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29/01/2016

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

3 hours

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Fri 29 Jan 2016 06:00

Today's running order


0650

Europe’s refugee crisis is a challenge Kenya has had to deal with for 25 years, as civil war in Somalia created what is still the world's largest refugee camp at Dadaab in the desert of north-eastern Kenya which is now home to 350,000 people. Alastair Leithead reports on the lessons learned from Somalia's great migrant crisis.

0655

More than 40% of teachers have had to deal with violent pupils in the last year, according to a survey by the Assocation of Teachers and Lecturers. Mary Bousted is general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers.

0710

Officials in Brussels are said to be closing in on a deal on one of David Cameron's key demands in his renegotiation of Britain's membership of the European Union. Speaking on the programme is John Redwood, former cabinet minister and member of Conservatives for Britain.

0715

NHS patients in England are to become some of the first in the world to benefit from publicly-funded pioneering hand and upper arm transplants. Professor Simon Kay is from Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and completed the UK’s first hand transplant in 2012.

0720

Care workers are still being asked to provide personal support for vulnerable people in 15-minute visits, according to the union Unison. Colin Angel is from the UK Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔcare Association.

0730

The EU has announced plans to target tax avoidance by multi-national companies - but how far is it prepared to go? Mishal Husain has been speaking to the commissioner for economic and financial affairs, former French finance minister Pierre Moscovici.

0740

How many performers know how much royalties they are meant to be paid? The Today programme has heard the story of one British musician whose widow has only just been told she will be paid for his part on Michael Jackson's Billie Jean - three decades after it was released. Tom Bateman reports.

0750

The Royal Navy's entire fleet of its most modern warships will have to be fitted with new engines because they keep on breaking down. Jonathan Beale is the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s Defence correspondent, and Admiral Lord West is former Labour security minister.

0810

Officials in Brussels are said to be closing in on a deal on one of David Cameron's key demands in his renegotiation of Britain's membership of the European Union. Katya Adler is the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s Europe editor and Nick Herbert is a Conservative MP who formed Conservatives for Reform in Europe.

0820

Care workers are still being asked to provide personal support for vulnerable people in 15-minute visits, according to the union Unison. We speak live to someone who has been a carer for the last five years, and Councillor Izzy Seccombe, leader of Warwickshire County Council and Community and Wellbeing Spokesperson for the LGA.

0825

Screaming Lord Sutch, the founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, is the subject of a new play by James Graham. Monster Raving Loony is currently in rehearsals and opens at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth next month - and our arts correspondent Rebecca Jones has talking to James Graham about it.

0830

Three to four million people could be infected with Zika virus in the Americas this year, the World Health Organization has predicted. Juliana Cano Nieto is Amnesty’s deputy director for the Americas.

0835

Former adviser to Ed Miliband Lord Wood says Labour failed to persuade the electorate that it had the right economic policies. Lord Wood joins us live in the studio.

0840

It is 52 years since Nelson Mandela stood in the dock in South Africa, charged by the apartheid regime. One of those charged alongside Mandela who is still alive is Denis Goldberg - Mishal Husain asked him what he remembers of that day.

0850

Mattel has launched a Barbie doll in three new body-shapes - which it calls tall, petite and curvy - in response to falling sales and longstanding criticism. Dr Agnes Nairn is author of Consumer Kids: How Big Business is Grooming our Kids for Profit and Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett is co-founder of the feminist blog the Vagenda.

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  • Fri 29 Jan 2016 06:00