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31/08/2015

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

3 hours

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Mon 31 Aug 2015 06:00

Today's running order


0650

Owners of English farmland should be forced to sign up to a legally-binding code of conduct setting out rights and responsibilities in return for EU agricultural support. We hear from Peter Hetherington, author and journalist, and Christopher Price, director of policy and advice at the Country, Land and Business Association.

0655

Thousands of people have taken to social media to pay their last respects to the acclaimed neurologist and author, Oliver Sacks, who died at his home in New York over the weekend at the age of 82, after losing his battle with cancer. We have been speaking to Robert Krulwich, National Public Radio’s science correspondent and presenter of the hugely successful podcast, Radiolab. Mr Krulwich knew Oliver Sacks for 35 years and did Oliver’s final interview.

0710

Ferry services between Britain and France were disrupted overnight because of a blockade at the French port of Calais. Speaking on the programme is Tony Lodge, a P&O spokesperson.

0715

The Hungarian government has accused the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, of making ‘shocking and groundless judgements’ about a razor-wire barrier erected by Hungary along its border with Serbia, to try to keep out migrants. Our correspondent Nick Thorpe sent a report from Roszke on the Hungarian Serbian border.

0720

The renowned Chinese human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has warned that China is ‘a threat to humanity’. We have been speaking to Mr Guangcheng himself.

0730

In a piece on immigration in the Sunday Times, Theresa May wrote that the numbers 'clearly show that too many students are not here temporarily' and are staying on and settling permanently in the UK. We hear from David Willetts, former Minister of State for Universities and Science and soon to be life peer.

0740

One of the big stories of the August Bank Holiday weekend last year was the news of this country's first Ebola patient from West Africa, Will Pooley. Mr Pooley has been talking to our health correspondent, Jane Dreaper, who was given access to the unit where he was treated.

0750

Islamic State militants have reportedly blown up another ancient temple in Syria's Palmyra city. We hear from Diana Darke, a Syria expert who has spent a lot of time in Palmyra and is author of My House in Damascus - an inside view of the Syrian Revolution.

0810

George Osborne is in Scotland this morning, where he is announcing £0.5 billion worth of investment in the Faslane nuclear base. Brendan O’hara is the SNP MP for Argyll and Bute and SNP Westminster Defence spokesperson.

0815

Ferry services between Britain and France were disrupted overnight because of a blockade at the French port of Calais. We hear from Jean Marc Puissesseau, president of the port of Calais.

0820

The body that represents care providers in England says there are not nearly enough male carers to look after the growing number of men living long enough to need it and that the Government needs to do more to attract men into adult social care roles. Sima Kotecha has been reporting from the West Hall Care Home in Surrey, and we hear from Professor Martin Green, chief executive of Care England, which is the largest representative body for independent care providers in England.

0830

The Hungarian government has accused the French foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, of making ‘shocking and groundless judgements’ about a razor-wire barrier erected by Hungary along its border with Serbia to try to keep out migrants.  Zoltan Kovacs is spokesman for the Hungarian government, and Claude Moraes is the Labour member of the European Parliament for London and deputy leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party.

0845

Researchers have discovered a naturally-occurring protein that can be used to create ice cream which is more resistant to melting than conventional products. Speaking on the programme is Professor Cait Macphee of the University of Edinburgh's school of physics and astronomy, who led the project.

0850

With an excess of 30,000 performances of more than 2,000 shows, The Edinburgh Fringe is the biggest international arts festival in the world. But despite the multi-faceted, multi-cultural and multi lingual make-up of the performers, the majority of the audience is almost all white. We hear from Neil Cooper, arts writer for the Herald, and Ria Lina, comedian of the Taboo Raider show at Edinburgh.

All subject to change.

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  • Mon 31 Aug 2015 06:00