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0709 The first full report of the National Audit of Dementia has found that hospitals in England and Wales are failing patients with dementia and overlooking some of their most basic needs. Peter Crome, professor of geriatric medicine at Keele University and chair of the National Audit of Dementia, outlines the findings. 0712 Labour has won the Feltham and Heston by-election, with an 8% swing away from the Conservatives. Chief political correspondent Gary O'Donoghue was at the count. 0715 Business news with Simon Jack. 0717 Carlos the Jackal was convicted late last night in France of four deadly attacks in the 1980s which killed eleven people. Author John Follain, author of Jackal - the Secret Wars of Carlos the Jackal, followed the trial. 0721 A giant experimental fusion reactor is under construction in France that could either provide the answer to the world's energy crisis or be a massive and expensive scientific failure. Paul Henley reports. 0725 Sport news with Rob Bonnet. 0730 A week on from the summit deal to save the euro, how is the political and economic reaction developing? Europe correspondent Chris Morris reports from Brussels and George Magnus, Senior Economic Adviser at UBS, reflects on the effect the deal has had on the economic markets. 0739 A look at today's papers. 0742 Free schools are one of the Government's big ideas for revitalising our education system, but while supporters maintain it widens choice, critics say too often the result is damage to neighbouring schools. Luke Walton has been to one independent school that has been given the go-ahead to become a free school in Sunderland. 0746 Thought for The Day with Lord Harries. 0749 Atheist author and journalist Christopher Hitchens has died aged 62 after a battle with cancer. Labour MP Denis McShane and author Ian McEwan share their memories of him. 0810 Hospitals are overlooking some of the most basic needs of patients with dementia, according to the first national audit of dementia care in England and Wales. Ann Reid describes her experience of looking after both her late mother and husband who both had dementia. And head of policy at the Alzheimer's Society, Andrew Chidgey and Professor Chris Kennard, chair of the Medical Research Council's Neuroscience and Mental Health board, react to the report. 0820 The School of Life in London is offering a new form of therapy, Bibliotherapy, which aims to guide you through the overwhelming choice of literature and teach you how to use books to enhance your life. The Today programme's Justin Webb goes on the couch with bibliotherapist Ella Berthoud to find out what it is all about. 0826 Sport news with Rob Bonnet. 0832 The governor of the French central bank, Christian Noyer, has caused anger by calling for Britain to lose its triple-A credit rating. Eurosceptic Conservative MP Bernard Jenkin gives his view on whether we are seeing a further fracturing of the European Union. 0837 Business news with Simon Jack. 0841 Actress Michelle Yeoh is well known for her roles in Hollywood blockbusters including Tomorrow Never Dies and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. But her most recent film is a biopic about the Burmese Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. She reflects on playing the iconic figure. 0845 Official figures have revealed that more than 1000 primary schools in England are failing to teach reading and maths to an adequate standard. Rekha Bhakoo, head of Newton Farm Nursery, First and Middle School in Harrow, explains how she believes children should be taught to read. 0850 Life in Ambridge, home of Radio 4's long-running radio soap The Archers, may be slow-paced, but it also stands a heightened chance of being cut violently short, research has shown. A study published in the British Medical Journal has found death rates from accidents and suicide were seven times greater than the national average. Medical writer Rob Stepney explains the research. 0855 The UK has been asked to play a role in negotiations over an EU-wide fiscal pact, despite refusing to sign up to the proposed agreement. After a week of political fallout from the Brussels summit, Liberal Democrat peer Lord Oakeshott and Conservative MP George Eustice discuss what the UK should be doing, if anything, to maximise our influence in the EU. Saturday 17th December Credit rating agencies have kept up the pressure on eurozone countries, one agency has said a solution to the debt crisis is beyond reach. The UN has eased sanctions on Libya, clearing the way for billions of pounds to be made available to help the new government rebuild the country. Also on the programme, out on the town on with Christmas revellers. 0709 The paper review. 0712 The credit ratings agencies are sending out the message that they have limited confidence in the Euro deal. One has downgraded Belgium, and another is saying that it is considering a downgrade of six countries. The BBC's Steve Evans tells us more from Berlin. 0714 The UN Security Council has decided to unfreeze the assets of two Libyan banks that had been under the control of Muammar Gaddafi. The move clears the way for the return of more than $40 billion to help the new government rebuild the country. The BBC's Jon Donnison is in Tripoli. 0717 The Scottish Labour Party will elect a new leader today. The BBC's Scotland correspondent James Cook presents us with the latest. 0720 The Democratic Republic of Congo is in the midst of a post-election battle. The supreme court there has upheld the election of President Joseph Kabila, but opposition politicians claim the vote lacked credibility. The BBC's correspondent in Kinshasa Thomas Hubert tells us more. 0722 The Chinese protester who died in police custody over a dispute about landownership is due to be buried today, in a village in southern China that has become a scene of revolt against the Communist Party. Martin Patience, the BBC's correspondent in Beijing and Steven Tsang, director of the China Policy Institute at the University of Nottingham, reflect on the stand-off. 0727 Sport news with Rob Bonnet. 0733 The government reforms to the education curriculum in England are going to include a return to more rigorous teaching of multiplication tables. The Department for Education is confirming reports that children will be expected to know their times tables by the age of nine. Former journalist and now maths teacher in London, Steve McCormack, gives us his thoughts on the government's decision. 0737 Ireland's GDP shrank by nearly two per cent in the last quarter, a performance that will send shivers throughout Europe. Economist Michael O'Sullivan, author of Ireland and the Global Question, explains this sudden drop. 0742 The paper review. 0745 The Leveson Inquiry into the practices of the press has been continuing this week. After initially hearing from those who say they are the victims of the way the press operate, the inquiry has now turned its attention to journalists working for the tabloids who have come in for criticism. This week several former employees of the News of the World gave evidence. Our correspondent, Peter Hunt, reflects on the week's hearings. 0750 Thought for The Day with the Reverend Rob Marshall, an Anglican priest. 0753 Barbed comments have been flying back and forth across the English channel in the follow-up to David Cameron's decision to stay out of the deal to try to save the Euro. Noelle Lenoir, European minister in the government of Jean Pierre Raffarin in the early 1990s explains what she thinks of Cameron's decision. 0810 Last night was said to be Black Friday, the biggest night of drinking ahead of Christmas. In London, the ambulance service have set up a "booze bus", a special clinic fed by ambulances running around picking up drunken partygoers. Our reporter Dave McMullan spent the night there. 0813 A year ago today the actions of one young fruit seller in Tunisia prompted what we now know as the Arab Spring. The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner and Chatham House's Dr Clare Spencer reflect on a momentous 12 months in north Africa and the middle east. 0820 Bands from Abba to Queen have let their hits be used in stage musicals in recent years. Now The Kinks singer and songwriter Ray Davies has written one of these so-called "jukebox musicals" featuring some of the band's best-known songs. But it is not in the West End, his show was written for the pupils of a secondary school in Cumbria who performed it in their village hall last night. Our arts reporter Ian Youngs went along to find out more. 0825 Sport news with Rob Bonnet. 0830 Last week Britain was the only one of 27 EU nations which did not sign up to the deal in principle, but now other countries including Sweden, Hungary and the Czech Republic have expressed doubts about elements of the treaty. So what is going to happen? Elmar Brock, German MEP and former chancellor Lord Lamont debate what they think will and should happen with regard to the treaty. 0838 The Bible Society of the West Indies translated the Bible into Jamaican patois. But traditionalists on the island have accused them of dumbing-down the scriptures. The BBC's religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigott reports, the project has awakened fierce controversy over the role patois should play in Jamaican national identity. 0842 The paper review. 0845 The Scottish Labour Party will get a new leader today. The post became open after the party's heavy defeat to the SNP in the Scottish Parliamentary elections in May. Our Scotland correspondent James Cook reports from Glasgow on the leadership race. 0849 Today at Birchencliffe in West Yorkshire music will be provided by an orchestra consisting entirely of young people who are partially or completely deaf. The charity Music and the Deaf is more than 20 years old. Fiona Lamb from the West Yorkshire Deaf Orchestra explains how deafness is not necessarily a bar to enjoying music. 0854 Today presenter James Naughtie interviewed the late Christopher Hitchens and his equally feisty brother Peter at the 2005 Hay Literary Festival about their controversial views, the Iraq war and religion. Monday 19th December North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has died aged 69. People who apply for mortgages face tougher restrictions under new proposals being published by the City regulator. And also on today's programme, were the riots of this summer a flash in the pan or a sign of things to come? 0615 Business news with Simon Jack on the government's plans to restructure the UK's banks in response to proposals by the Vickers Independent Commission on Banking report. 0650 40 years since Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange was first shown, how have our attitudes to towards violence in films changed? Andreas Whittam Smith, former president of the British Board of Film Classification and Julian Petley, Professor of Journalism and Screen Media at Brunel University, discuss if our tolerance levels for violence in movies has changed. 0709 The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is calling for stricter rules for mortgage lending. Lord Turner, head of the FSA, sets out their plans for banks to scrutinise mortgage applications more closely. 0712 The communist leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il, has died aged 69. Jasper Kim, professor of International Studies at Ewah Women's University in Seoul, reflects on his life and successor. 0718 A mass burial has been organised in the Philippines for people killed by flash floods. More than 650 have been killed and another 800 are missing. The BBC's Kate McGeown reports from Manila. 0721 Business news with Simon Jack. 0724 European finance ministers are to decide whether to approve 200bn euros of loans from the IMF to bail out the eurozone. Europe correspondent Chris Morris has the details. 0727 Sport news with Rob Bonnet. 0734 The communist leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-il, has died aged 69. Aidan Foster Carter, North Korea expert from Leeds University, analyses the succession of Kim Jong-Il's son, Kim Jong-un. 0738 A look at today's papers. 0741 Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg is to step up his warning against Conservative plans for tax breaks for married couples. John Whiting, tax director at the Chartered Institute for Taxation, tracks how such tax policies have fallen in and out of favour with politicians over the years. 0745 Thought for The Day with Clifford Longley. 0748 The number of British black students accepted to Oxford University in 2011 has risen to 32, the highest number in 10 years. Third year student at Cambridge University and president of Black and Minority Students campaign, Akilah Jeffers and Dr Tony Sewell of the charity Generating Genius which helps under-represented groups get into universities, discuss the challenges of increasing the number of black and ethnic minority students going to Oxbridge. 0810 South Korea has put its military on high alert following the announcement of the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il. The BBC's Lucy Williamson reports from South Korean capital Seoul and Former US assistant secretary of state Christopher Hill, who visited North Korea in 2007 and 2008, analyses the country's unclear future. 0818 The Financial Services Authority has announced its Mortgage Market Review, setting out plans to crack down the practise of "risky mortgage lending seen in boom times". Presenter of Location, Location, Location, Kirstie Allsopp and Merryn Somerset Webb, editor-in-chief of Moneyweek, discuss if we are seeing a cultural shift away from house ownership as a main means of investment. 0825 Sport news with Rob Bonnet. 0831 It is a very important day in the dispute between the government and the public sector unions over pensions. Political correspondent Ben Wright reports on what the government is saying about the deadline and Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union outlines the options open to the unions. 0836 The proportion of pupils taking History GCSE in schools has reached an all-time low. Giles Marshall, a history teacher at Sutton Grammar School and Labour MP and historian Tristram Hunt discuss why this may be the case. 0842 Business news with Simon Jack. 0845 A mass burial has been organised in the Philippines for people killed by flash floods. More than 650 have been killed and another 800 are missing. The BBC's Kate McGeown reports from Manila. 0848 Dr Keith Johnston, an academic from the University of East Anglia, has decided to mark the 80th anniversary of Ealing Studios in his own way, by attempting to watch the whole back catalogue of almost 100 films. The Today programme's Justin Webb met up with Keith and the BFI's Ealing expert Mark Duguid to watch the 1944 film We Came To A City at a special screening at the British Film Institute. 0854 As the third son of Kim Jong-il succeeds his father as leader of North Korea, what next for the country? Author of When China Rules the World Martin Jacques and Professor Hazel Smith, expert in North Korea at Cranfield University discuss the prospects for the secretive communist state. Tuesday 20th December A committee of MPs has criticised tax officials for conducting "cosy" negotiations with big companies owing millions to the state. Reports from North Korea say the authorities have imposed restrictions on the movement of the population, as the country's new leader takes power. And also on the programme, we explore the sometimes strange connection between people's names and the jobs they do. 0615 Business news with Simon Jack on allegations that "cosy" deals between HM Revenue and Customs and big companies are costing millions of pounds to the taxpayer. 0655 An unexpected consequence of the summer riots has been identified by the Chief Inspector of Prisons at Feltham Young offenders Institution in West London. Chief Inspector Nick Hardwick says young people jailed for taking part in the rioting are being targeted by other inmates whose family and friends were caught up in the violence. 0709 A committee of MPs has published a report saying there are "serious concerns" about how the taxman agrees large settlements with big business. It comes as tax campaigners, UK Uncut, are taking HM Revenue and Customs to court to try to get them to reclaim millions in tax from Goldman Sachs. Tim Street of UK Uncut Legal Action outlines what they hope to achieve. 0712 The Law Commission, which is responsible for proposing legal reforms in England and Wales, says that small and medium businesses should be able to sue insurance companies for loss of income if there is a late payout. Law Commissioner David Hertzell explains the proposal. 0717 Business news with Simon Jack. 0719 In Bangladesh, the case of a young woman whose husband allegedly chopped off her fingers because she attended college against his wishes has stirred up a debate about how the country addresses domestic violence. Hawa Akhter Jui told her story to the BBC's Anbarasan Ethirajan. Some listeners may find some of the descriptions upsetting. 0723 Sport news with Rob Bonnet. 0729 The secretive nature of North Korea is seen in how little we know about its new leader, Kim Jong-un, who succeeds his late father as leader. Beijing correspondent Martin Patience, reports from the border with China to find out what people are saying about what will happen next. 0735 The Chief Secretary to the Treasury will tell MPs what progress has been made in settling public sector pension disputes with the unions. Political editor Nick Robinson has the details. 0739 A look at today's papers. 0742 Young unemployed people from across Europe are coming to Cornwall to learn traditional crafts such as fishing and boat-building. Jon Kay reports on how it is hoped it will increase their chances of finding work back home. 0747 Thought for The Day with Canon Angela Tilby. 0750 Almost nine-thousand foster carers need to be found next year to avoid a shortfall, according to the charity Fostering Network. Foster carer Karen tells us about her experiences and Robert Tapsfield, Chief Executive of the Fostering Network, outlines the challenges facing this sector. 0810 A report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has criticised the tax authority, HMRC, saying there were "serious concerns" about how some large settlements were reached with big companies. Chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym reports and chair of the committee Margaret Hodge outlines what they found. 0818 Why do some people have names that seem to perfectly fit their job? The New Scientist's John Hoyland explains his theory of "nominative determinism" and prison reformer Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, and the Reverend Michael Vickers explain why they were drawn into their careers. Read more and listen: When the name fits the job 0824 Sport news with Rob Bonnet. 0830 The Financial Services Authority said last week that "good risk management" means planning for unlikely but severe scenarios, and this means that businesses must not ignore the prospect of the disorderly departure of some countries from the eurozone. Chris Renardson of PIPC management consultancy looks at what contingency plans companies should be putting in place if the collapse of the euro is a possibility. 0840 Business news with Simon Jack. 0843 According to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT), banks and companies selling foreign currency have been charging travellers too much. Clive Maxwell of the OFT outlines a new deal which means that banks will no longer be able to charge customers who used debit cards to buy currency. 0847 The musician Laura Marling told an audience on her current tour that she will not be doing a planned encore. Andrew Harrison, editor of the music magazine The Word, and music writer Dave Simpson discuss whether spontaneous encores have become a thing of the past. 0853 In the government's dispute with unions over pensions, council workers and staff in the NHS look like they have reached a deal, but the largest teaching and civil service unions are still at loggerheads. Economist and columnist Will Hutton and Tom McPhail, a pensions analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, discuss what it means for pensions in the future. Wednesday 21st December On the final day of the Leveson Inquiry before breaking for Christmas, we hear from two witnesses. A cross party group of MPs wants the government to re-think its shake-up of planning laws in England. Also on today's programme, should the skeleton of Charles Byrne, known as the Irish giant, be buried at sea? 0615 Business news with Simon Jack on credit rating agency Moody's confirmation that the UK is to retain its triple A credit rating. 0654 Production of frankincense could be cut by half in the next 15 years due to steep declines in the number of the trees that make the resin. Dr Frans Bongers, frankincense expert at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands, explains. 0709 The Russian parliament is meeting for its first session after a controversial election that saw Vladimir Putin's ruling party win a reduced majority and sparked mass protest over alleged vote-rigging. Moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg reports from outside the Duma. 0712 The Leveson Inquiry will hear its last day of evidence today before stopping for Christmas. The BBC's Peter Hunt has been covering the inquiry from the start and takes a look back at some of the key moments. 0717 Business news with Simon Jack. 0720 Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has told Conservative MP Peter Bone to drop his "morbid fascination" with David Cameron's death after Mr. Bone repeatedly asked who would take over at Number 10 should the PM be killed. Mr Bone explains what is behind his inquiries. 0724 Sport news with Alison Mitchell. 0731 A committee of MPs has criticised the government's controversial planning reforms, saying it puts more emphasis on economic growth than the environment or society. John Stewart, Director of Economic Affairs at the Home Builders Federation, and Alister Scott, Professor of Spatial Planning and Governance at Birmingham City University, debate the pros and cons of revamping the planning framework. 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