27/05/2016
Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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0650
As part of our EU referendum coverage, Mishal Husain reports from Northern Ireland this morning to find out what farmers make of the debate to remain and leave.
0710
David Cameron has told world leaders he will send a British navy warship to help support and train the Libyan coastguard to stop people trafficking across the Mediterranean. Chris Parry is a former NATO commander and director general in the Ministry of Defence.
0710
Vote Leave has accused the government of breaching the spirit of its own purdah rules by publishing the Treasury's pensions analysis just before they came in to force. Iain Duncan Smith is former work and pensions secretary and part of Vote Leave.
0715
The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ held a debate on Britain's membership of the European Union last night - in front of a live audience in Scotland - all under the age of 30. Were minds changed either way? The programme’s special correspondent Matthew Price reports from Luton's Barnfield vocational college.
0720
The billionaire co-founder of Paypal, Peter Thiel, has admitted that he funded Hulk Hogan's successful lawsuit against the online news site Gawker. The website now owes him nearly Β£100 million in damages. David Folkenflik is a media correspondent for US National Public Radio.
0730
A Public Accounts Committee report says that the criminal justice system in England and Wales is close to breaking point by long-standing poor performances - with less than half of those who have been a witness in a trial saying they would be prepared to do it again. Committee chair Meg Hillier and former solicitor general Sir Edward Garnier MP discuss the report.
0740
More on our coverage of the EU referendum from Londonderry: Presenter Mishal Husain reports.
0750
Scotland has lagged behind England in getting young people from poorer backgrounds into university. This is despite the abolition of tuition fees, which was meant to help widen access and flagship policy of the SNP. John Swinney is Scottish education minister.
0810
More on the pensions/ purdah story: Baroness Ros Altmann is the pension’s minister and Kamal Ahmed is the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s economics editor.
0820
Russian-born British journalist Arkady Ostrovsky has won the Orwell Prize for Books. His book The Invention of Russia is an account of the post-Soviet transformation of Russia, chronicling the era from Mikhail Gorbachev’s freedom to Vladimir Putin’s war and the central role played by the media in creating Russia’s national narrative. He joins us on the programme.
0840
Strike action over law reforms gripped France on Thursday, with oil refineries, nuclear power stations and transport hubs disrupted. Marie-Christine Naillod is policy adviser for the CGT Union which is leading the action.
0845
A new play is to be opened at the Brighton Festival putting veterans from either side of the Falklands conflict centre stage. They've been working with the 39-year-old Argentinian director, Lola Arias, to shape their recollections and reflections from the conflict. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ’s arts editor Will Gompertz reports.
0850
This week the Health Service Journal published a series of leaked messages which were sent via WhatsApp revealing behind-the-scenes activities between the leadership of the British Medical Association's junior doctors' committee and their negotiations with the Health Secretary. Madhumita Murgia is head of technology at The Telegraph and Fevzi Turkalp is editor of the website Gadget Detective dot com.
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- Fri 27 May 2016 06:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4