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06/02/2016

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

2 hours

Last on

Sat 6 Feb 2016 07:00

Today's running order


0705

A powerful earthquake has struck Taiwan, collapsing buildings and trapping residents. John Sudworth is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s correspondent in Beijing.

0710

Organisations that are given government grants are to be banned from using the money to try to persuade ministers to change the law or increase spending. Alan Soady is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s Political correspondent.

0715

Up to 20,000 Syrians are stranded on the border with Turkey after escaping a major Russian-backed regime offensive near Aleppo where a new humanitarian disaster appears to be unfolding. Mark Lowen reports from the Turkey/Syria border.

0720

MPs have backed a move to update the 130-year-old system for compensating the victims of riots in England and Wales. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s parliamentary correspondent Mark D'Arcy reports. Μύ

0725

Nick Robinson grilled Justin Webb and Evan Davis on Friday morning's programme about whether there is a limit to how much they were willing to spend at the vets to mend their beloved dogs. But perhaps there's a more serious element to this - is there a temptation for vets to perform treatments that extend the life of a pet but create suffering for the animal? Dr Bradley Viner is president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.

0730

Donald Trump still believes he is leading the Republican field in the New Hampshire primary in the United States, only three days away. The contest is full of passion because the candidates know that on the long road to the party presidential nomination in the summer this is where reputations can be made and lost. James Naughtie is there, and he has been with the man who thinks his moment may have come.

0740

Our vision of the English pastoral landscape owes a lot to the work of the 18th century landscape gardener Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, and today is the anniversary of his death. Steve Porter is head of Gardens and Landscape at Chatsworth in Derbyshire.

0750

A lawyer representing the Swedish woman who says she was raped by the Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, has condemned as insulting and offensive the findings of a UN Panel which says he should be compensated for being "arbitrarily detained" by Britain and Sweden. Edward Garnier is former Solicitor General and Lisa Longstaff is co-founder of Women Against Rape and an Assange supporter.

0810

Up to 20,000 Syrians are stranded on the border with Turkey after escaping a major Russian-backed regime offensive near Aleppo where a new humanitarian disaster appears to be unfolding. Speaking on the programme is Dalia Al-Awqati, Mercy Corps director of programmes for North Syria and Ahmad, a 26 -year-old who fled Syria last year and is now living in Surrey.

0820

The 23rd of June 2016 is a significant date because it's expected to be the day of the referendum on whether the UK remains in or leaves the European Union. But it's also when hundreds of thousands of music fans will be in a Somerset field for the Glastonbury music festival. We asked the Guardian journalist and writer John Harris to curate an impartial EU referendum mixtape for the festival, with Side A including songs for the remain campaign, and Side B acting as a soundtrack for those who want to leave.

0825

The Good Schools guide editor has said that state schools have improved β€˜massively’ and that improved results and behaviour are attracting families who could afford private school fees but who are increasingly choosing the state sector. Speaking on the programme is Lord Lucas, editor-in-chief of the Good Schools Guide.

0830

The Labour frontbencher Chris Bryant tweeted last night β€œI don’t get the feeling the Leave campaigns are in very good nick.” ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ reporter Zoe Conway has been down to the Conservative Club in Theresa May's Maidenhead constituency to hear how they greeted this week's news that their local champion will not lead the Leave campaign. Speaking live on the programme is Tom Pursglove, Tory MP for Corby and co-founder of Go.

0835

The social network, Twitter, says it has suspended more than 125,000 accounts for promoting terrorism since the middle of last year. Shiraz Maher is senior research fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization, King’s College London.

0840

Why do some people decide to remain discreet about illnesses such as cancer, while others find comfort in talking about it? Speaking on the programme is Ronny Rowlands, whose grandfather died in October and told almost no one, and Jean Gross, mother of Kate Gross, who wrote a book about her illness entitled Late Fragments: Everything I Want to Tell You (About This Magnificent Life).

0850

The final episode of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ1’s six-part series War & Peace airs tomorrow night. It was one of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s most expensive dramas of all time. Speaking live in the studio is Tom Harper, the director of the series.

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All subject to change.

Broadcast

  • Sat 6 Feb 2016 07:00