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Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and Justin Webb, including:

0750
Children who live in the country or in coastal towns in England do less well at school than those who live in the big cities, Ofsted's chief inspector, Sir Michael Wilshaw has said. Professor Chris Husbands, director of the Institute of Education at the University of London, and Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, discuss why rural areas and coastal areas are doing so poorly.

0810
The government has a duty to explain the benefits of genetically modified crops to the British people, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson is to say in a speech today. The 大象传媒's science editor David Shukman reports and Owen Patterson, the Environment Secretary, outlines what he will announce.

0819
Authors who write for teenagers should include realistic sex scenes so that young people don't learn everything they know from online pornography, the new children's laureate Malorie Blackman has argued in an article in the Telegraph. The author Philip Pullman gives his view.