06/06/2017
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0650
Police have named two of the three men who carried out the terrorist attack in London on Saturday night in which seven people were killed. In 2013 Mohammed Shafiq from the Ramadhan Foundation was confronted by one of them, Khuram Butt, at Westminster.
0655
Bob Dylan, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature last October, has finally delivered his Nobel lecture. Sarah Churchwell is professor of American literature at the University Of London.
0710
Jeremy Corbyn has said Theresa May should pay a price in Thursday's general election for ignoring "repeated warnings" not to cut police numbers. Richard Burgon is shadow justice secretary.
0715
Apple's five-day annual developer conference has kicked off in San Jose, California. Dave Lee is the 91热爆's North America tech reporter.
0720
Culture Secretary Karen Bradley told the programme yesterday morning that the government "needs to work with the internet companies and app developers to help us find and stop radicalisation on their products". How probable or even possible is this? Rohan Silva is an entrepreneur and former senior policy adviser to David Cameron when he was prime minister. Jennifer Arcuri is co-founder of cyber-security service Hacker House.
0730
Scotland Yard says one of the men named as an attacker was known to police and MI5 but there was no intelligence to suggest an attack. Does that suggest a failure by the security agencies? Lord Ricketts is former national security adviser under Cameron.
0740
After Theresa May called the election a million under 25s applied online to register to vote. Many in Labour have long believed those who haven't voted in the past could be moved to support Jeremy Corbyn this time. So could the young have a direct impact on the result? The 91热爆鈥檚 Ross Hawkins reports.
0750
The Lib Dems have called for greater investment in the police and security services following the recent attacks in London and Manchester. Tim Farron is leader of the Liberal Democrats.
0810
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson will warn today that only the Conservatives can deliver the "huge potential of Brexit Britain". Mr Johnson is live on the programme.
0820
1984, Orwell's vision of a dystopian future, will be read out loud in whole for the first time ever in the UK. Richard Blair is George Orwell鈥檚 son and Archie Blair his great grandson.
0830
Eyewitnesses to the attack at London Bridge report the killers shouted,"this is for Allah". If the attackers are claiming to be motivated by religion, do we need to take them at face value? Tariq Ramadan is professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford.
0835
A planet which is believed to be hotter than most known stars has been spotted 650 light-years from Earth. Karen Masters is an astronomer at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at Portsmouth University.
0840
With the general election in only two days, Plaid Cymru will be hoping to improve its tally of three MPs in Westminster. Leanne Wood is leader of Plaid Cymru.
0850
Do we need to re-think the way we police the internet? The writer Andrew O'Hagan gives us his view.
0855
The government is expected to announce a major expansion of the Prevent anti-radicalisation programme and a renewed effort to tackle its "toxic" reputation within Britain鈥檚 Muslim communities. Camilla Cavendish is former head of policy at No 10 and Rashad Ali is a practitioner for Prevent.
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