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29/08/2015

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

2 hours

Last on

Sat 29 Aug 2015 07:00

Today's running order


0705

Police are trying to trace a woman from east London and her four children amid fears they may be on their way to Syria. Frankie McCamley reports.

0710

The 91Èȱ¬ Secretary Theresa May is in Paris later today for talks with French and other European counterparts about how to increase security on the railways after last week's foiled attack on a train from Amsterdam to Paris. Hugh Schofield is our Paris correspondent.

0715

Rebekah Brooks is returning to News Corp as chief executive of its UK division, a year after being cleared of all charges related to the phone-hacking scandal, according to the Financial Times. We hear from Henry Mance, the Financial Times’ Media correspondent.

0720

Lebanon is expected to see the biggest anti-government protests in ten years today. 91Èȱ¬ correspondent Jim Muir reports from Beirut.

0725

HSBC has suffered a major computer problem which held up more than a quarter of a million payments - including many people's salaries, at the end of the month, before a long bank holiday weekend. We hear from Paul Lewis, presenter of Radio 4’s Money Box.

0730

The Government is extending its cull of badgers to Dorset, in an effort to control the spread of TB in cattle. We hear from Trevor Cligg, the Dorset chairman of the National Farmers Union, and Professor Rosie Woodroffe, an ecologist from the Zoological Society of London who worked on a previous Government trial cull.

0740

Fifty years ago this weekend strange objects were being seen in the skies around the town of Warminster in Wiltshire. We hear what residents said in a 91Èȱ¬ documentary broadcast in 1966.

0750

An estimated 200 people are thought to have drowned off Libya when two overloaded boats capsized on Thursday. Speaking on the programme is Fadumo Dayib, who was born in Somalia, but fled from there with her mother when she was a child and claimed asylum in Finland. She is returning to Somalia, where she plans to run for President next year.

0755

The FTSE 100 lost four percent of its value on Monday after fears about economic weakness in China. We are joined by Edward McBride, finance editor of The Economist, and Graham Cartledge, vice-chairman of the China-Britain Business Council.

0810

Rebekah Brooks is returning to News Corp as chief executive of its UK division, a year after being cleared of all charges related to the phone-hacking scandal, according to the Financial Times. Speaking on the programme is Dr Evan Harris, joint executive director of Hacked Off, and Roger Alton, who was executive editor of The Times until June, and formerly editor of the Independent and the Observer.

0820

The news that One Direction are going to be taking an extended break after the release of their fifth studio album in March 2016 sent fans into an emotional frenzy this week. We hear from Bethan Jones, PhD candidate specialising in fan culture at the University of Aberystwyth and board member of the Fan Studies Network.

0830

Four people are being held by police in Hungary over the discovery of 71 bodies in the back of a lorry on a motorway in Austria on Thursday. James Reynolds is our correspondent in the Austrian city of Eisenstadt, close to where the lorry was found. We also hear from Rob Wainwright, Director of Europol.

0840

Shane Meadows’ 2006 film This is England sparked a Channel 4 series which, now in its third series, is coming to an end. We have been speaking to Shane Meadows about the success of his film and series.

0850

The National Autistic Society is calling on the government to take action to tackle the ‘unacceptable’ waiting times facing people seeking diagnosis of autism. We have been speaking with a lady whose son’s autism took six years to diagnose. We also hear from Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge University and vice-president of the National Autistic Society.

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Fifty years ago this weekend strange objects were seen in the skies above the town of Warminster in Wiltshire. We hear from Dr David Clarke, National Archives UFO consultant and senior lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, and Kevin Goodman, who witnessed a UFO above Warminster and is organising today's anniversary event.

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  • Sat 29 Aug 2015 07:00