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19/05/2016

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

3 hours

Last on

Thu 19 May 2016 06:00

Today's running order

0650

An LA-based start-up aims to present strong female role models to young girls at bedtime. It has raised nearly $400,000 for a Kickstarter campaign to fund a collection of 100 tales about real life successful women such as Frida Kahlo, Serena Williams and Elizabeth I. Elena Favilli is CEO of Timbuktu Labs and co-creator of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls. Abie Longstaff is author of The Fairytale Hairdresser series.

0655

One of the 219 girls kidnapped in Nigeria by Islamist group Boko Haram has been found more than two years after being abducted from her school in Chibok. Fulan Nasrullah is independent counter-insurgency analyst.

0710

The Britain Stronger in Europe campaign has descended into β€œinsults, personal attacks and petty tabloid smears on key people” according to MP Steve Baker. The MP for Wycombe says the last few weeks of the EU referendum campaign have been β€œbreathtakingly disheartening” and is β€œnot the one that the British people expected to be treated to”. Steve Baker is a campaigner for Vote Leave.

0715

People who have a minor stroke have a high risk of a major stroke soon afterwards. However the risk of major stroke is reduced by 80% if aspirin is taken immediately after the minor stroke, according to new research from Oxford University. Peter Rothewell is professor of neurology at Oxford University.

0725

It was announced in the Queen's speech yesterday that although bus services might be provided by separate companies, mayors of cities in England will be able to specify that the service operates as a single regional bus service, with a common brand name and colour scheme on every bus, similar to London. Sima Kotecha reports from Liverpool.

0730

More on the finding of one of the 219 girls kidnapped in Nigeria two years ago by Boko Haram: Sola Tayo is Associate Fellow of the Africa Programme at the foreign affairs think tank Chatham House.

0740

As part of our European Union referendum coverage we look at what impact the EU has on our daily lives. The Today programme’s chief correspondent Matthew Price has been to Hastings on the south coast to see what Brussels has done for our beaches.

0750

The growing resistance to drugs used to treat infections should be treated as an "economic and security threat", according to the final report from a major review of antibiotic resistance. Jim O’Neill is an economist and chairman of the review on antimicrobial resistance.

0810

The long-running dispute over a new contract for junior doctors in England could soon be over after a deal yesterday between government negotiators and the doctors' union, the British Medical Association. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt joins us on the programme.

0820

It’s 30 years since the release of Top Gun. The soundtrack spent five weeks at number one in the charts that year and went on to be one of the best-selling film soundtracks of all time. Justin Webb has been reminiscing with the man who wrote the Top Gun anthem, German composer, Harold Faltermeyer.

0830

Former mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg is in the UK, speaking at Number 10 to meet new London mayor Sadiq Khan and make the case for the UK to remain in the EU. He joins us on the programme.

0840

The government yesterday announced plans for every prisoner to be placed on a bespoke learning plan as part of a sweeping overhaul of the education system behind bars. Offenders will be given their "tailored" programme on arrival in jail under plans unveiled by the government. Dame Sally Coates is author of a review into prison education and Kelly Judge is a former prison inmate.

0850

Jesse Eisenberg made his name portraying the founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg in the film The Social Network. It earned him an Oscar nomination and since then he's gone on to work with directors including Woody Allen and appeared in Batman Versus Superman. His latest play, which is called The Spoils, opens in London later this month. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s arts correspondent Rebecca Jones has been talking to him.

0855

More on the growing resistance to drugs used to treat infections: Laura Piddock is professor of microbiology at Birmingham University and Mark Woolhouse is professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Edinburgh University.

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  • Thu 19 May 2016 06:00