04/11/2015
Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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VW new emissions scandal allegations: Culture of fear
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Researchers funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) have created a short questionnaire for people who suspect they have prosopagnosia, a condition that causes an inability to recognise faces. Punit Shah is lead researcher at the MRC’s Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre.
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The victims and witnesses of crime often suffer a huge amount of avoidable frustration and distress because they are not adequately supported during crown court trials. Dr Jessica Jacobson is lead author of the report, and Claire Waxman, who was a victim of stalking, has since founded Voice4Victims, which provides support to people going through the court process.
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HRMC has been described as "woefully inadequate" and standards of service as a "genuine threat to tax collection" in a report by the Public Accounts Select Committee. Speaking on the programme is Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee.
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The Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, is setting out details of the government's proposed new contracts for junior doctors in a letter to 50,000 medics in England. Hugh Pym is our Health editor.
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Bonuses of City executives should be linked to targets for the number of senior women appointed at a firm, a review of women in finance, commissioned by the government, will say today. Jayne-Anne Gadhia is chief executive officer of Virgin Money.Ìý
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Actor and comedian Robin Williams killed himself in August last year. His widow, Susan Williams, has given her first interview since his death to ABC news' Amy Robach.
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High street retailer Marks & Spencer is expected to see its profits edge up when it posts its half-year results this morning as the recovering business struggles to maintain momentum. Is their turnaround strategy working? Marc Bolland is chief executive of M&S.
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A YouGov poll commissioned by The Wildlife Trusts suggests that over a quarter (27%) of children aged 8-15 have never played outside by themselves – and 37% hadn’t done this in the past six months. Sima Kotecha has been investigating how to get young people in touch with wildlife. Also on the programme is Lucy Mcrobert, The Wildlife Trusts' campaigns manager.
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The Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi comes to Britain today - some say he should not be welcome here because his government is repressive and anti-democratic. The president has been speaking to our chief international correspondent, Lyce Doucet, who is in Cairo.
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The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is setting out details of the government's proposed new contracts for junior doctors in a letter to 50,000 medics in England. We have been speaking to Jeremy Hunt, and live on the programme is Dr Johann Malawana, chair of the BMA Junior Doctors committee.
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A new law to govern how police and intelligence agencies and the state can access communications and data will be published today. We have been speaking to Preston Byrne, chief operating officer at Eris Industries, a cryptographic communications company which is withdrawing from the UK because of the proposed law. Sara Thornton, chair of the National Police Chiefs' Council, is also live on the programme.
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Sir John Armitt, the former boss of Network Rail and the Olympic Delivery Authority, takes over as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers today. Mr Armitt is speaking on the programme.
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The government is putting forward plans to allow fracking beneath national parks and within the boundaries of hundreds of wildlife havens. Our Environment correspondent Claire Marshall reports from the Peak District.
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CBS have confirmed that a new Star Trek TV series is being developed and will debut in January 2017. Louis Savy is founder and director of the Sci-Fi London festival.
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For some of us, talking about the weather is something of a preoccupation - now, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Weather Watchers is your chance to be part of a UK-wide conversation about the weather. Professor Liz Bentley is chief executive of the Royal Meteorological Society, and is joined by Matt Taylor, the ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s weather presenter.
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- Wed 4 Nov 2015 06:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 FM