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13/11/2017

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

3 hours

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Mon 13 Nov 2017 06:00

Today's running order


0650
The retired High Court judge, Sir Richard Henriques, called in by Scotland Yard last year to review its handling of sexual abuse allegations against public figures has told the Â鶹ԼÅÄ that nothing had been achieved by the recent Wiltshire Police investigation into Sir Edward Heath. Joshua Rozenberg is the Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Radio 4 presenter for Law in Action.

0655
A new exhibition at the Science Museum in London will tell the story of the first British rocket to reach space, the Skylark. Doug Millard is a space curator at the Science Museum and Ken Pounds is an emeritus professor of space physics at the University of Leicester and was involved in the very early days of Skylark.

0710
Labour’s Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer has written to warn Theresa May that she does not have the authority to deliver a Brexit transitional deal and prevent an economic cliff edge. He joins us on the programme.

0712
The government has been accused of worsening the predicament of British woman, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is imprisoned in Iran, after the Environment Secretary Michael Gove said he did not know what she had been doing in the country yesterday. Professor Mads Andenas is a former UN special rapporteur on arbitrary detention.

0715
Oxfam’s annual report for the global humanitarian, development and campaigning organisation includes the income generated by fundraising and over 700 high street shops across the UK. Mark Goldring is the chief executive of Oxfam GB.

0720
Amnesty International says the Syrian regime’s policy of besieging certain areas ahead of ‘reconciliation’ agreements with the opposition constitutes crimes against humanity and war crimes. Diana Semaan is a Syria researcher at Amnesty International.

0725
Police forces across the UK are appealing for people to hand over any unwanted guns with a two-week surrender of firearms and ammunition, starting today. Helen McMillan is the assistant chief constable at Northumbria Police and the National Police Chiefs Council lead on the criminal use of firearms.

0730
The London Fire Brigade is warning there will be an increase in serious building fires unless safety measures are given greater priority. Nick Coombe is the technical advisor on fire safety for London Fire Brigade.

0740
Work starts this week on vital repairs to the world's first iron bridge. Morgan Cowles is head of conservation maintenance and English heritage and director of the Ironbridge project.

0750
The CBI and its European counterparts are meeting with Theresa May today to fight for clarity for companies across Europe on the terms of UK’s EU exit. Richard Tice is a UK real estate businessman, co-founder of Leave.EU and co-chair of Leave Means Leave and Bernard Spitz is a director of the international and European divisions of the MEDEF (Mouvement des entreprises de France), France's biggest business lobby.

0810
The government was accused of worsening the predicament of a British woman imprisoned in Iran after the Environment Secretary Michael Gove said he did not know what she had been doing in the country yesterday. Richard Ratcliffe is Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband. Laura Kuenssberg is the Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s political editor.

0820
Best-selling US author Michael Lewis has released a new book The Undoing Project about the Israeli psychologists who founded the field of behavioural economics. He joins us on the programme.

0830
The amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is rising for the first time in four years. The Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s environment correspondent Matt McGrath reports.

0840
What appears to be the last diary entries of Jim Hacker’s Yes Prime Minister are being published in a book of essays. Jonathan Lynn is the co-creator and writer of Yes, Minister.

0845
The chair of Parliament's spending watchdog is calling for a police investigation after Â鶹ԼÅÄ Panorama uncovered evidence of fraud in the student loan system. Richard Watson is the Â鶹ԼÅÄ’s Panorama reporter.

0850
The Scottish crime fiction author and creator of Inspector Rebus - Ian Rankin - has said the popularity of grisly crime novels may be at risk because the troubled times we live in may push people into reading more comforting fiction. Denise Mina is a Scottish crime writer and author of the Garnethill trilogy and Simon Kernick is a UK crime writer and author of several bestsellers including the Tina Boyd detective series.

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  • Mon 13 Nov 2017 06:00