Today: GPs 'should not write sick-notes'
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10:02
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19/11/11
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A government-commissioned review is going to say changes should be made in the way people on sickness benefits are assessed. Lord Freud, the minister for welfare reform, and Dr Richard Vautrey, deputy chairman of the BMA GPs committee, debate the...
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Today: Are pension charges too high?
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5:20
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19/11/11
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The financier David Norman, who used to be chief executive of Credit Suisse, has written to the prime minister saying pension charges are too high, deliberately complex and sometimes hidden. He explains why he believes urgent and radical changes are...
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Today: Kabul's own 'Bruce Lee'
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5:28
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19/11/11
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Few in Britain will have heard of Rohullah Nikpai but he is a hero in his native Afghanistan as the first Afghan to win an Olympic medal - for taekwondo - at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Mike Thomson went to meet the 24-year-old athlete in Kabul as he...
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Today: Business news with Simon Jack
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10:25
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21/11/11
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Business news with Simon Jack. With Professor Santiago Carbó Valverde of the University of Grenada and Darren William of Allianz Bernstein discuss the economic challenges facing Spain's new government. And ahead of the CBI's annual conference,...
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Today: Business news with Simon Jack
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11:42
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14/11/11
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Markets will pass their verdict on the comings and goings in Rome. And a report today from the Institute of Family Business highlights the importance of family businesses to the UK economy....
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Today: 'Mistake not to represent tabloids' at Leveson Inquiry
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7:37
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14/11/11
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The Leveson Inquiry into the issues arising from the News of the World scandal is to start hearing from the victims of phone hacking. Associate Editor of the Sun Trevor Kavanagh and Roy Greenslade, professor of Journalism at City University, debate...
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Today: Economic turmoil 'casting long shadow' on UK
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10:06
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14/11/11
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Pessimism about the UK economy seems endemic, and the latest report by the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development has only added to the gloom, saying that its survey of businesses suggests that many of them are stuck in a "wait and see"...
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Today: Webb at the potter's wheel
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10:37
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14/11/11
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In his newest book The Pot Book, writer and artisan Edmund De Waal charts the history of pottery and ceramic ware from the third millennium BC to the present day. Justin went to the potter's South London studio to try his hand at pottery under...
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Today: Business News with Simon Jack
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11:23
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15/11/11
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Martin O'Donovan of the Association of Corporate Treasurers on a new set of rules for credit rating agencies set out by The European Commission. And Western Union's Hikmet Ersek, on the company's newest venture....
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Today: 'I tried to burn myself to death'
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7:12
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15/11/11
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Improving women's rights in Afghanistan was one of the major civil objectives when Nato forces toppled the Taliban in Afghanistan 10 years ago. In the second of his series of reports, Mike Thomson speaks to Shabana, who was given away to another...
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Today: 'Confusion over accountability' at Border Agency
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13:23
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15/11/11
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The former head of the UK Border agency, Brodie Clark, is to give his version of events at Westminster after resigning following a row with the Home Secretary over the relaxation of border controls. Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw traces the...
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Today: Turner's suns: Inspired by science?
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5:50
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15/11/11
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A new book, Turner and the Elements, suggests that the painter JMW Turner's depiction of the sun in his works may have been influenced by the groundbreaking scientific discoveries of his day. Contributing writer to the book James Hamilton and Rob La...
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Today: Business News with Simon Jack
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12:13
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16/11/11
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Business news with Simon Jack. Derek Scott, former economic advisor to Tony Blair and Richard Dunbar of Scottish Widows Investment Partnership talk about worrying movements in the bonds of core Eurozone countries. And the Aldridge Foundation's, Honor...
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Today: Brodie Clarke 'I should have checked with May'
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12:53
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16/11/11
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The former head of the UK Border force, Brodie Clark, gives his first interview since quitting following a row with the home secretary over a pilot scheme to relax border controls....
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Today: Toast sandwich: The best budget bite?
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2:55
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16/11/11
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What is the cheapest, most nutritious lunch you can have? John Edwards of the Royal Society of Chemistry reveals the surprising answer....
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Today: Kabul's lost children
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6:58
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16/11/11
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In the third of his special reports from Afghanistan, Mike Thomson focuses on the life of children in a country which has the third highest maternal mortality rate in the world and where around 37,000 children live on the streets....
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Today: 'Here in Syria we are being killed every day'
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9:43
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12/11/11
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There are growing calls for the Arab League to suspend Syria as violence continues in the country. Today reporter Andrew Hosken has managed to hear first-hand about some of the clashes that continue there, and the writer and commentator on Middle...
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Today: Putin's support 'on the decline'
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4:27
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12/11/11
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Vladimir Putin has been defending his decision to stand for the Russian presidency next year: he has been prime minister for the last four years and if he wins next year, as is expected, he could end up staying in power until 2024. The BBC's...
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Today: Abbey Road at 80
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5:07
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12/11/11
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Eighty years ago today the world famous recording studios at Abbey Road opened their doors. They were sold yesterday by EMI to Universal Music Group. Brian Southall, a former director of EMI and author of Abbey Road, looks at its illustrious history....
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'You never think it will happen to you'
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6:16
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11/11/11
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The families of two soldiers killed in combat in Afghanistan remember their sons....
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Louis Armstrong's blues 'filled with spirit'
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4:10
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11/11/11
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A new film based on Louis Armstrong's early years examines how the musician's childhood in the squalor and brothels of New Orleans gave him "something to live for".
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Reporter Tom Bateman met the film's director, Daniel Pritzker....
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Business news with Simon Jack
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12:01
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11/11/11
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The European Central Bank is facing an identity crisis as it tries to tackle the current eurozone troubles. And Carmen Watson, managing director of one of the UK's biggest recruitment agencies, Pertemps, discusses changes to industry regulation of...
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Is the EU 'undemocratic'?
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11:58
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11/11/11
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As Greece and Italy prepare to swear in new, unelected, prime ministers, has the eurozone's democratic dream been forgotten?...
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Today: Business news with Simon Jack
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12:21
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10/11/11
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Shares in the Asian stock market are falling after Italy's cost of borrowing rose to a record high yesterday. And Brian Hilliard, UK economist for Societe Generale, on the worst UK trade deficit on record....
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Today: Robert Peston, Smaller eurozone 'is the road to Armageddon'
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9:03
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10/11/11
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Reuters are reporting a senior EU official saying that there have been intense consultations between France and Germany in recent weeks on a potential reshuffle of the EU. Business Editor Robert Peston discusses what this restructuring might look...
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Today: Poets 'domination' of First World War
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5:02
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10/11/11
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Unpublished poems by World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon have been unearthed by Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Sassoon's biographer. Dr Wilson and Prof Gary Sheffield of the University of Birmingham discuss the historical significance of the discovery....
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Today: 'Photography isn't changing - the world is'
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6:09
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10/11/11
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The photography agency Magnum has brought together unseen contact sheets - rows of negatives printed directly onto paper - together in a new book including works by the agency's founder Henri Cartier-Bresson. Photographer David Hurn, who joined Magnum...
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Today: Business news with Simon Jack
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12:08
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09/11/11
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The reaction of the markets following the news that Silvio Berlusconi has offered to resign. And John Cridland, director General of the CBI, on how to get the Britain's economy moving....
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Today: 'Escalating fiasco' over UK borders
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11:14
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09/11/11
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Brodie Clark, who was running the UK Border Agency during the summer, has denied improperly relaxing the rules and says there were regular three hour immigration queues at Heathrow as a result. Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper gives her view on the...
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Today: Iran's nuclear 'capacity creep'
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7:54
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09/11/11
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The UN nuclear watchdog says it has information that Iran has carried out tests "relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device". Former foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Sir Richard Dalton, former ambassador to Iran, debate how...
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Today: Do you find birds 'uncanny'?
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4:10
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09/11/11
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A new book of short stories has been published which ponders many people's fear of birds. Arts Correspondent David Sillito has been meeting the writers who are raising money for the RSPB by coming clean about their uncomfortable feelings about our...
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Today: EU isolation 'costs jobs, growth and livelihoods'
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12:35
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31/10/11
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The government needs growth. Its hopes of convincing people of economic recovery, while they are in the throes of deep cuts in public spending, depend on signs of job creation and investment. The deputy prime minister Nick Clegg explains how this...
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Today: Adoption process 'frustrating'
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5:30
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31/10/11
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The government wants English councils to do a better job of speeding the process of adoption. Andrew, who has just gone through the process with his wife, explains how difficult it is to adopt a child....
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Today: Are video games an art form?
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4:47
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31/10/11
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The organisers of a new competition for games - the Gamecity prize - are calling for video games to be embraced as an art form. Charlie Higson, the writer of the Young James Bond books was on the panel and the writer Ekow Eshun, former director of the...
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Today: Business news with Simon Jack
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11:47
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01/11/11
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How much has the UK economy grown over the last three months? And the eurozone debt crisis has claimed its first victim - US broking company MF Global filed for bankruptcy after a large exposure to eurozone debt....
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Today: Greek poll 'political blackmail'
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9:58
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01/11/11
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What will the Greek prime minister's plans for a referendum mean for the euro bailout deal agreed last week? Greek MEP Anni Podimata and the Athens Chamber of Commerce's Constantine Michalos debate the country's referendum on the euro debt deal....
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Today: 'Large-scale action' needed against cybercrime
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5:25
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01/11/11
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The government is increasingly worried about cybercrime, with the number of attacks on the rise and companies spending vast amounts trying to protect themselves. Ross Anderson, professor of security engineering at Cambridge University and Misha Glenny...
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Today: Why do August babies lag behind?
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5:59
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01/11/11
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Detailed research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests that there is a big difference between the paths followed by children born in August and September, such as the likelihood to go to a top university or score lower in the National...
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Today: Business news with Simon Jack
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11:08
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02/11/11
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Dominic Rossi, global chief investment officer at Fidelity Worldwide Investment, talks about the sharp fall of the financial markets yesterday after news of the potential unravelling of the EU bailout package agreed only last week. And as markets...
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Today: Finance 'an issue of ethics, morality and God'
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9:12
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02/11/11
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After days of criticism from the public and the press, St Paul's Cathedral has now made it clear it will not be trying to evict anti-capitalist protesters from its grounds, while acknowledging the protestors demands that "something must be done". The...
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Today: Christopher Jefferies 'disturbed' by press slurs
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7:24
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02/11/11
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Joanna Yeates' landlord Christopher Jefferies received damages payments from eight newspapers who branded him a "freak" and "a peeping tom" after being arrested by police investigating her murder. Mr Jefferies, who was released without charge,...
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Today: TV, from 'lookers in' to 3D viewers
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4:51
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02/11/11
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It is 75 years ago that the BBC first broadcast a continuous high definition television service - the TV we recognise today. John Trenouth, a television historian, and Adrian Mars, a technology journalist and futurologist, discuss the long-term...
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Today: Business news with Simon Jack
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11:01
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03/11/11
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Greece will have to decide whether it wants to stay in the Eurozone when it votes on the bailout deal. And Simon Derrick, Head of Currency Research at BNY Mellon, discusses the US Federal Reserve's intention to keep interest rates at record lows until...
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Today: Family justice, in the slow lane
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5:35
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03/11/11
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David Norgrove, who has been given the job of reviewing the way family law works in England and Wales, wants to reduce delays in the courts to a legal limit of six months by asking judges to no longer scrutinise detailed plans for children in care,...
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Today: Oxford pop - more than just Radiohead
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4:31
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03/11/11
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A new film - Anyone Can Play Guitar - aims to put Oxford back on the music scene, highlighting the global success of both Radiohead and Supergrass, but also celebrating the influence of many lesser-known bands. Entertainment reporter Colin Paterson...
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Today: 'It's not just Greece. It's a much deeper problem'
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3:46
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03/11/11
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The French and Germans have told Greece that if they vote no in the referendum they will not get any bailout money and should leave the euro. Harvard economics professor Ken Rogoff analyses what could happen to the eurozone if the referendum goes...
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Today: Business news with Simon Jack
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11:35
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04/11/11
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Barclays boss Bob Diamond's has defended the banking industry during his speech as guest speaker at yesterday's BBC Today Programme Business Lecture. And Georg Grodski, Head of Credit Research at Legal & General Investment Management, on the markets'...
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Today: 'We have to balance being responsible with being competitive'
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20:22
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04/11/11
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In his first in-depth broadcast interview since taking over Barclays, its chief executive Bob Diamond has admitted that Britain's banks "have to balance being responsible with being competitive"....
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Today: Barroso: all problems will be solved
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8:09
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04/11/11
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After a chaotic day in the Greek parliament, it appears there will not be a referendum on the eurozone bailout package, but that Greek prime minister George Papandreou position is in jeopardy. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso tells...
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Today: Osborne, G20 summit is not pre-cooked
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7:14
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04/11/11
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The G20 summit in Cannes has been overshadowed by turmoil within Greece as it seeks to wrestle with its continuing debt problem. Speaking from the summit, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne outlines his hopes, both for a resolution of the...
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Today: 'An awful moment for Greece'
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6:17
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05/11/11
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After a week of turmoil, John Humphrys has been gauging the mood of the young people in front of the parliament building in Athens....
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Today: 'Border Agency is allowing anyone to come in'
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3:24
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05/11/11
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The head of the UK Border Force has been suspended amid accusations of deliberately scaling down some identity checks. Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs select committee, explains why he is unhappy with the revelations....
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Today: Johnny Depp, fame 'doesn't exist without a price'
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7:29
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05/11/11
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Before the writer Hunter S. Thompson shot himself in 2005, the actor Johnny Depp had promised that he would turn one of his earliest manuscripts, called the Rum Diary, into a film. Sarah Montague went to meet Johnny Depp and asked him how he had come...
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Today: Business news with Simon Jack
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12:01
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07/11/11
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The future of the euro as Greece forms a new governement. And David Cumming, Head of UK Equities at Standard Life Investments, analyses the markets....
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Today: Business news with Simon Jack
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12:11
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31/10/11
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As the president of the European central bank steps down after eight years, did the ECB under his leadership do enough to prevent the crisis happening?...
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