
14/11/2017
News and current affairs. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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0650
The Bonn climate change talks
continue today. Tomorrow the so called High-Level Segment of annual UN meeting
(COP23) begins, when heads of government and senior ministers address the
conference through a series of national statements. Claire Perry is the climate change minister.
0655
What is the way forward for British museums? Neil Mendoza is a tech
and advertising entrepreneur who led the review on the museum sector and Sharon
Heal is director of the Museums Association.
0710
Theresa May has said Russia is meddling in elections, hacking
Danish ministry, the Bundestag and it is seeking to weaponise information by
planting fake stories. Sir Mark Lyall Grant is a former national security adviser.
0715
Thousands of people left homeless by an earthquake on the border
between Iran and Iraq have spent a second night in the open. Rana Cassou is
from the Red Crescent and co-ordinating the earthquake response from Beirut.
0720
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently launched the
America's Pledge report at the Bonn climate talks, saying that US businesses
are committed to hitting reduction targets, even if their President isn't. He
joins us on the programme.
0725
Online ad campaigns created by academics in Britain and the US have
targeted millions of people based on psychological traits perceived from a
single ‘like’ on Facebook – demonstrating, they say, the effect of ‘mass
psychological persuasion’. Sandra Matz is an assistant professor at Columbia
Business School in New York City and author of the study.
0730
A key piece of the government's Brexit legislation - the EU
withdrawal bill - returns to the Commons today with ministers still bracing for
parliamentary battles, despite an apparent concession to potential Tory rebels.
Lord Lisvane is a crossbench peer and former clerk of the House of Commons.
0740
Why is it so hard for Asian communities to talk about mental
illness? Last night the issue was highlighted on 91Èȱ¬2 with a dramatisation of
Sathnam Sanghera's memoir, The Boy with the Topknot. Sathnam Sanghera is the
author and Prof Dinesh Bhugra is emeritus professor of mental health and
cultural diversity at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
at King’s College London.
0750
The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has apologised for saying a
British-Iranian woman - who's in jail in Tehran - had been training journalists
when she was detained. Carla Ferstman is the director of REDRESS, a human
rights organisation specialising in torture and Sir Richard Dalton is a former
Ambassador to Iran.
0810
A key piece of the government's Brexit legislation - the EU
withdrawal bill - returns to the Commons today with ministers still bracing for
parliamentary battles, despite an apparent concession to potential Tory rebels.
Robin Walker is the parliamentary under-secretary of state in the department
for exiting the European Union. Laura Kuenssberg is the 91Èȱ¬â€™s political editor.
0820
Ronnie Wood is best known for being part of the Rolling Stones but
before his career in music even began, he was at art school – which is being
charted in a new book. The 91Èȱ¬â€™s arts editor Will Gompertz reports.
0830
How will farming be changed by the robotics revolution? Tom Feilden
is our science editor. Simon Blackmore is professor of agricultural robotics at
Harper Adams University.
0835
The ONS is publishing the inflation stats for October. Lucy
O'Carroll is chief economist at Aberdeen Asset Management PLC.
0840
A new report by race equality think tank, the Runnymede Trust, is
urging the government to adopt a new definition of Islamophobia as ‘anti-Muslim
racism’. Farah Elahi is a research and policy analyst at the Runnymede
Trust.
0845
Professor Muhammad Yunus, who won a Nobel Prize for his work in
tackling poverty, has written a new book arguing that we can create a world
with zero poverty, zero unemployment and zero carbon emissions. He joins us on
the programme.
0850
High
street banks and financial service companies should be forced to better look
after vulnerable customers via a ‘legal duty of care’, according to a leading
charity. Lynda Thomas is the chief executive of Macmillan Cancer Support.
All subject to change
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- Tue 14 Nov 2017 06:0091Èȱ¬ Radio 4