19/11/2011
Morning news and current affairs, with John Humphrys and Sarah Montague: The future of sick pay. Are pensions too costly? And does E still equal mc squared?
Morning news and current affairs, with John Humphrys and Sarah Montague, including:
07:38 The financier David Norman, who used to be chief executive of Credit Suisse, has written to the prime minister saying pension charges are too high, deliberately complex and sometimes hidden. He explains why he believes urgent and radical changes are needed to the way pensions are sold.
08:17 Einstein's law that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light has come under threat again from the same controversial experiment which had been disregarded by many physicists. Dr Giles Barr, a physicist at Oxford University, explains whether E still equals mc squared.
08:32 A government-commissioned review is going to say changes should be made in the way people on sickness benefits are assessed.
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