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07/04/2016

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

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Thu 7 Apr 2016 06:00

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0650

Food should be labelled with the exercise required to burn off its calories, to help people change their behaviour, according toÌýShirley Cramer,Ìýchief executive at the Royal Society of Public Health. Speaking on the programme isÌýShirley Cramer.

0655

Is it actually possible to intervene through medical means in the lives of potential paedophiles to prevent them even committing a crime in the first place? Researchers in the Karolinska Institute in Sweden are looking at establishing a preventive treatment for men with paedophilic disorder, to help tackle child sexual abuse. Speaking on the programme is Dr Christoffer Rahm, the principle investigator on the Swedish drug trial project, and Don Grubin, professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Newcastle University.

0710

Voters in the Netherlands have rejected in a referendum an EU partnership deal removing trade barriers with Ukraine, preliminary results suggest. Thierry Baudet is a Dutch Eurosceptic and leading figure in the No campaign.

0715

The Scottish election campaign has had lots of arguments about tax and spending, but another aspect to it is the dominance of the Scottish Nationalists, who have been in power since 2007. They lost the 2014 referendum on independence but their political power has grown, as Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4’s James Naughtie reports.

0720

One of country music’s most influentialÌý singers, Merle Haggard, has died of pneumoniaÌý on his 79th birthday. Baylen Leonard is a country music broadcaster who has presented country music shows on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 2 and Amazing Radio.Ìý

0730

A Â鶹ԼÅÄ Breakfast Freedom of Information Act request has revealed enormous inconsistencies in specialist mental health outpatient treatment for people with eating disorders in England. In some parts of the country over the last four years, waiting times have increased by more than 120%. Speaking on the programme is Kat Pugh, now 26, who has battled anorexia since the age of 11, and Rebecca Fielding, from eating-disorder charity B-Eat.

0740

Oxford University academics have discovered a copy of Shakespeare's First Folio, published in 1623. It is one of the world's most sought-after books - Shakespeare experts at Oxford are hailing it as an extremely rare and significant discovery. Emma Smith is professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford.

0750

There has been an angry reaction from those campaigning to leave the European Union to the government's decision to spend more than £9million to send a leaflet to every UK household setting out the case for remaining in the EU. Speaking on the programme is Michael Fallon, Defence Secretary, and Graham Stringer, Labour MP, speaking for Vote Leave.

0810

On January 20th 2015 Miguel Jimenez, an 18-year-old man from Colombia, was found dead in a flat in central London. The man who found him was his partner, barrister Henry Hendron, who supplied drugs that killed Mr Jimenez. We have been speaking to Mr Hendron about drug-fuelled binges, or ‘chemsex’ that has been described by the Royal College of GPs as a rapidly-emerging pattern of drug use among gay men and also some heterosexuals.

0820

The BAFTA Games Awards take place tonight, celebrating the best of the gaming industry. The most nominated game is not your typical violent shoot-em-up, but a story-based game set in a smallÌý English village in Shropshire, called Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture. Speaking on the programme is Jessica Curry, co-founder of games studio The Chinese Room and one of the lead-developers of Everybody's Gone to the Rapture.

0830

Anti-abortion group Precious Life has called for the case of a woman given a suspended prison sentence after buying drugs online to terminate pregnancy to be brought to the appeals court because it was too lenient. Speaking on the programme is Bernadette Smyth, director of Precious Life and Dr Fiona Bloomer, specialist researcher in abortion policy.

0835

Earlier this week the instant messaging service Whatsapp announced it was adding full end-to-end encryption, meaning that users’ messages, photos and videos cannot be intercepted.Ìý Now a device called Vysk is offering further protection by encrypting all calls and texts and preventing the camera and microphone from being hacked. Speaking on the programme is Victor Cocchia, CEO of Vysk Communications, and Professor Anthony Glees, director of the University of Buckingham’s Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies.

0840

Since NATO troops withdrew in 2014 the battle against the Taliban has been led by Afghan forces. But they have been steadily losing ground in Helmand. Yesterday the Afghan army launched a big new offensive. The Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s South Asia correspondent Justin Rowlatt reports.

0845

Following on from our interview with Henry Hendron we want to discuss the impact 'chemsex' is having on the gay community. Speaking on the programme is Matthew Hodson, from gay men's health charity GMFA and Dr Iain Reeves, a consultant specialising in sexual health of gay men.

0850

At the end of several days of revelations following the leak of files from Mossack Fonseca, one of the world's biggest offshore firms, what have we learned and will it have any lasting impact? Speaking on the programme is Tom Keatinge, director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute; Rachel Davies, head of UK Advocacy and Research at Transparency International UK and Philip Augar, former managing director at Schroders.

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  • Thu 7 Apr 2016 06:00