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Sanford Wallace has been dubbed the Spam King. He's been sentenced to two and a half years in prison for sending more than 27 million spam emails to Facebook users. We hear from Professor Alan Woodward at the Computer Science Department at the University of Surrey in the UK.

With a week to go until the British referendum on membership of the EU, a lot of people are talking about a possible Leave outcome. The British finance minister, George Osborne, has warned that a vote to leave will trigger a painful emergency budget - including tax increases and spending cuts. Radio 4's Mishal Hussain puts it to Mr Osborne that this would never happen. Among the many Conservative politicians who disagree with Mr Osborne's line on Europe is John Redwood MP - a former cabinet member under the John Major administration - he spoke to the 大象传媒's Alex Ritson.

We widen the Brexit debate by looking out across Europe. Our reporter Rob Young was in Oslo earlier in the week and he's now made his way to Switzerland.

Simon Anholt is a former independent advisor to more than 50 governments in different parts of the world and he's channeled that experience into a fascinating new project - Global Vote. He sets out the premise for us.

President Obama is due to visit Orlando on Thursday to pay his respects to those who lost family and friends in the worst mass shooting in American history. Forty-nine people died when a man opened fire in a crowded bar on Sunday. Mr Obama has already called the crime an act of terror and an act of hate. We set out the scale of hate crime in America by turning statistics into sound with Neal Razzell.

We cast the net a little wider to draw in some of the business headlines from elsewhere in the world and cross to Sydney - and Phil Mercer.

And for the duration of the programme we're joined by Alexis Goldstein in Washington DC, an activist and advocate of financial reform (she also co-hosts a podcast about Wall Street and Privacy issues called "Humorless Queers"). And from Hong Kong we hear from Catherine Yeung of Fidelity International.

Picture Description: Cans of Spam meat made by the Hormel Foods Corporation are pictured in Silver Spring, Maryland, on July 5, 2012.
Picture Credit: JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/GettyImages