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20/11/2017

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

3 hours

Last on

Mon 20 Nov 2017 06:00

Today's running order

0650

β€˜A New Social Contract for Students’ - an independent review of student support in Scotland is being published today. Jayne-Anne Gadhia is CEO of Virgin Money and author of the report.


0709

Talks to form an unprecedented three-party coalition in Germany have failed after the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) pulled out, citing irreconcilable differences. Stephan Mayer is a member of the executive board of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag.


0715

In 2008, Mugabe declared that β€œonly God can remove me from power”.Μύ Nearly a decade on, the Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, has again defied widespread demands that he step down. Terence Mukupe is a Zanu-PF MP.

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0720

Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer said children need to be taught about dealing with terrorism in the same way that they already receive sex education and drugs advice at school. Emma Robertshaw’s daughter was caught up in Parsons Green attack and Francesca Hunt is director of Crisis Cast.

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0730

The government is announcing a Β£1.7bn plan to improve transport links within city regions, as well as a boost to R&D investment that aims to improve stagnant productivity. Greg Clark is secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy.

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0740

The Chief of MI6 operated a secret slush fund used to fund secret operations to destabilise Iraq, Syria and other countries in the Middle East. It's the subject of the first programme of a new series of documentaries on Radio 4 tonight. Gordon Corera is our security correspondent.

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0750

The Chancellor says 300,000 new homes need to be built each year if there is to be any prospect of mortgages and rents becoming more affordable. Nick Robinson spoke to Labour council leader Bob Price to find out more.

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0810

Robert Mugabe has announced that he will preside over a special congress of the ruling Zanu-PF party next month - the very party that has disowned him. Fergal Keane is our Africa editor and Rory Stewart is the minister for Africa.

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0820

Tina Brown's diaries of her eight years as Editor of Vanity Fair are published in a new book. She joins us on the programme.

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0840

The Chancellor delivers his budget on Wednesday but we've already had a few sneak previews. One of them is a Β£75m fund for investment in AI companies. Dame Wendy Hall is professor of computer science at the University of Southampton and Professor Noel Sharkey is emeritus professor of AI and Robotics at Sheffield University.

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0845

1 in 12 children worldwide live in countries where their prospects today are worse than those of their parents, according to a UNICEF analysis conducted for World Children’s Day. Muzoon Almellehan is a UNICEF goodwill ambassador.

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0850

ΜύA number of people will be talking to the Competitions and Markets Authority today about the proposed merger of Fox and Sky. Kelly Wright is a Fox News anchor and Douglas Wigdor is Kelly Wright’s lawyer.

All subject to change.

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Broadcast

  • Mon 20 Nov 2017 06:00