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At least 339 people have been killed in a stampede on a bridge during festival celebrations in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. Sean Ngu is visiting family and friends in Cambodia and witnessed the stampede. He paints an image of panic, in the first hour of the programme.

The Irish Prime Minister has said he will call a general election in the new year following a day of political turmoil over an EU-led bail-out of the country's ailing economy. Dennis Berman, the Wall Street Journal's deputy bureau chief for money and investing, gives us a lively analysis.

Also in the first half hour, a harrowing interview with the father of one of the trapped New Zealand Miners - Lawrie Drew is the father of 21 year old Zen. The mayor of Grey district, where the accident happened, is Tony Kokshoorn. He tells us that it's been a tough day for the rescuers.

Then in hour two, we hear of a setback in the rescue operation. John Urosek, chief of mine emergency operations at the United States's national mine safety agency tells us New Zealand has come to him asking for another rescue robot.

It's 47 years since US President John F Kennedy was shot dead in the streets of Dallas, Texas. In hour two, Clint Hill looks back at his time working with JFK as a secret service agent assigned to the President.

A campaign's underway in Britain to widen the teaching of the Classics - and in hour two, we discover a new way of teaching Latin being pioneered in Connecticut. Dr Roger Travis, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Connecticut, explains the thinking behind his video game.