05/08/2010
Resistance to the scrapping of the UK Film Council, Naomi Campbell is back in court, the latest DEC appeal for Pakistan and can religion ever be cool?
The Disasters Emergency Committee is appealing for donations to help people caught up in Pakistan's floods.
Naomi Campbell will give evidence at a war crimes tribunal at the Hague today - she's alleged to have been given a diamond by the former Liberian president Charles Taylor, who's facing charges relating to the civil war in neighbouring Sierra Leone.
Can religion ever be cool? Elliot Bohannon, from Catholics with Attitude who make Catholic clothing, and Poppy MacDonald, a young Catholic who wears her red Yeovil Diocese hoodie with pride, discuss.
5 live's Laura Maxwell on the breaking news that the three children who died in a flat in Edinburgh yesterday afternoon had been on a police missing persons list last month.
Some of the biggest names in British film have urged the government to rethink its decision to scrap the UK Film Council. James McAvoy, Emily Blunt and Pete Postlethwaite are amongst those who've signed a letter that's been published in this morning's Telegraph but Chris Atkins is a film director and producer who says it should be scrapped.
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"Blood diamonds" explained
Jewelers of America president discusses "blood diamonds", as model Naomi Campbell testifies at ex-Liberian leader Charles Taylor's war crimes trial about claims he presented some to her as a gift.
Duration: 03:17
Can religion ever be cool?
Elliot Bohannon, from Catholics with Attitude who make Catholic clothing, and Poppy MacDonald, a young Catholic who wears her red Yeovil Diocese hoodie with pride, discuss.
Duration: 05:40
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- Thu 5 Aug 2010 06:00大象传媒 Radio 5 Live