20/06/2016
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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0650
Parliament has been recalled to allow MPs to pay tribute to their colleague Jo Cox who was murdered on Thursday. The House had been in recess due to the referendum campaign but Labour requested the special session. Conservative MP Jason McCartney joins us on the programme.
0710
Former office minister Baroness Warsi has switched sides in the EU Referendum campaign from Leave to Remain in protest at the tone of the campaign. She joins us on the programme.
0715
Three 12-year-old girls from Salford - thought to be amongst the youngest to have taken ecstasy - are currently in hospital after taking teddy bear shaped tablets this weekend. Dr Fiona Measham is a member of the government’s advisory council on the misuse of drugs (ACMD) and founder of drugs charity The Loop.
0720
What is the mood ahead of the England-Slovakia and Wales-Russia game at 2000 tonight? The programme’s chief correspondent Matthew Price reports from Saint Etienne where England plays tonight.
0730
Portsmouth’s Queen Alexandra Hospital was rated inadequate earlier this month by the Care Quality Commission. On this programme, Professor Ted Baker of the CQC said Portsmouth could improve its services by learning from other hospitals. Marianne Griffiths is chief executive of Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundations Trust.
0750
In her short time in the House of Commons Jo Cox never had the experience of parliament being recalled - the last time it happened was in September 2014.Over the years the recall of parliament from a recess has been used on occasions such as a royal death, terrorism and war. We speak to the Labour peer Baroness Jowell and Mary Riddell who writes for the Telegraph and was a friend of Jo Cox.
0810
The polls suggest Remain has edged ahead and the tone of the debate has changed following the death of the MP Jo Cox. One big issue is still that of immigration – the Prime Minister faced hostile questions over what Remaining in the EU would mean for migration levels when he appeared on Question Time last night. Leader of UKIP Nigel Farage joins us on the programme.
0820
Are we in the midst of a new love affair with historic indoor and outdoor public swimming pools? Manchester's Victoria Baths are entering the second stage of their restoration and there are campaigns underway to save and improve others. Jenny Landreth is author of Swimming London and Gill Wright is project manager of Victoria Baths Trust and founder of Historic Pools of Britain.
0830
Southern rail services will be at a standstill tomorrow because of a strike called by the RMT union. Some MPs have called for the company that runs the service - Govia Thameslink - to be stripped of its franchise. Lillian Greenwood is shadow transport secretary.
0835
MD1 is Bletchley Park’s new rival - Churchill's private sabotage and destruction unit. MD1 was housed in a house called The Firs and until recently very little has been known about it. Giles Milton is historian and author of The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
0840
It is world refugee day and the Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki Moon, has been visiting refugee camps on the Greek islands that became the front line in the migrant crisis last year. The ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s Manveen Rana reports from Greece. Manveen Rana reports from Greece.
0850
Some newspapers have adopted opposing positions on the EU referendum: the Sunday Times declared yesterday for Leave whilst The Times on Saturday came out for Remain. Dominic Lawson, former editor of the Sunday Telegraph and The Spectator, and Lisa Markwell, former editor of the Independent on Sunday, join us on the programme.
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- Mon 20 Jun 2016 06:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4