buglife, an organisation devoted to the conservation of all invertebrates.

0852

Great predators of the seas are breeding in 17 key areas identified round the coast of England and wales, a report says. Roger Harrabin reports.

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0855

Is there more to a cookbook than a simple collection of recipes? A new book called the β€œCookbook Book” catalogues a vast range of recipes published in cookbooks over the last 125 years. We hear from Tim Hayward food writer and one of the presenters on Radio Four’s Food Programme, and Jill Norman, writer and cook book editor and trustee of the estate of the cookery writer Elizabeth David.

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  • Tue 4 Nov 2014 06:00