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28/03/2016

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

3 hours

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Mon 28 Mar 2016 06:00

Today's running order


0650

Leicester City is a football club at the very top of its game. Can it build that success into the kind of global appeal that Manchester United have or Chelsea? The 91热爆鈥檚 Jonathan Head reports.

0655

Rail fares have gone up 54% in the last decade - more than double the rate of inflation - but customer satisfaction has gone up just 7%, according to a survey by consumer watchdog Which?. Speaking on the programme is Richard Lloyd, executive director of Which?

0710

A suicide bomber killed at least 70 people, mostly women and children, at a park in Lahore on Sunday in an attack claimed by a Pakistani Taliban faction which said it had targeted Christians. Speaking on the programme is Ahmed Rashid, a former Pakistani militant and journalist.

0715

Belgian police yesterday fired a water cannon to disperse a large group of demonstrators who stormed a central Brussels square. Riot police intervened in Place de la Bourse to try to restore order after the group confronted Muslim women in the crowds, made Nazi salutes and chanted. Michel Eylenbosch is chairman of the Molenbeek city council.

0720

Next week all British dogs will have to have a microchip, so they can be traced to their owners if they get lost or are abandoned. Maria Wickes is rehoming centre manager at Dogs Trust Basildon and joins us live in the studio with her dog Georgie.

0730

Syrian government forces have driven so-called Islamic State fighters out of Palmyra. They claim they will now use the area as a base to mount an attack on the IS stronghold of Raqqa. Is this a sign that the war against IS is being won? Dr Amr Al Azm is former head of the Centre for Archaeological Research at the University of Damascus and an active member of the Syrian opposition.

0740

The Afghanistan cricket team have taken their first big scalp, yesterday beating the West Indies in the T20 World Cup. Dr Sarah Fane is director of charity The Afghan Connection and she went to India to watch Afghanistan in the T20 cricket World Cup.

0750

A petition calling for the reinstatement of the former UKIP deputy chairwoman, has secured just under 2,500 signatures. Today鈥檚 Zoe Conway reports and we speak live to Tim Bale, professor of Politics at the Queen Mary University of London.

0810

A simmering row over the underlying causes, and best approaches to treatment, of mental illness has broken out into open warfare after a leading academic accused the Medical Research Council of bias. Today鈥檚 Science editor Tom Fielden reports and we speak live to Dr Rob Buckle, head of Regenerative Medicine at the Medical Research Council, and Professor Dame Til Wykes, professor of Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation at KCL.

0820

Thomas the Tank Engine鈥檚 friends are getting a little more diverse, with characters such as Yong Bao and Carlos, among others. Mattel, which bought Hit Entertainment, the owner of Thomas & Friends, for $680 million in 2012, has been eager to capitalize on its investment by finding ways to make the franchise more popular in fast-growing markets around the world. Veronica Chambers is the daughter of Thomas the Tank Engine creator Wilbert Awdry.

0830

A suicide bomber killed at least 70 people, mostly women and children, at a park in Lahore on Sunday in an attack claimed by a Pakistani Taliban faction which said it had targeted Christians. Speaking on the programme is Lyse Doucet, the 91热爆鈥檚 chief international correspondent, and we speak live to Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali, a Pakistan-born British Anglican bishop, and Rehman Chishti, Conservative MP and chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Pakistan.

0840

What can the words of a composer bring to our understanding of the music they've written? Reverie - The Life and Loves of Claude Debussy, is part of this year's programme of events at the Ryedale Festival in Yorkshire. In the festival's opening concert actor Simon Russell Beale will read from letters and diaries by the French composer and recollections from those around him, alongside some of Debussy's most famous compositions. James Naughtie went along to meet Simon Russell Beale and Lucy Parham, who accompanies him on piano and put together the script.

0845

Syrian government forces have driven so-called Islamic State fighters out of Palmyra. They claim they will now use the area as a base to mount an attack on the IS stronghold of Raqqa. Does this demonstrate that the war against IS is being won? Peter Ford is former British ambassador to Syria and Lord Richard Dannatt is former Chief of the General Staff.

0850

Last week John asked on air whether we still have foghorns or if technology had rendered them redundant. One of our listeners wrote to us to say he is one of those who still occasionally sets one off. David Kett works for the maritime training charity Taymara which runs the North Carr lightship now docked in Dundee.

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  • Mon 28 Mar 2016 06:00