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03/11/2014

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

3 hours

Last on

Mon 3 Nov 2014 06:00

Today's running order

All times subject to change.

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0635

A British banker is due in court in Hong Kong, charged with the murder of two women. Martin Patience reports.

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0640

The latest report from the Intergovernmental panel on climate change let to headlines about what would happen if the world does not act. Tom Feilden reports.

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0644

Islamic terrorists have carried out another slaughter of Muslims near Baghdad. OrlaÌýGuerin reports.

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0646

The Vatican have unveiled new air conditioning and lighting systems inside the Sistine Chapel to protect Michelangelo's ceiling and wall frescoes from the increasing pollution caused by ever greater crowds of tourists. David Willey reports.

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0650

David Burrows, a family lawyer representing an historical child abuse victim, says it is wrong to concentrate on the failure of the government to find a proper chair for the enquiry. And that the whole enquiry needs to have a new focus.

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0655

The great clarinettist Acker Bilk has died. He led the revival of traditional jazz during the late 1950s and 60s.Ìý For twenty three years John Mortimer played in his Paramount Jazz Band, last night he spoke to us from his home in Germany.

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0715

Alex Salmond declined the chance to write his own epitaph when asked by Andrew Marr yesterday, but he did claim that grave humour was a particularly Scottish tradition and offered his favourite from an Edinburgh graveyard. We speak to Dr Susan Buckham, a freelance consultant specialising in historic graveyards.

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0734

James Naughtie is in Colorado ahead of the US midterm elections.

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0748

The 91Èȱ¬ Secretary Theresa May will make a statement to Parliament today setting out her plans for appointing a new chairman to head the child abuse inquiry following the resignation of Fiona Woolf. We talk to Tom Watson the Labour MP who launched a petition earlier this year calling for the child sex abuse inquiry to be set up.

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0810

Chancellor Angela Merkel would rather see the UK exit from the European Union than compromise over the principle of free movement of workers, according to theÌý Nikolaus Blome, Berlin bureau chief for Der Spiegel discusses, before John Humphrys speaks to Tory MP David Davis.

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0820

Two new intelligence chiefs are taking up their roles this morning - Alex Younger as new head of MI6 and Robert Hannigan as the head of GCHQ. Security Correspondent Gordon Corera discusses the pressing issues they face.

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0825

The Coutts Million Dollar Donors Report out this morning shows more than 300 charitable donations worth more than £1m were made last year – a big increase on the year before. Peter Buffett, composer and philanthropist who manages a $1billion foundation, and Marcelle Speller, multi-millionaire who is going to give away almost all of her wealth in her lifetime.

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0835

John Humphrys speaks to Booker Prize winning author Peter Carey.

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0840

Michael O'Leary, Chief Executive of Ryanair, discusses the airlines half-term profits.

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0845

Virgin Galactic insists safety has always been central to its operations, following the crash of its experimental spacecraft in the US on Friday. Andrew Smith, author ofÌý Moondust: In Search of the Men Who Fell to Earth, discusses.


0850

Weight loss surgery can dramatically reduce the odds of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a major study. Dr Omar Khan, consultant surgeon at Whittington Hospital and one of the authors of the research, and Marian Burfield, who had type 2 diabetes before gastric band surgery, discuss.

Broadcast

  • Mon 3 Nov 2014 06:00