08/05/2017
News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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0650
Brian Thompson a shop keeper from Middlesbrough goes on trial today in a landmark case, challenging the legality of video-streaming set-top boxes, Kodi, that provide subscription content for free. Kieron Sharp is director at the Federation Against Copyright Theft.
0710
Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron has decisively won the French presidential election, defeating far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. Katya Adler is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔβs Europe Editor and Axelle Lemaire is French Socialist Minister for digital affairs and innovation in Francois Hollandeβs government.
0720
The Conservatives will once again promise to cut net migration to the "tens of thousands" in their election manifesto, the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ understands. Dr Carlos Vargas-Silva is acting director of The Migration Observatory at Oxford University.
0730
Could a progressive alliance stop the Tories winning a landslide? There has been a lot of bold talk about parties of the centre left - Labour, the Lib Dems, the Greens - standing aside for each other so as not to split the anti Tory sentiment but the Labour party nationally says it will not cooperate. Caroline Lucas is co-leader of the Green Party.
0750
Adverts for junk food and sweets would be banned from all TV shows broadcast before the 2100 watershed under Labour plans to tackle childhood obesity. Jon Ashworth is the shadow health secretary.
0810
France has voted the pro-European centrist candidate, Emmanuel Macron as their eighth President, comprehensively beating the far-right candidate, Marine Le Pen. Jean Pisani-Ferry is chief economic adviser to Emmanuel Macron.
0820
A new exhibition showing Charles Dickensβ work as a campaigner and investigative journalist opens today in the London townhouse where he wrote The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby. John Drew is head of the research project Dickens Journals Online and Simon Callow is a British actor who has written about and played Dickens.
0830
The Conservatives have promised to introduce a Mental Health Treatment Bill to replace what they say is the βoutdated and unfit-for-purposeβ 1983 Mental Health Act.Β Ceri has schizophrenia and was detained in a police cell and Jenny Edwards is chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation.
0845
The 82 schoolgirls released by Boko Haram Islamist militants have met Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari. Senator Shehu Sani is the Nigerian Senate Committee chairman on local and foreign debts and also serves as the vice chairman on the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.
0850
Vets are warning that they are seeing a year on year increase in the number of cases of the dog disease Alabama Rot. David Walker is the UKβs leading investigator on Alabama Rot and Gabrielle Williamsβ dog, Fleur, died in March after contracting the disease.Β
0855
Author of Move Fast and Break ThingsΒ and former producer for The Band, Jonathan Taplin, has accused Silicon Valley power players like Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and Mark Zuckerberg of destroying culture and making it difficult for artists to survive. Mark Mulligan is a media and technology analyst.
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- Mon 8 May 2017 06:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4