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06/04/2016

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

3 hours

Last on

Wed 6 Apr 2016 06:00

Today's running order


0650

Leaving the European Union could push up food prices for British consumers or damage farming incomes, it has been warned, after a report was published on the impact of Brexit for farmers. Speaking live on the programme is George Eustice, minister for Farming, Food and Marine Environment.

0655

How significant is the first female tailor opening a shop on Savile Row?听 Speaking on the programme is Kathryn Sargent, the first female master tailor in Savile Row.

0710

The US presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders have won the Wisconsin state primary in a major upset for the frontrunners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Sarah Montague has been speaking to Jon Sopel, the 91热爆鈥檚 North America editor.

0715

In 2014, a 19-year-old in Belfast bought abortion drugs on the internet and used them to induce a miscarriage. The police became involved after her housemates found a foetus in a bin and this week she received a three-month suspended prison sentence. Speaking on the programme is the Northern Ireland Justice Minister David Ford.

0720

The Prime Minister finds himself on the front pages again today over his late father鈥檚 offshore investment fund. Has David Cameron got further questions to answer? Speaking on the programme is Wes Streeting, Labour MP, and member of the Treasury Select Committee.听

0730

At what point does the migration crisis become not just an issue for the EU and its member states but for NATO as well? Sima Kotecha travelled to Mons in Belgium to speak to the Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, the British general Sir Adrian Bradshaw.

0740

The Scottish Parliament elections are a month away, with Labour trying to avoid a repeat of last year's humiliation at Westminster at the hands of the SNP. In the first of two reports, 91热爆 Radio 4鈥檚 James Naughtie sets out where the main parties stand on tax.

0750

Inhalers are being dispensed like "a fashion accessory", according to two leading respiratory doctors who have published an article in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. Dr Louise Fleming is joint-author of the article and Professor Maureen Baker is chair of the Royal College of GPs.

0810

Business secretary Sajid Javid is arriving in India this morning to meet Tata chairman Cyrus Mistry over the sale of Tata's UK steel operations. Speaking on the programme is Simon Jack, the 91热爆 鈥榮 Business editor and Labour MP Stephen Kinnock, who represents Port Talbot in his constituency of Aberavon.

0820

A new film about the Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan is out on Friday. Manjul Bhargava is professor of Mathematics at Princeton University and winner of the 2014 Fields Medal - the 鈥楴obel prize of maths鈥.

0830

In an open letter published today in The Guardian a number of those who have been libelled or hacked by newspapers say that the prime minister has not followed through on his promise to put in place a regulatory system with 鈥渞eal teeth鈥. Speaking on the programme is Gerry McCann, a victim of press intrusion and father of Madeleine McCann.听

0835

Thousands of people have fled the city of Hit, in northern Iraq, after Iraqi forces attempted to retake it from the so-called Islamic State. Speaking on the programme is Ayman Oghanna, a journalist with Vice News.

0840

How is so-called Islamic State profiting from its energy assets? Speaking on the programme is Sandra Oudkirk, office director for Energy Diplomacy at the US State Department who covers the Middle East and Asia and is on her way to the Counter-ISIL Finance Group meeting in Rome.

0845

Dutch voters will express their views on the EU's partnership deal with the Ukraine today. The result will be seen as a test of growing Eurosceptic sentiment on the continent - and it could play into the UK referendum campaign. The 91热爆鈥檚 Alex Forsyth reports from The Netherlands.

0850

In his new book, the journalist Roger Hermiston argues that history has forgotten many of the other important figures in Churchill鈥檚 war cabinet, without whom he could never have succeeded. Speaking on the programme is Roger Hermiston, author of All Behind You, Winston: Churchill's Great Coalition 1940-45, and Sonia Purnell, author of First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill.听

All subject to change.

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  • Wed 6 Apr 2016 06:00