24/12/2013
The weather causes thousands to be stuck on ferries off the coast of Dover, reports of mass executions in South Sudan plus the royal pardon given to Alan Turing.
The weather causes thousands to get stuck on their journeys home for Christmas, many of them on ferries off the coast of Dover. Christmas Eve's weather's to be no better.
We speak with journalist Hannah McNeish in South Sudan's capital Juba, who's spoken with victims of what they call a mass execution in the developing ethnic violence there.
On the night WW2 code-breaker Alan Turing is given a pardon over his 1952 prosecution for being gay, we hear from Keith Devlin, who is the Executive Director of the H-STAR Institute at Stanford University and was part of a group of mathematicians who lobbied for the pardon...
And we hear about the spacewalks that are being done to repair the International Space Station.
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