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07/04/2010

News, sport, entertainment, and big guests. Plus your emails, texts and tweets.

Gordon Brown sets out Labour's plans for parliamentary and constitutional reform in a speech in central London, including plans for lowering the voting age to 16.

AA patrol members have voted in favour of strike action - in what would be the first strike in the 105 year history of the Automobile Association. Mickey Clarke explains what happens next.

Stephen Merchant, one half of comedy's most successful writing partnerships with Ricky Gervais, on co-writing and co-directing their latest project, the film Cemetery Junction - about the lives of three friends in a small English town in the 1970s.

Roddy Doyle has enjoyed critical acclaim and bestselling status with his books including The Commitments and Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. The Irish novelist, dramatist and screenwriter tells Richard about his tenth novel The Dead Republic, the final part of his Henry Smart trilogy.

After the launch of Apple's highly-anticipated iPad in the U.S, will it prove to be a breakthrough product which opens up the market between smartphones and laptops, or does the product fail to live up to the hype? And in time will the iPad become as popular as the iPhone? 91热爆 technology correspondent Maggie Shiels, Boyd Hilton, The Onion editor Baratunde Thurston and Matt Buchanan from GizModo discuss.

And finally, we hear from David Cameron as he meets workers at the Warburtons Bakery in Bolton.

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Wed 7 Apr 2010 14:00

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  • Wed 7 Apr 2010 14:00