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09/08/2017

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

3 hours

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Wed 9 Aug 2017 06:00

Today's running order


0650


Men are twice as likely to experience mental health problems due to their job, compared to problems outside of work, according to new research by the mental health charity Mind. Andrew Ormerod has experienced mental health problems at work and Madelein McGivern is head of workplace wellbeing programmes at Mind.

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The Hen Harrier has become the conservation cause cΓ©lΓ¨bre in the UK – with only three nesting pairs in England, it is seen as a totemic species in the battle between the conservationists and the ruralists. David Cobham is author of Bowland Beth: The Life of an English Hen Harrier.

0710


North Korea says it is considering launching a ballistic missile strike close to the US strategic military base on Guam in the western Pacific. George Charfauros is US homeland security adviser.

0715


Today marks exactly 10 years since the French bank BNP Paribas announced it couldn’t repay investors who wanted their money back - marking the onset of the credit crunch which led to the global financial crisis of 2008. Jack Lew is former US treasury secretary.

0720


A school in Batley in Yorkshire is doing a commemorative production of Les MisΓ©rables tonight. It was the favourite musical of the MP Jo Cox who was murdered last summer - the director, production team and musicians are all from West End shows. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson reports.

0730
An extra 500 medical school places in England will be made available to students from next year, the government has confirmed. Phillip Dunne is the health minister.

0740
Today marks exactly 10 years since the first signs of the banking crisis emerged. The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ’s Dominic O’Connell reports.

0750
The 26th Premier League season begins on Friday when Arsenal host Leicester. This summer has been dominated by huge transfer fees, with spending set to surpass the previous record of Β£1.165 billion. Richard Scudamore is executive chairman of the Premier League.

0810
North Korea says it is considering launching a ballistic missile strike close to the US strategic military base on Guam in the western Pacific. Bruce Klingner spent 20 years analysing North Korea for the CIA.Β 

0820
Today marks exactly ten years since the French bank BNP Paribas announced it couldn’t repay investors who wanted their money back - marking the onset of the credit crunch which led to the global financial crisis of 2008. Sir John Gieve is the former deputy governor for financial stability at the Bank of England and Lord McFall is the former chairman of the Treasury Select Committee.

0825
Singer and guitarist Glen Campbell has died at the age of 81 after "a long and courageous battle" with Alzheimer's disease. Carol Kaye is the bass guitarist who played on Glen Campbell's songs and James Keach is the director of I’ll be Me, a documentary which followed Glen Campbell’s farewell tour.

0830
A change of tone on Brexit from Ireland’s new government has alarmed many. The new Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said Dublin does not want to see an β€œeconomic border” between North and South. He warned that if the UK did not come up with a plan others will do it for them. Dick Roche is Ireland’s former European Minister for Fianna FΓ‘il.

0840
How has life changed over the 60 years that the Today programme has been on air? Today we look at communication and the public discourse. Mary Beard is professor of Classics at Cambridge University and Christopher Howse is the Telegraph letters editor.

0850
The Metropolitan Police are looking for a jogger who pushed a woman into the path of an oncoming bus on Putney Bridge. Martin Right is member of the Highgate Harriers Athletics Club and has knocked down a child while out running and Julie Bindel is a writer and journalist who hates joggers.

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Today marks exactly ten years since the French bank BNP Paribas announced it couldn’t repay investors who wanted their money back - marking the onset of the credit crunch which led to the global financial crisis of 2008. Robert Peston is the former ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ business and economics editor, now political editor for ITV.


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  • Wed 9 Aug 2017 06:00