15/08/2013
Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and James Naughtie. Including the situation in Egypt, the letters of Vivian Leigh and menacing seagulls in Cornwall.
Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and James Naughtie. Including:
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Egypt's interim PM Hazem Beblawi has defended the deadly operation to break up protest camps in Cairo, saying the authorities had to restore security. The 大象传媒's Hugh Sykes reports on the situation from Egypt and the Egyptian ambassador, Ashraf El Kholy, gives his analysis from London.
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The V&A Museum has acquired thousands of items of correspondence, diaries, and photographs that belonged to the actress Vivien Leigh. Keith Lodwick, curator at the V&A, Jo Botting, curator of the upcoming Vivian Leigh retrospective season at the British Film Institute, discuss what the articles reveal.
0831
The number of Romanians and Bulgarians working in the UK rose by a quarter in three months, figures from the Office for National Statistics says. The Today programme hears analysis.
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A rundown of stories from Thursday 14 August including programme highlights and comment.
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Egypt Ambassador calls for political process
Duration: 15:18
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- Thu 15 Aug 2013 06:00大象传媒 Radio 4