02/07/2016
Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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0710
Wales have reached the semi-finals of Euro 2016, the first time they have ever been in the last four of a major tournament. Gareth Lewis is the ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s Radio Wales presenter in Lille.
0715
Andrea Leadsom has edged past Michael Gove to become the leading Leave candidate for the Tory leadership – although both are far behind Theresa May, according to a count of MPs by the ´óÏó´«Ã½ yesterday. Chris Mason is the ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s political correspondent.
0720
In a poll for Newsnight carried out by Ipsos Mori, one in five voters said they did not know if the UK would follow through with its Brexit vote while one in six are convinced the country will defy the result. We spoke to Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron, who will be speaking at a pro EU rally this morning.
0725
In the latest of our series on the towns and cities competing to be UK City of Culture in 2021, the ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s Nick Higham has been to Stoke-on-Trent, a city famous for its pottery. But what else would it have to offer as City of Culture?
0730
Police in Bangladesh say they've rescued a number of hostages from a café in the capital, Dhaka, which had been attacked by Islamic militants. The Islamic State group says it carried out the attack. Akbar Hossain reports.
0740
For this week’s Meet the Author series, James Naughtie has been speaking to Geoff Dyer about his latest book of essays.
0750
Both Michael Gove and Theresa May have said that Article 50, which would start the process of withdrawal of the UK from the EU, should not be triggered before the end of this year. Baroness Helena Kennedy is a Labour peer and Carl Gardner is a former government lawyer.
0810
Wales have reached the semi-finals of Euro 2016, the first time they have ever been in the last four of a major tournament. Speaking on the programme is Barry Horne, former Wales captain, and Phil Stead, author of Red Dragons: The Story of Welsh Football.
0820
Jeremy Corbyn has survived a week that looked likely to end his leadership. Today’s Sanchia Berg has been reporting from outside the offices of MP Neil Coyle, one of the MPs who have called for Corbyn to go. Speaking live on the programme is James Schneider, spokesperson for Momentum.
0830
George Osborne has abandoned the last of his three fiscal targets - achieving a budget surplus by 2020 - as a result of Brexit. Anastasia Nesvetailova is member of Labour's Economic Advisory Committee and Sir John Gieve is former deputy governor for financial stability at the Bank of England.
0835
The British Museum has been under new leadership for the past three months – taking over from Neil McGregor was never going to be easy. The ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s arts editor Will Gompertz has been speaking to McGregor’s successor Hartwig Fischer.
0840
A new exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London goes behind the scenes of some of the war films that have captured the imagination of cinema audiences down the years. Justin Webb has been speaking to Laura Clouting, a historian and curator of the exhibition, Real to Reel: A Century of War Movies.
0850
The Labour party faces an unprecedented crisis, teetering on the brink of a leadership contest after a crushing vote of no confidence in its leader Jeremy Corbyn. Julia Langdon is former political editor of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Telegraph and Andrew Rawnsley is political commentator for The Observer.
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- Sat 2 Jul 2016 07:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4