大象传媒

Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and Justin Webb, including:

0810
The Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has produced plans to try to stem the growth in applications for judicial review, in which courts are asked to decided whether decisions by government or public bodies have been carried out properly. The 大象传媒's legal affairs correspondent Clive Coleman assesses the proposal and the former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf, discusses the proposal.
0817
The best selling author Wilbur Smith has signed a new book deal worth 脗拢15m, but he will be using "carefully selected co-authors" to help write the book. Ian Rankin the crime writer and Jennie Erdal, the author of Ghosting - a book about her experiences as a ghost writer - discuss how often this happens and whether it is important.
0828
The 大象传媒's Barbara Plett has been in the American town of Newtown, where a school shooting took place yesterday, talking to residents about the experience. Robert Spitzer author of "The Politics of Gun Control" and professor of political science at the State University of New York College at Cortland spoke to Justin Webb about America's options for gun control.
0840
The 大象传媒's Winifred Robinson follows the work of the government's Troubled Families Unit, set up after the riots in England last year.
0845
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling talks about his plans to tackle what he describes as "ill-founded" judicial reviews, suggesting that in future they should cost more. Ministers say the changes will not alter role reviews play in holding them, and others, to account.