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27/07/2015
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Last on
Mon 27 Jul 2015
06:00
麻豆社 Radio 4
Clips
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Night shifts 'significantly shorten lifespan'
Duration: 05:20
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Operation Stack: 'It's bad for everybody'
Duration: 02:49
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NHS 'constantly feeding regulatory beast'
Duration: 03:48
Today's running order
0650
The Government is reported to have given up the fight against Japanese Knotweed - because the cost of eradication is too high. Dr Dick Shaw is regional coordinator for invasives at CABI, the Centre for Agricultural Bio Sciences.
0655
Universities will today launch their campaign for a vote for the UK to stay in the European Union, with a warning that the role of higher education in the country's future prosperity depends partly on EU membership. Nicola Dandridge is chief executive of Universities UK.
0710
The Chancellor is due to meet senior figures from the French administration in Paris today, as he advances the renegotiation of Britain's relationship with the EU. 麻豆社's assistant political editor Norman Smith reports.
0715
Parts of Kent have been in virtual shutdown due to Operation Stack - a police scheme managing lorries headed for the continent. Reporter Joe Inwood talks to local residents.
0720
Nato ambassadors will meet in Brussels on Tuesday at the request of Turkey to discuss security issues following the recent terror attacks in the country. We hear from Onur Oymen, former Turkish ambassador to NATO and Bill Park, senior lecturer at King's College London and expert on Turkish-Kurdish relations.
0730
Earlier this month Stuart Rose, Conservative Peer and retailer, produced a report into leadership in the NHS which was published with remarkably little fuss. We hear from Mr Rose.
0740
There are three and a half million people in the UK who do shift work - many of them at night. For a documentary called The Night Shift which goes out on Radio 4 tonight, presenter Sarah Montague has been looking at the overwhelming research that now exists about the risks of working at night. 聽聽
0755
Scotland's former First Minister Alex Salmond has told the 麻豆社 a second referendum on Scottish independence is 'inevitable'. We hear from Ewan Crawford, former special advisor to the First Minister on the Constitution, and Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid-Scotland and Fife and former deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party.
0810
Chris Froome has won the Tour de France for the second time. Pierre Sallet, physiologist and head of Athletes for Transparency, suggests Froome's performance is impossible without doping; Brian Cookson is president of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and former president of British Cycling.
0820
Seventy years ago, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The human impact of the bomb was in part brought home by a New Yorker article written by the Pulitzer prize-winning writer John Hersey in 1946, which Penguin has republished as a book alongside Gods of Metal, another New Yorker article, by Eric Schlosser, who joins us live.
0830
British troops are taking part in military exercises in western Ukraine, as part of a major exercise run by American and Ukrainian forces. Washington insists it is not a direct response to the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine - but Moscow has called it a "provocation". Tom Burridge reports.
0840
Barristers in England and Wales will today begin industrial action which could bring chaos to the criminal courts. 聽Francis Fitzgibbon QC, vice-chair elect of the Criminal Bar Association, talks to us live.
0845
A Libyan court will on Tuesday hand down sentences in the trial of 37 senior officials and supporters of Colonel Gaddafi, who was overthrown and killed in the revolution of 2011. But what's life like in Tripoli today? World affairs editor John Simpson reports from the city.
0850
Just how bad for us are night shifts? Jane White is research and information services manager at the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, and Russell Foster, director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute.
All subject to change.
The Government is reported to have given up the fight against Japanese Knotweed - because the cost of eradication is too high. Dr Dick Shaw is regional coordinator for invasives at CABI, the Centre for Agricultural Bio Sciences.
0655
Universities will today launch their campaign for a vote for the UK to stay in the European Union, with a warning that the role of higher education in the country's future prosperity depends partly on EU membership. Nicola Dandridge is chief executive of Universities UK.
0710
The Chancellor is due to meet senior figures from the French administration in Paris today, as he advances the renegotiation of Britain's relationship with the EU. 麻豆社's assistant political editor Norman Smith reports.
0715
Parts of Kent have been in virtual shutdown due to Operation Stack - a police scheme managing lorries headed for the continent. Reporter Joe Inwood talks to local residents.
0720
Nato ambassadors will meet in Brussels on Tuesday at the request of Turkey to discuss security issues following the recent terror attacks in the country. We hear from Onur Oymen, former Turkish ambassador to NATO and Bill Park, senior lecturer at King's College London and expert on Turkish-Kurdish relations.
0730
Earlier this month Stuart Rose, Conservative Peer and retailer, produced a report into leadership in the NHS which was published with remarkably little fuss. We hear from Mr Rose.
0740
There are three and a half million people in the UK who do shift work - many of them at night. For a documentary called The Night Shift which goes out on Radio 4 tonight, presenter Sarah Montague has been looking at the overwhelming research that now exists about the risks of working at night. 聽聽
0755
Scotland's former First Minister Alex Salmond has told the 麻豆社 a second referendum on Scottish independence is 'inevitable'. We hear from Ewan Crawford, former special advisor to the First Minister on the Constitution, and Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid-Scotland and Fife and former deputy Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party.
0810
Chris Froome has won the Tour de France for the second time. Pierre Sallet, physiologist and head of Athletes for Transparency, suggests Froome's performance is impossible without doping; Brian Cookson is president of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and former president of British Cycling.
0820
Seventy years ago, the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The human impact of the bomb was in part brought home by a New Yorker article written by the Pulitzer prize-winning writer John Hersey in 1946, which Penguin has republished as a book alongside Gods of Metal, another New Yorker article, by Eric Schlosser, who joins us live.
0830
British troops are taking part in military exercises in western Ukraine, as part of a major exercise run by American and Ukrainian forces. Washington insists it is not a direct response to the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine - but Moscow has called it a "provocation". Tom Burridge reports.
0840
Barristers in England and Wales will today begin industrial action which could bring chaos to the criminal courts. 聽Francis Fitzgibbon QC, vice-chair elect of the Criminal Bar Association, talks to us live.
0845
A Libyan court will on Tuesday hand down sentences in the trial of 37 senior officials and supporters of Colonel Gaddafi, who was overthrown and killed in the revolution of 2011. But what's life like in Tripoli today? World affairs editor John Simpson reports from the city.
0850
Just how bad for us are night shifts? Jane White is research and information services manager at the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, and Russell Foster, director of the Sleep and Circadian Neuroscience Institute.
All subject to change.
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- Mon 27 Jul 2015 06:00麻豆社 Radio 4