Main content
29/09/2015
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Last on
Tue 29 Sep 2015
06:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
Clip
-
![]()
The painting that took 50,000 hours to create
Duration: 00:47
Tuesday 29th September
0650
Royal Dutch Shell has stopped Arctic oil and gas exploration off the coast of Alaska after ‘disappointing’ results from a key well in the Chukchi Sea. Is itoday's announcement a shift towards a greener future for Shell? Dr. Jeremy Leggett is chair of the Carbon Tracker Initiative.
0655
In his speech on Monday John McDonnell announced that Bob Kerslake, a former head of the civil service and permanent secretary at Department for Communities and Local Government, would be leading a review of the Treasury and Bank of England to check that the institutions are ‘fit for purpose’. We speak to Lord Kerslake about the announcement.
0710
Jeremy Corbyn will address delegates at the annual Labour Party conference in Brighton today. We speak to Lucy Powell, the shadow education secretary, live from Brighton.
0715Ìý
President Obama and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin opened their discussions on Syria and Ukraine in New York yesterday with a stony-faced handshake. Jon Sopel reports.
0720
Germany's Willkommenskultur, ‘welcome culture’, towards refugees has made international headlines. But as our Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill reports, anti-refugee sentiment is growing, particularly in the east of the country.
0730
Surgeons in London have used human embryonic stem cells to try to cure blindness in a patient. If successful the trial at Moorfields could be of huge significance to patients with Age Related Macular Degeneration, AMD, the most common cause of sight loss in the UK. We speak to Brian Naylor, who was diagnosed with AMD three years ago, and Pete Coffey, professor of cellular therapies at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and co-director of the study.
0740
Even before Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the labour party there were apocalyptic warnings of what this firebrand radical would do to the party. All we've had so far is some policy reviews and warm words about a new, kinder, more honest politics. So what are we to think? Sarah Montague finds out.
0750
Union officials say they'll begin talks this morning with executives of one of the UK's biggest steel plants, which is closing production. The Thai-owned firm, SSI, says seventeen-hundred jobs will go at the site at Redcar on Teesside. We speak to Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress.
0810
President Obama and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have met in New York. . US officials said they'd agreed to explore a political solution to the crisis in Syria, but disagreed on the future of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad. Nancy Soderberg is former US ambassador to the United Nations.
0820
Our political editor Laura Kuennsberg speaks to us ahead of today’s proceedings at the Labour Party conference in Brighton.
0825
NASA has found the clearest evidence yet that water flows on Mars. How significant is this, and does it mean we have to change our whole perception of life on other planets? We speak to Andrew Smith, , author of ‘Moondust’ about the men who have walked on the moon, and Monica Grady, professor of planetary and space sciences at The Open University.
0830
Companies with mixed gender executive boards produce better returns for shareholders than those run by all-male boards, according to new research. Why do mixed-gender boards perform better? Francesca Lagerberg is global leader for tax services at Grant Thornton, the company that produced the report.
0835
Rime Allaf, former advisor to the Syrian Opposition Coalition, discusses the viability of alternatives to the Bashar al-Assad’s leadership in Syria.
0840
It's said we live in an age of distraction. But why is it that some people seem able to concentrate? The artist Ben Johnson is for the first time showing off his life's work at Southampton City Gallery. One of his works took around 50,000 hours to complete. Deep concentration seems to come easily to him, as David Sillito reports.
0845
In his first party conference speech as Labour's leader, Jeremy Corbyn will claim that his values are shared by a "majority" of people in the UK. Steve Richards, political columnist for The Independent, and Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff, speak to us ahead of the speech.Â
All subject to change
Royal Dutch Shell has stopped Arctic oil and gas exploration off the coast of Alaska after ‘disappointing’ results from a key well in the Chukchi Sea. Is itoday's announcement a shift towards a greener future for Shell? Dr. Jeremy Leggett is chair of the Carbon Tracker Initiative.
0655
In his speech on Monday John McDonnell announced that Bob Kerslake, a former head of the civil service and permanent secretary at Department for Communities and Local Government, would be leading a review of the Treasury and Bank of England to check that the institutions are ‘fit for purpose’. We speak to Lord Kerslake about the announcement.
0710
Jeremy Corbyn will address delegates at the annual Labour Party conference in Brighton today. We speak to Lucy Powell, the shadow education secretary, live from Brighton.
0715Ìý
President Obama and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin opened their discussions on Syria and Ukraine in New York yesterday with a stony-faced handshake. Jon Sopel reports.
0720
Germany's Willkommenskultur, ‘welcome culture’, towards refugees has made international headlines. But as our Berlin correspondent Jenny Hill reports, anti-refugee sentiment is growing, particularly in the east of the country.
0730
Surgeons in London have used human embryonic stem cells to try to cure blindness in a patient. If successful the trial at Moorfields could be of huge significance to patients with Age Related Macular Degeneration, AMD, the most common cause of sight loss in the UK. We speak to Brian Naylor, who was diagnosed with AMD three years ago, and Pete Coffey, professor of cellular therapies at the UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and co-director of the study.
0740
Even before Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the labour party there were apocalyptic warnings of what this firebrand radical would do to the party. All we've had so far is some policy reviews and warm words about a new, kinder, more honest politics. So what are we to think? Sarah Montague finds out.
0750
Union officials say they'll begin talks this morning with executives of one of the UK's biggest steel plants, which is closing production. The Thai-owned firm, SSI, says seventeen-hundred jobs will go at the site at Redcar on Teesside. We speak to Frances O'Grady, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress.
0810
President Obama and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, have met in New York. . US officials said they'd agreed to explore a political solution to the crisis in Syria, but disagreed on the future of the Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad. Nancy Soderberg is former US ambassador to the United Nations.
0820
Our political editor Laura Kuennsberg speaks to us ahead of today’s proceedings at the Labour Party conference in Brighton.
0825
NASA has found the clearest evidence yet that water flows on Mars. How significant is this, and does it mean we have to change our whole perception of life on other planets? We speak to Andrew Smith, , author of ‘Moondust’ about the men who have walked on the moon, and Monica Grady, professor of planetary and space sciences at The Open University.
0830
Companies with mixed gender executive boards produce better returns for shareholders than those run by all-male boards, according to new research. Why do mixed-gender boards perform better? Francesca Lagerberg is global leader for tax services at Grant Thornton, the company that produced the report.
0835
Rime Allaf, former advisor to the Syrian Opposition Coalition, discusses the viability of alternatives to the Bashar al-Assad’s leadership in Syria.
0840
It's said we live in an age of distraction. But why is it that some people seem able to concentrate? The artist Ben Johnson is for the first time showing off his life's work at Southampton City Gallery. One of his works took around 50,000 hours to complete. Deep concentration seems to come easily to him, as David Sillito reports.
0845
In his first party conference speech as Labour's leader, Jeremy Corbyn will claim that his values are shared by a "majority" of people in the UK. Steve Richards, political columnist for The Independent, and Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff, speak to us ahead of the speech.Â
All subject to change
Broadcast
- Tue 29 Sep 2015 06:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4