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30/04/2016

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

2 hours

Last on

Sat 30 Apr 2016 07:00

Today's running order

0710

Syrian rebels say government forces have again bombarded a medical facility in Aleppo just days after a deadly attack on a hospital in the divided city. David Nott is consultant surgeon at Royal Marsden, St Mary鈥檚 and Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals.

0720
The Education Secretary Nicky Morgan will address the annual conference of the National Association of Headteachers in Birmingham this morning. One of the topics discussed will be the government's plans for turning every school in England into an academy. Kim Johnson is President of the National Association of Headteachers.

0730

The 1961 film Mr. Topaze, directed by and starring Peter Sellers, has been chosen to be restored and digitised after an online vote. Jo Botting is fiction curator at the BFI National Archive.

0740

The 大象传媒鈥檚 Jim Naughtie meets author Pat Barker as part of this week鈥檚 Meet the Author.

0755

One of the governors of Southern Health Trust, Mark Aspinall, has resigned after a highly-critical report by the Care Quality Commission. Joining us on the programme is Suella Fernandes, a Conservative MP.

0810

Relations between the two leading candidates in London's mayoral race have become distinctly unpleasant. Joining us on the programme is Zac Goldsmith, Conservative MP and London Mayoral candidate.

0820

Kenya will set fire to 105 tonnes of ivory later today. It will be to send a message around the world that the appetite for ivory in Asia, and the poachers and traffickers who sell it, are causing the death of tens of thousands of elephants every year. The 大象传媒鈥檚 Africa correspondent Alastair Leithead reports from Nairobi.

0830

The world鈥檚 largest and most powerful particle accelerator has been brought to its knees by a beech marten, a member of the weasel family that chewed through wiring connected to a 66,000-volt transformer. Dr Victoria Martin is particle physicist at the University of Edinburgh and part of the team working on the ATLAS experiment with the Large Hadron Collider.

0840

Earlier this week Labour MP John Mann verbally attacked Ken Livingstone over anti-Semitic claims. Yesterday Sky News tried to catch out Jeremy Corbyn with a doorstepping but was met with a simple "goodbye." What is the art to doorstepping, and can it backfire? John Sergeant former 大象传媒 chief political correspondent and Michael Crick is political correspondent for Channel 4.

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Broadcast

  • Sat 30 Apr 2016 07:00