12/01/2016
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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What are gravitational waves and have they been discovered?
Duration: 03:13
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'Crushing decision' to jail ex-soldier in India
Duration: 01:17
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Sir David Attenborough on 70 tonne titanosaur
Duration: 01:31
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Madaya resident: Aid convoy ‘like a resurrection’
Duration: 01:24
Today's running order
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A 3000-year-old settlement dating to the end of the Bronze Age (1000-800 BC) is being excavated near Cambridge after being discovered by a local archaeologist. Duncan Wilson is chief executive of Historic England.
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David Cameron will appear before the Parliamentary Liaison Committee this afternoon and will be challenged over why he dropped £1billion in funding for carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology after saying in 2014 that CCS was ‘absolutely crucial’ for UK climate plans. Angus MacNeil is chair of the Energy and Climate Change Select Committee.
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Thousands of NHS patients in England face disruption because of a strike by junior doctors in their dispute with the government over pay and working hours. Sir Robert Francis QC specialises in medical law - he led the inquiry into the Mid Staffs Scandal and is a non-executive director of the Care Quality Commission.
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Where you were born has always been one of the key determinants of your life chances, but - according to new analysis by the social market foundation - it now matters much more than it did thirty years ago. Sanchia Berg has been to a school in Hull: a city which for many years has had some of the worst educational results in England.
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The Justice Secretary Michael Gove is to meet officials from the security company, G4S, today to discuss allegations of abuse at an institution it runs for young offenders. We hear from Mark Easton, the Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Â鶹ԼÅÄ editor.
0730
For the first time since October there will be some sort of breakfast this morning for those who live in the Syrian town of Madaya - at least for those residents who received a share of the emergency food supplies that the UN finally managed to bring in yesterday. Our correspondent Mike Thomson has been speaking to one man in Madaya about how it felt to finally see food arrive and we speak live to Julian Barnes-Dacey, Syria expert at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
0740
The unforgettable, self-consciously crafted images of David Bowie and all the characters he created were inseparable from his music. Nick Robinson has been speaking to a man who was an official photographer in the era of Ziggy Stardust and Aladdin Sane. Mick Rock directed the videos for some of Bowie's most famous tracks: Life on Mars, Space Oddity and Jean Genie.
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Analysis of school performance figures suggests the gap between those areas that are doing well and those that are doing badly has been getting bigger. A new cross-party commission into why that is and what can be done about it is launched today, headed by the former deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, who joins us live.
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Thousands of NHS patients in England face disruption because of a strike by junior doctors in their dispute with the government over pay and working hours. The Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Health editor Hugh Pym speaks with two striking doctors and we hear from Adrian Harris, medical director at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust.
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Later this month on Â鶹ԼÅÄ One, Sir David Attenborough will tell the story of the fossil discovery and reconstruction in Argentina of the largest known dinosaur, a new species of titanosaur. We are joined live by Sir David Attenborough.
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A court in India has sentenced 35 foreign and local sailors to five years in prison for illegally carrying weapons aboard a US-operated vessel into the Indian territorial waters. Ken Peters is director of Justice and Public Affairs at The Mission to Seafarers and Anne Towers is wife of Paul Towers, one of the six British sailors.
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How much will hospitals be affected by today's strike by junior doctors? The NHS has prepared for it by rescheduling some procedures but the centre-right think tank the Bow Group says the industrial action could cause hundreds of deaths. Speaking on the programme is Roy Lilley, an independent health policy analyst and former chairman of an NHS trust.
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New research out today is calling into question the commitment pledged by the government to take care of those who have served for their country during and after their time in the forces.Ìý It comes as Tory MP Johnny Mercer - a former army officer - submits a report to Downing Street calling on the Prime Minister to do more to make it easier for veterans to get medical help. Sima Kotecha reports.
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The Pope publishes his first book today. In it, he outlines his hopes for a "Roman Catholic year of mercy". Austen Ivereigh is biographer of Pope Francis.
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In a new essay, Gwythian Prins says that a historical analysis of the EU shows that Britain and continental Europe are each haunted by their own ‘ghost’. Gwythian Prins is emeritus research professor at the London School of Economics and Margaret Macmillan is professor of International History at University of Oxford.
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- Tue 12 Jan 2016 06:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4