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Dr Mitchell Levy - father of freelance cameraman Ashoka Mukpo who's being treated in a hospital in Omaha, Nebraska for Ebola – speaks to Aleem Maqbool. Plus Dr Phil Smith, medical director of the Nebraska Medical Centre's Biocontainment Unit, discusses the experimental treatment they've been trying.

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0715

The Nato Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg begins a two-day visit to Turkey today, as fighting continues between Kurdish and Islamic State around the Syrian border town of Kobane.Ìý Sevgi Akarcesme, columnist for Turkish daily newspaper Zaman, discusses.

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0720

Outgoing European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services Michel Barnier discusses the City of London’s concerns about rules and regulations for banks coming from Brussels.

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0725

The former head of the Metropolitan Police Lord Blair of Boughton has told this programme that he believes the law which grants the police powers to examine journalist phone records in order to discover their sources needs to be re-written. Matthew Price reports.

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0730

David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, discusses the West’s response to Ebola.

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0740

John Humphrys meets former Sex Pistols lead singer John Lydon.

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0750

Back in February, NHS England decided to delay plans to create a giant database of the records of patients at GP practices and hospitals. This week it was announced that NHS England was trying again, trying out the project in 265 GP surgeries in six pilot areas. Dr Richard Vautrey, a GP in Leeds, and Tim Kelsey, National Director for Patients and Information at NHS England.

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0810

The US and UK have warned that air strikes alone will not prevent Islamic State (IS) fighters from seizing the Syrian town of Kobane. Paul Adams reports, before John Humphrys speaks to defence secretary Michael Fallon.

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0820

Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor was one of the world's great travel writers. In the grand old tradition he was a scholar and a war hero and a general all-round high achiever. Top of his achievements was the capture of a German general on Crete - and today for the first time his account of that capture is published. Travel Writer and historian William Dalrymple and biographer Artemis Cooper discuss.

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0830

EU Home Affairs ministers will meet in Luxembourg today to discuss ways of stopping Europeans who've fought in Syria from returning to launch terrorist attacks on home soil. Duncan Crawford reports.

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0835

Andrea Sutcliffe, Chief Inspector of Adult Social Care at the Care Quality Commission, and Dr Richard Preece, Saga Group Medical Director discuss a new inspection model for adult social care.

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0840

The Wellcome Trust and the Education Endowment Foundation have given £6m to six projects designed to explore how neuroscience relates to learning. Denis Mareschal, Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck, University of London, and Heidi Johansen-Berg, professor of cognitive neuroscience at Oxford University, discuss.

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0850

There's been fresh shelling along the border between Pakistan and Indian-administered Kashmir - in the biggest escalation in violence in years. Shaimaa Khalil reports.