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07/10/2016

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

3 hours

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Fri 7 Oct 2016 06:00

Today's running order


0650

The Magic Circle is celebrating 25 years since women joined their ranks. Today’s Nicola Stanbridge reports.

0655

A group of British expats are launching a legal challenge against Jean-Claude Juncker’s decision that Commission officials must not engage in any discussions with the British government about Brexit prior to the triggering of Article 50. Wynne Edwards is one of the expats launching the legal challenge.

0710

Hurricane Matthew has strengthened as it moves slowly towards Florida, and is set to be the strongest storm in the US for 12 years. Michael Yaffee is a radio host in Orlando, Florida.

0715

A report by the anti-corruption group Transparency International claims that just 10 individuals or companies were responsible for more than half of all donations made to the EU membership referendum. Will Straw is former executive director of the Remain campaign.

0720

Yesterday on the programme we heard how more than 10,000 migrants have been rescued by the Italian coastguards over the past three days. The coastguards wait around 30 miles off the Libyan coast and rescue migrants between 12 to 20 miles from the coast. But does the presence of these boats encourage more migrants to make the journey? Douglas Murray is a journalist at the Spectator.

0725

Archaeologists working near to Stonehenge have completed studies of a prehistoric dog's tooth that suggests people were travelling long distances to Stonehenge long before the monuments were installed, possibly to hunt the plentiful wildlife of Salisbury Plain. Professor David Jacques is senior research fellow in archaeology at the University of Buckingham.

0730

Jeremy Corbyn is reshuffling his shadow cabinet tonight, with some prominent positions for women. Jo Stevens is MP for Cardiff Central and newly appointed shadow Welsh secretary.

0740

Fleabag is a very funny and very rude take on the life of a 20-something woman, played by Phoebe Waller Bridge. She wrote it as a one woman show; it was then made into a TV series on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 3 and is now moving back to the theatre for another run. We speak live to Ms Waller Bridge.

0750

UKIP has launched an inquiry after one of its MEPs was taken to hospital following an altercation with a colleague in the European Parliament. What next for the party? Raheem Kassam is former aide to Nigel Farage and contender for the leadership.

0810

The long, drawn-out process of deciding whether or not to build an extra runway at Heathrow is coming to a head, and it is looking increasingly like Heathrow. Today chief correspondent Matthew Price reports. Sir Howard Davies was chair of the UK Airports Commission and Zac Goldsmith is Conservative MP for Richmond and former candidate for mayor of London.

0820

After a 25-year career with the Canadian Space Agency, then NASA, Commander Chris Hadfield has written about his childhood in a children’s book that deals with fear of the dark. What should the pilots and scientists of the future be hoping to explore? We speak live to Mr Hadfield.

0830

A global agreement to combat climate change will take force next month after support from European nations sent the accord across an important threshold earlier this week. Christiana Figueres was the executive secretary of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change and a key architect of the Paris climate agreement.

0835

The death toll in Haiti as a result of Hurricane Matthew - the most powerful Caribbean storm in a decade - has soared to more than 300, officials say. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s Nick Davies reports.

0840

The London Film Festival opened this week with a film directed by a black woman for the first time in its history. But can β€˜talking' about diversity and celebrating past successes actually achieve anything? Heather Stewart is creative director of the BFI and David Harewood is an actor best known for his roles in Blood Diamond, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔland and The Night Manager.

0850

A hundred years ago, the maverick former Stoke City, Port Vale and Aston Villa goalkeeper Leigh Richmond Roose died on the Somme. He was arguably the most famous sportsman in Britain during the early years of the 20th century - a playboy, scholar, maverick and soldier who changed the face of goalkeeping forever. Writer Spencer Vignes has written a book about Roose, Lost In France, and Neville Southall played as goalie for Wales and Everton.

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  • Fri 7 Oct 2016 06:00