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21/11/2017

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

3 hours

Last on

Tue 21 Nov 2017 06:00

Today's running order

0650

It鈥檚 a year since Lucy Kellaway switched careers to start teaching training and聽co-found Now Teach. Lucy Kellaway is a Financial Times journalist.

0655

MPs are scrutinising the Brexit bill, with debate over key amendments. Today is the third of eight days of debate as the bill goes through its committee stage in the Commons. Dominic Grieve is a Conservative MP.

0709

Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party is set to begin impeachment proceedings against President Robert Mugabe on charges that include allowing his wife "to usurp constitutional power". Alex Magaisa is professor of law at Kent Law School.

0715

Angela Merkel鈥檚 efforts to put a coalition together seem to have failed. Katya Adler is our Europe editor.

0720

British explorer Benedict Allen is due to arrive back in the UK today, and joins Frank Gardner this morning.

0730

Nine care homes in West Sussex are under investigation by the police for the possible ill treatment and neglect of dozens of residents. Sangita Myska reports.

0740

There is widespread concern at the refugee crisis that has unfolded on the border of Bangladesh and Myanmar since the summer. Dr Rosena Allin-Khan is MP for Tooting.

0750

There are calls for the Vice-Chancellor of Bath University to step down聽after it was revealed that she received a further pay increase for the current academic year. Thomas Sheppard is the council chair at Bath University.

0810

Weakened by a poor election result in September, Angela Merkel鈥檚 proposed coalition has failed. Justin Webb spoke to Christian Schmidt. Thomas Matussek is former German ambassador to the UK and Gisela Stuart is a former Labour MP.

0820

Today explorer Benedict Allen returns to the UK after having been flown out of the jungle in Papua New Guinea. Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff is editor of GIRLDEM and Ben Fogle is a TV presenter.

0830

A group of outsourced workers at London University are issuing what could be a landmark legal claim to establish the 'joint employer' principle in UK law. Clive Coleman reports and聽Hannah Reed is an employment rights expert at the Trades Union Congress.

0850

What appear to be the last diary entries of Jim Hacker, of Yes Prime Minister fame, have been unearthed. Sarah Montague spoke to Jonathan Lynn, the co-creator of the series.

0855

The new Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales has said that ill-informed abuse of judges, on social media and elsewhere, is likely to undermine the rule of law. Joshua Rozenberg is the presenter of Law Action.

0857

We鈥檙e looking at the overall situation for Brexit negotiations and for the future of Europe. Anne McElvoy is senior editor at the Economist and Alex Barker is the FT鈥檚 Brussels bureau chief.

All subject to change.

Broadcast

  • Tue 21 Nov 2017 06:00