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03/10/2015

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

2 hours

Last on

Sat 3 Oct 2015 07:00

Today's running order


0710

President Obama has described Russian air strikes in Syria as a recipe for disaster which will only strengthen Islamic State militants. We hear from our defence correspondent, Jonathan Beale, and Sarah Rainsford, our Moscow correspondent.

0715

Nine pupils and staff were shot dead in a community college in Oregon yesterday. James Cook has been reporting.

0725

Catholic Bishops and campaigners are gathering in Rome today ahead of the Synod on the Family, which starts tomorrow. Our religious affairs correspondent Caroline Wyatt reports.

0730

Michael Gove is planning to grant more autonomy to prison governors - but what would they do with this new freedom? We speak to Mark Icke, vice president and national officer at the Prison Governors' Association.

0740

The 26-year-old gunman who opened fire in a community college English class, killing nine, was an army boot-camp dropout who studied mass shooters before becoming one himself.Ìý We speak live to Piers Morgan.

0750

The Government has said it wants to extend airstrikes on the Islamic State group to Syria, but will only seek a vote in the House of Commons if it thinks a majority of MPs will back the action. John Baron is Conservative MP and member of the foreign affairs select committee and Jo Cox is Labour MP for Batley and Spen.

0810

The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says three of its staff have been killed and another thirty people are unaccounted for after its clinic in the Afghan city of Kunduz came under aerial attack.ÌýSpeaking on the programme is Emal Pasarly, Â鶹ԼÅÄ correspondent in Afghanistan, and Dr Bart Janssens, director of operations at Médecins Sans Frontières.

0820

Four of Fifa’s leading sponsors, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Visa and Budweiser, have demanded that the president, Sepp Blatter, step down immediately in the face of an ongoing corruption crisis. Greg Dyke is chairman of the Football Association and Jonathan Calvert is editor of the Insight team at the Sunday Times, and author of The Ugly Game: The Qatari Plot to Buy the World Cup.

0825

Bruce Robinson, the writer and director of the cult British comedy film Withnail and I, has spent the last 15 years writing They All Love Jack, a study of Jack the Ripper which dismisses most of the ‘Ripperology’ that's gone before it and suggests its own prime suspect. Our reporter, Nicola Stanbridge, talked to him.

0835

President Obama has described Russian air strikes in Syria as a recipe for disaster which will only strengthen Islamic State militants.Ìý We hear from Jeremy Bowen, our Middle East editor, and Sir Andrew Wood, associate fellow in the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House and ex-British Ambassador to Russia from 1995 – 2000.

0845

Earlier this week, Terry Eagleton wrote a rather unfavourable review in the Guardian of Douglas Hurd's new book about the Queen. We speak to Jenni Russell, columnist for the Times & Evening Standard, and Alex Clark, book reviewer for the Guardian.

0850

England's Rugby World Cup could very well be over by this evening if they fail to beat Australia at Twickenham. We speak to Matt Dawson, England Rugby World Cup 2003 winner, and David Lyons, a former Australia player.

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All subject to change.

Broadcast

  • Sat 3 Oct 2015 07:00