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24/03/2016

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

3 hours

Last on

Thu 24 Mar 2016 06:00

Today's running order


0650

Improvements in scanning mean patients with advanced head or neck cancer may be spared unnecessary surgery. Speaking on the programme is Professor Hisham Mehanna, from the Institute of Head and Neck Studies and Education at the University of Birmingham, and Pat Rhodes, who had neck cancer and was in the trial so didn't require neck surgery.

0655

Five eminent female scientists will sign a manifesto calling on governments, organisations and the public to fight for equality at every level in the sciences. Elizabeth Blackburn is Nobel laureate and president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

0710

How do centre-right politicians in Belgium think the country should react to the terror attacks in Brussels? Mark Demesmaeker is the delegation leader of the N-VA (New Flemish Alliance) at the European parliament.

0715

According to a Lords Select Committee report, the government is failing in its duty of care to disabled people. Baroness Brinton is president of the Liberal Democrats and a member of the House of Lords Equality Act 2010 and Disability Committee.

0720

An inspection report into the process for deporting foreign offenders and illegal immigrants has revealed that 40% of all planned removals of people in the UK illegally have to be cancelled. Lucy Moreton is general secretary of ISU, the union which represents border agency and immigration staff.

0730

The Energy and Climate Change Secretary Amber Rudd is warning that UK energy costs could "rocket" by 拢0.5 billion a year if the UK quits the European Union. We speak live to Ms Rudd.

0740

Belgian prosecutors have confirmed that two of the three suicide bombers who struck Brussels on Tuesday were brothers. Today鈥檚 chief correspondent Matthew Price is in Place De La Bourse in the centre, which has become the focus of tributes since Tuesday's attacks.

0750

The judgement in the trial of Radovan Karadzic is expected this afternoon. The former Bosnian Serb leader has been on trial in The Hague since 2009, charged with war crimes as well as genocide over the execution of 8,000 Muslim men and boys by Serb forces at Srebrenica in 1995. We hear from Kemal Pervanic, survivor of the Bosnian War, and Robert Donia, a biographer of Karadzic who was an expert witness in the trial in 2010.

0810

Belgian prosecutors have confirmed that two of the three suicide bombers who struck Brussels on Tuesday were brothers. The attacks have sparked a debate in the UK about whether Britain would be safer by pulling out or staying in the EU. Speaking on the programme is Today鈥檚 chief correspondent Matthew Price, Rob Wainwright, director of Europol, and David Davis, former Shadow 91热爆 Secretary.

0820

The first-ever archaeological investigation of Shakespeare鈥檚 grave has taken place ahead of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare鈥檚 death. The scan reveals, for the first time, what lies beneath the mysterious-looking gravestone, which has been the subject of rumour and intrigue for centuries. Dr Helen Castor is a Cambridge historian who presents a Channel 4 听documentary about the first-ever archaeological investigation of Shakespeare鈥檚 grave.

0830

The former Sunderland player Adam Johnson is to be sentenced later today for child sex offences. Is football's vast wealth creating people who feel they are above the law? The 91热爆鈥檚 Jonathan Legard reports.

0835

Preliminary results in the referendum on whether New Zealand should change its flag and drop the Union Jack will be announced this morning. Sir Alexander Lockwood Smith is New Zealand High Commissioner to the UK.

0840

Today marks 70 years on from when the first 'American Letter' was broadcast on 24 March 1946. Hear Alistair Cooke reading his first letter from America, in which he describes his return from an austere Britain to a bountiful New York.

0850

Is the UK safer than Belgium when it comes to the threat of terror attacks? Speaking on the programme is Andrew Dorman, professor of International Security at King鈥檚 College London, and Maajid Nawaz, founding chairman of counter-extremism think tank the Quilliam Foundation.

All subject to change.

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  • Thu 24 Mar 2016 06:00