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05/08/2015

Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 5 Aug 2015 06:00

Today's running order

0650

Technical experts in France will today begin to examine the wing part of a plane washed up on the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion. It's thought the barnacles found on the wing flap might provide some clues. We speak to observational biochemist Professor Richard Lampitt.

0710

A high profile children's charity, Kids Company, is understood to be planning to close its services later today. Chris Cook is policy editor at Newsnight.

0715

Lord Coe has defended the International Athletics Associations Federation's drug-testing system and said it was time to "come out fighting" to protect the reputation of the sport. We hear from athletics coach Toni Minichiello.

0720

There's a new type of website which enables people to raise money to help them fight court cases. Dan Whitworth reports.

0725

Richard Scudamore, chief executive of the Premier League, looks ahead to the start of the new season which commences on Saturday.

0730

The London Underground will come to a halt this evening, when workers begin the second strike in a month in a dispute about the planned new Night Tube service. We hear the views of Mick Cash, General Secretary of the RMT union, and Boris Johnson, Mayor of London.

0740

Benedict Cumberbatch takes to the stage as Hamlet tonight, commencing a 3 month run.聽 Such is the frenzy for the Oscar-nominated star that 100,000 tickets sold out in seven hours when they became available a year ago.聽 Zoe Conway reports live from the Barbican. Plus, we speak to celebrity events planner Rocco Buonvino.

0750

Fines for lorry drivers and road haulage firms who have had migrants found on board their vehicles increased by 50% last year.聽 Simon Clarke is head of transport law at Cartwright King.

0810

"It is a declaration of war on my sport.'' The response of Lord Coe to media reports that blood test results carried out by the athletics governing body the IAAF suggested that drug cheating was rampant in the sport. We hear from Lord Coe and from sports editor Dan Roan.

0820

The summer camp on the Norwegian holiday island of Ut酶ya opens to children again this weekend, four years after Anders Breivik's horrific gun attack which claimed 77 lives. Emilie Bersaas is vice president of the Norwegian Labour Party鈥檚 youth organisation.

0825

Anthony Joshua, the gold medal winning Olympic boxer, marks today being one year to go until the Rio Olympics.聽

0830

Earlier this year, 22-year-old Jack Holmes, an IT worker from Bournemouth, left the UK to join the main Kurdish force in northern Syria. Sima Kotecha reports.

0835

Scientists from the Zoological Society of London have used ancient Chinese documents to track the decline of the some of the world's rarest primates.聽 Today, China has few gibbons left. Rebecca Morelle reports.

0840

In the second series of three pounds in my pocket, which starts today on Radio 4, Kavita Puri hears conversations between the pioneer generation that came to post-war Britain.

0845

The historian Robert Conquest died on Monday at the age of 98 in Palo Alto. His works on the terror and privation under Joseph Stalin made him the pre-eminent Western chronicler of the horrors of Soviet rule. Anne Applebaum is author of Gulag: A History.

0850

Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn has said there are lessons to be learned from the Labour government of the late 1970s. We speak to Baroness Shirley Williams and Dr Steve Davies from the Institute of Economic Affairs.

All subject to change.

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  • Wed 5 Aug 2015 06:00