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08/04/2016

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

3 hours

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Fri 8 Apr 2016 06:00

Today's running order


0650

Too many young people in the UK are being left behind by a system focused on academic exams and university, according to a report published today. Speaking on the programme is Baroness Tyler, Lib Dem member of the Lords Committee on Social Mobility.

0655

British scientists have taken a first step towards mass-producing platelets - tiny cell fragments that play a vital role in blood clotting - tailored to individual patients. Cedric Ghevaert is consultant haematologist for NHS Blood and Transplant.

0710

After days of pressure, David Cameron has admitted that he and his wife Samantha owned shares in an offshore trust set up by his late father, before selling them for £30,000 in 2010. James Quarmby is a specialist in tax planning and wealth structuring at Stephenson Harwood.

0715

Tata Steel is refusing to comment on claims it has made windfall profits from a policy designed to protect the climate. Femke de Jong is EU policy director at Carbon Market Watch.

0720

Should people be able to have conversations over the internet that are impossible for anyone to access, or should tech companies be forced to keep their technology open to being snooped on for police and security. A company called Vysk has claimed they can prevent the camera and microphone on smartphones from being hacked. Professor Anthony Glees runs Buckingham University's centre for Security and Intelligence Studies and Victor Cocchia is CEO of Vysk.

0730

Two 15-year-old girls were yesterday given life sentences with minimum terms of 15 years for the torture and murder of a vulnerable woman. We have been hearing from Michael Holbeche, who lives on the same street as Angela Wrightson and knew her. Speaking live on the programme is Blake Morrison, a writer and journalist who attended the Bulger murder trial and Professor David Canter, a clinical psychologist.

0740

The American food giant Kellogg's is concerned that people are not eating cereal as they once did. The 91Èȱ¬â€™s Nick Bryant reports from New York.

0750

A second wave of migrants are expected to return from Greece to Turkey today as part of the EU deal to reduce the numbers reaching Europe. The 91Èȱ¬â€™s Sophie Long reports and we speak live to Ewa Moncure, spokesperson for Frontex.

0810

After days of pressure, David Cameron has admitted that he and his wife Samantha owned shares in an offshore trust set up by his late father, before selling them for £30,000 in 2010. Speaking on the programme is Owen Smith, shadow work and pensions secretary, and the Skills minister Nick Boles.

0820

Last night was the opening night of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Royal Opera House. Prior to this, the Opera House had issued a content warning to opera-goers who had already bought tickets of scenes of explicit sex and gore – prompting some customers to ask for a refund. So was it a re-run of their controversial William Tell which was booed for the inclusion of a controversial rape scene, or did they water down the violence? Speaking on the programme is Charlotte Higgins, chief culture writer for The Guardian.

0825

What happens when two international broadcast giants collide? The new Star Wars trailer - for the next episode in the series - was released yesterday with the Archers' Felicity Jones. She played Emma Grundy in the radio series and she is in the lead role in Rogue One.

0830

A second wave of migrants are expected to return from Greece to Turkey today as part of the EU deal to reduce the numbers reaching Europe. Speaking on the programme is Sacha Myers, from Save the Children, who has been into the detention centres, and Kostas Chrysogonos, Greek MEP from the ruling Syriza party.

0840

Space travel is an expensive business – the cost of fuel and materials is astronomical. But what if we could use the rocks, minerals, water and energy sources out in space to help further our explorations? Speaking live on the programme is Ian Crawford, professor of Planetary Science at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Vibha Srivastava, PhD researcher in space architecture at the Open University.

0850

From hedgehogs to house sparrows, butterflies to bumblebees, the story of British wildlife is one of remorseless decline. There are, however, examples of species or places that are bucking the trend: so how do we turn these green shoots into a full-blown recovery? That is the focus of a new book Wild Kingdom by the natural history filmmaker Stephen Moss.

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  • Fri 8 Apr 2016 06:00