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04/12/2015

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

3 hours

Last on

Fri 4 Dec 2015 06:00

Today's running order

0650

More people than ever before are now living with cancer, but as more people survive, a new and related problem is emerging - heart disease. Our science editor Tom Feilden reports.

0655

RAF Tornados conducted air strikes on six targets in Syria on Thursday, "successfully" attacking an IS-controlled oilfield, according to the Ministry of Defence. Richard Galpin is our correspondent in Cyprus.

0710

Labour candidate Jim McMahon has won the Oldham West and Royton by-election with a majority of more than 10,000. Speaking on the programme is Nigel Farage, UKIP leader.

0720

The 大象传媒 has learned that Conservative Party officials received a memo in August which warned that the activist at the centre of the Tory bullying scandal was 鈥渁 sociopath鈥 and 鈥渄angerous鈥. Speaking on the programme is Today programme reporter Tom Bateman.

0730

Police have reported an increase in the number of attacks on Muslims living in some British cities in this country over the three weeks since the slaughter in Paris. Today鈥檚 Sima Kotecha reports, and live in the studio is Vidhya Ramalingam, director of Moonshot CVE, an organisation that works with communities and governments to trial new methods of how to fight right-wing extremism.

0740

Dr Seuss鈥檚 environmental fable, The Lorax, previewing at the Old Vic this evening, is the latest in a long line of children鈥檚 stories to be adapted for a major theatre. Speaking on the programme is Max Webster, director of The Lorax at the Old Vic, and he is joined by The Lorax himself - held by puppetry director Finn Caldwell.

0750

RAF Tornados conducted air strikes on six targets in Syria on Thursday, "successfully" attacking an IS-controlled oilfield, according to the Ministry of Defence. Lyse Doucet is our chief international correspondent and Major Issam El Reis is the Free Syrian Army spokesman for Southern Syria.

0810

Labour candidate Jim McMahon has won the Oldham West and Royton by-election with a majority of more than 10,000. Speaking on the programme is Tom Watson, deputy leader of the Labour Party.

0820

Librarians in Japan are up in arms after a newspaper revealed some of Haruki Murakami鈥檚 teenage reading habits, based on a leak of his school library record. Speaking on the programme is Ciara Eastell, president of the Society of Chief Librarians and Kevin Crossley-Holland, former winner of the Guardian children鈥檚 fiction prize and Carnegie medal and president of the School Libraries Association.

0830

David Cameron has said he does not expect to reach a deal on reforming the European Union when he meets other leaders at a summit this month. Speaking on the programme is David McAllister MEP, who represents Angela Merkel鈥檚 CDU party in the European parliament and Conservative backbencher Bernard Jenkin.

0835

The climate is changing in Texas, but could it ever wean itself off fossil fuels and would it ever want to? The 大象传媒鈥檚 chief correspondent Matthew Price reports.

0840

Just as FIFA was approving a series of reforms designed to clean up the sport, news came of yet more problems. David Larkin is an international sport and anti-corruption lawyer; he is also co-director of Change FIFA, an organisation aiming to make FIFA more "fair and accountable".

0850

We have been told time and again that bombing doesn't win a war - but clearly it plays a part.听 Professor Richard Overy of Exeter University has written a book on the bombing of Europe from 1939-1945 and we've asked him to give us a short history of the role played by aerial bombardments over the years.

All subject to change.

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  • Fri 4 Dec 2015 06:00