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21/01/2013

The Sports Team with John Parrott and Andrew Castle; Algeria hostage speaks out; snow disruption hits the UK; Obama inauguration; HMV accept vouchers and shark heroics.

The Sports Team discuss a weekend of top sporting action, including Andy Murray in action at the Australian Open, Man Utd's lead cut in the Premier League, & the disgraced Lance Armstrong's search for redemption. Plus Swansea City's Angel Rangel recalls his night giving food to the city's homeless.

A British survivor of the Algerian hostage crisis relives his ordeal, & explains how he managed to escape from the remote desert gas plant where dozens of international hostages died during a siege.

As snow causes thousands of schools to close & widespread travel disruption, we hear the latest on delays to flights and rail services, including how the Lancashire Fire & Rescue Service are coming to the public's assistance.

Plus the stricken retailer HMV agrees to honour vouchers; Barack Obama prepares for his official inauguration in Washington DC; and a British tourist becomes a have-a-go hero Down Under when a shark approaches a Queensland beach.

2 hours

Last on

Mon 21 Jan 2013 12:00

Broadcast

  • Mon 21 Jan 2013 12:00