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26/06/2017

News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 26 Jun 2017 06:00

Today's running order


0650

On Friday up to 90 email accounts were compromised during a cyber-attack on Parliament, which led officials to disable remote access to the emails of MPs. Brian Lord is former deputy director for Intelligence and Cyber Operations at GCHQ and now managing director of PGI, a cyber-security company.

0655

Ten fines are issued to hauliers every day after migrants are found hiding in lorries, according to newly-issued ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Office figures. Kevin Hopper is managing director of Brian Yeardley and Rod McKenzie is impending director of policy at the Road Haulage Association.

0709

The deadline for forming a new power sharing government in Northern Ireland is this Thursday which, if is missed, could mean direct rule. Theresa Villiers was Northern Ireland Secretary.

0712

The number of failed cladding fire tests has risen to the number of 60 and there are now 25 areas implicated in the fire safety failures. On Sunday, John McDonnell said that the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, was directly critical of the government’s decisions. Zoe Conway is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s correspondent and Luke Stubbs is the Conservative deputy leader of Portsmouth Council.

0720

Fighters from so-called Islamic State have mounted a counter attack in Iraqi city of Mosul, in districts to the west of the old city. Karin von Hippel is the director general of the Royal United Services Institute in London.

0730

Theresa May is arranging the post-Brexit "settled status", that will be offered to EU nationals in the UK. Brexit Secretary David Davis said details of the plans would be set out in a 15-page document today. Adam Flemming is the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s Brussels reporter and Antonio LΓ³pez-IstΓΊriz White is the Spanish MEP and secretary general of the European People's Party.

0740

Award-winning playwright James Graham has written a new play that explores the birth of The Sun newspaper and the mythical world of Fleet Street in 1969. Bertie Carvel plays the role of Rupert Murdoch, the man transformed it into a tabloid newspaper and joins us in the studio alongside David Yelland who is the former Sun newspaper editor.

0750

Labour Transport minister and chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission Lord Adonis will be delivering a speech today calling on the government to ensure that Brexit and a hung parliament don’t delay infrastructure projects. He joins us on the programme today.

0810

After the latest assessment of tower block cladding, John McDonnell said that the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire β€œwere murdered by political decisions that were taken over recent decades”. John Healey is the shadow housing minister. Alok Sharma is the housing minister.

0820

A new play set during the Great Depression will feature Bob Dylan songs and will premiere at the Old Vic in London next month. It's been written and directed by the award winning Irish writer Conor McPherson and he joins us on the programme.

0830

President Macron is working on his campaign message of β€œchange” into a political reality as he gains a parliamentary majority. The Today programme’s Jim Naughtie reports.

0840

Wildlife populations are under threat because water companies and farmers are draining dozens of rivers. Jeremy Paxman is a presenter who recently did a series β€˜Rivers with Jeremy Paxman’ for Channel 4 and Richard Benyon is a Conservative MP and was the wildlife minister at DEFRA.

0845

The Royal Navy's new flagship aircraft carrier will set sail today, the ship will move from the Rosyth dock out into the Firth of Forth. Lord Admiral West is former first sea lord and chief of the naval staff for the Royal Navy.

0850

In a new series of essays for this programme, we reflect on how we tell stories about ourselves. Alex Evans is a senior fellow at New York University's Center for International Cooperation.


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  • Mon 26 Jun 2017 06:00