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0709 Volker Kauder, a close ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has warned Britain that it would not "get away with" looking after its own interests at the expense of Europe. The BBC's Chris Morris reports from Brussels on how Mr Kauder also insisted that the UK had responsibility for "making Europe a success". 0712 The company conducting the first government-approved test of embryonic stem cell therapy has said it is discontinuing further stem cell work. Dr Dusko Ilic, of Kings College London, explains his concerns about the future of this type of research. 0716 Business news with Simon Jack. 0719 Brad Pitt's new film is based on the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, by financial journalist Michael Lewis. Ahead of its UK release, Times journalist Ed Smith gives his thoughts on the movie. 0723 The British Medical Association is calling on UK governments to ban smoking in cars, something which both the Northern Irish and Welsh governments are considering. The BMAs Dr Vivienne Nathanson and Simon Clark of the smokers' rights group Forest debate the issue. 0727 Sport news with Garry Richardson. 0733 The row between Home Office ministers and the former head of UK Border Force have still not been resolved. The BBC's Danny Shaw examines the evidence Brodie Clark gave to the Home Affairs Committee. 0739 A review of the papers. 0742 What is the cheapest, most nutritious lunch you can have? John Edwards of the Royal Society of Chemistry reveals the surprising answer. 0745 Thought for The Day with Abdal Hakim Murad. 0748 The latest labour market figures show the highest unemployment rate among 16-to-24-year-olds in two decades. Last month we heard from three young unemployed people and their search for jobs. One of them was 18-year-old Nathaniel Trill from Coventry who was made redundant from his job as a trainee engineer. After his interview on the programme he had a couple of offers of help. Zubeida Malik went back to meet him and see what became of those offers. This is an extended version of the broadcast item. 0810 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. And political editor Nick Robinson reflects on Mr Clark's words. 0828 Sport news with Garry Richardson. 0833 K2, which is considered to be the most savage and dangerous of all the Himalayan peaks, is the subject of a series of lectures at the Royal Geographical Society - with all the climbers who have scaled the mountain invited to take part. Climbers Nazir Sabir and Doug Scott, who in 1975 became the first Englishman to climb K2, recount their memories. 0839 Business news with Simon Jack. 0842 Despite being November, swallows are still flying around the south coast, wasps are still buzzing and poppies are still flowering. Stephen Moss, author of Wild Hares and Humming Birds: The Natural History of an English Village, and Professor Tim Sparks, nature adviser to the Woodland Trust, discuss if we should celebrate or worry about this unsettlingly warm season. 0847 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. 0854 Bloggers have come under the spotlight at the Leveson inquiry, with questions being raised about the lack of regulation in the blogosphere. Paul Waugh, editor of politicshome.com and ConservativeHome editor Tim Montgomerie discuss how free bloggers should be to say what they like. ___________________ Thursday 17th November Two thirds of immigrants wives could be banned from coming to the UK under plans to stop them being a burden on the state. The government is ordering the NHS to cut the backlog of patients waiting longer than 18 weeks for hospital treatment in England. Also on the programme, how to cook like someone from the 17th century. 0615 Business news with Simon Jack on news that the Bank of England has cut the UK's growth forecast to just 1% in its quarterly report. 0650 As eurozone countries struggle to come up with a viable solution to fix the economic crisis, a number of different options are being looked at, including closer fiscal integration and an unwinding of the internal market. European commissioner for the internal market Michel Barnier explains what he thinks might happen. 0709 There are around a quarter of a million people in England who have been waiting more than 18 weeks for hospital treatment. Health Secretary Andrew Lansley talks about how the government believes these "hidden" NHS waiting lists are a legacy of Labour's 18-week treatment target initiative. 0713 David Cameron is to announce a new £1m prize for engineering as part of the effort to rebalance the economy. The chairman of the Queen Elizabeth Prize, the president of the Royal Academy of Engineering Lord Browne, explains the idea behind the award. 0716 Business news with Simon Jack. 0722 It has been joked that there should be a "group of debt" in the qualifying stages of football's Euro 2012 tournament for countries, including Italy, Ireland and Portugal, which are struggling with their economies. Business editor Robert Peston examines the connections between football and finance. 0727 Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Football Association has said it is time for Sepp Blatter to step down, following his comments on racism in football. 0731 The Arab League, supported by China, has given the Syrian government three days to agree to a roadmap to end the violence. But President Bashar al-Assad does have one last bastion of support, Russia. Former head of the BBC's Russian service Konstantin Eggert explains why. 0735 It is 50 years since a UN convention declared a war on drugs aiming to create a drug free world. Now, the former head of MI5, Baroness Manningham-Buller, is to join a group of peers in calling for cannabis to be decriminalised in the UK as part of a wider reform of what they say is the outdated campaign. Baroness Meacher, chair of the all-party Group on Drug Policy Reform and Christian Guy, Policy Director of the Centre for Social Justice, discuss how realistic these aspirations are. 0739 A review of the papers. 0743 When and how did the idea of recipe books evolve and what do they tell us about the history of domestic life in this country? Historian Sara Pennell has been trawling through the Wellcome Collection's archive of recipes. 17th century icy cream anyone? 0745 Thought for The Day with Akhandadhi Das. 0750 According to a new study, as many as 1-in-12 people self-harm as teenagers, the majority of them girls. A former self-harmer tells her story and Dr Paul Moran of the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College Hospital gives his thoughts on what mental health charities say is a growing problem. 0810 Two-thirds of the wives of immigrants could be banned from coming to the UK under plans to stop them being a burden on the state. David Metcalf, chair of the Migration Advisory Committee and Danny Sriskandarajah, director of the Royal Commonwealth Society, discuss the implications of such a measure. 0820 There are real fears that inaction in Syria could lead to a situation in which the country dissolves into civil war with potentially disastrous consequences for Syrians and for the wider Arab world. Anne-Marie Slaughter, former director of policy planning at the US State Department, discusses why the Arab League has now been galvanised into action. 0824 There are more than 25 "ghost stations" on the London Underground, including Brompton Road on the Piccadilly Line, which closed in 1934. Evan Davis went to investigate the station with Ajit Chambers, an entrepreneur who is seeking permission to turn it into a tourist attraction, and Mark Mason, author of Walk the Lines, a new book about the tube. 0830 Sport news with Garry Richardson. 0836 It is a day to celebrate engineering with the launch of a huge prize for engineering achievement, the Queen Elizabeth prize. Paul Westbury, who runs engineering company Buro Happold, explains why the status of engineering needs to be elevated. 0840 The 1940s jazz club, Cafe Society, is being recreated at London's Southbank Centre. The Today programme's Nicola Stanbridge spoke to the founder, Barney Josephson's wife Terry Trilling-Josephson, about the legendary New York club which made history for racial integration. And Alex Webb explains why he has decided to recreate it. 0845 Business news with Simon Jack. 0848 International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell is currently visiting in Burma. The BBC's David Loyn is travelling with him and managed to speak to Aung San Suu Kyi about her hopes for upcoming elections. 0851 An airline is investigating claims that passengers were forced into a whip-round to pay to complete their journey from India to Birmingham. Bhupinder Kandra, the majority shareholder in the airline involved Comtel air, told Today presenter Justin Webb that he would not be paying the passengers back, as they were owed the money by travel agents who booked the flight and not by the airline. 0855 Political party funding has come under the spotlight with Nick Clegg ruling out extra state funding, saying taxpayers wouldn't stand for it, while the Committee on Standards in Public Life is to publish a report on it. Steve Richards, The Independent's chief political commentator and Anne McElvoy, public policy editor at The Economist, debate just how far the state should be involved in party funding. Friday 18th November David Cameron is heading for talks with the German chancellor to resolve differences over the eurozone debt crisis. Experts are warning that doctors and patients are over-using antibiotics and fuelling the growth of super-bugs. And also on today's programme, mapping the ghost mountains of Antarctica. 0615 Business news with Simon Jack on Spain's record level borrowing costs as the country prepares for its upcoming elections. 0654 The number of consultants taking voluntary early retirement has jumped by 72% in one year. Dr Mark Porter, chair of the consultants committee at the British Medical Association, explains how dissatisfaction with the NHS may be behind the trend. 0709 The government is consulting on how to simplify the system of school funding, making it fairer and more transparent. As we wait for details on how a new "national formula" might work, Luke Sibieta of the Institute for Fiscal Studies goes through research they have been doing themselves looking at possible outcomes of such changes to school funding. 0712 David Cameron is on his way to Berlin to try to persuade Angela Merkel to drop her opposition to the European Central Bank playing a much larger role in resolving the eurozone crisis. Chris Morris reports from Berlin on Germany's fears of freeing the ECB. 0717 Business news with Simon Jack. 0720 An internal report at the Ministry of Defence has revealed that officials spent nearly £600m on technical advice from money in the equipment budget. Defence Secretary Philip Hammond defends the use of consultants in the MoD. 0723 The UK, along with Germany and France, has tabled a resolution at the UN calling for an end to human rights violations in Syria, as senior figures warn the country could slide into civil war. Syrian writer and broadcaster Rana Kabbani reflects on the crisis. 0726 Sport news with Rob Bonnet. 0732 An estimated £40bn worth of aid has been given to Afghanistan over the last 10 years, most of it to the south of the country where the war is being fought. Mike Thomson reports from the far north of mountainous Bamyan Province, on fears that the coming snows will cut off hunger-stricken villages from food aid. 0739 A review of the papers. 0742 The German chancellor will meet with David Cameron later for talks on the future of the European Union and the EU economy. Stefanie Bolzen, from the German newspaper Die Welt, explains how Germans feel about the ECB taking a stronger role in rescuing the eurozone. 0749 Thought for The Day with Catherine Pepinster. 0752 The European Commission is calling for concerted action to combat the rise in antibiotic resistance in infectious diseases, claiming that as much as 50% of antibiotic use in hospitals may be inappropriate. Professor Mark Enright of the University Bath has been looking at alternatives to antibiotics. 0810 Talks between David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are to focus on the European Central Bank taking a more active role in the eurozone crisis. Dr Michael Fuchs, deputy parliamentary leader of Mrs Merkel's party, defends Germany's tactics. 0816 A new study by the Institute for Fiscal Studies suggests that government plans to change education funding could boost the budgets of some schools, while others see theirs slashed. MP Graham Stuart, head of the education select committee, gives his thoughts. 0820 It has been Yorkshire's anthem since Victorian times, but now a brass band leader is launching a campaign to stop On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at from dying out. Gordon Eddison, a school music teacher and musical director of Otley Brass Band, explains why he is campaigning to keep the song alive. 0828 Sport news with Rob Bonnet. 0830 Omar is a Syrian Army officer who defected to the opposition and is now working with the Free Syria Army. The BBC's Richard Colebourn went to meet him at a safe house in Lebanon, where he is in hiding just across from the Syrian border. 0845 Business news with Simon Jack. 0844 Surfing Soweto is a new film that follows a group of teenagers from South Africa's most famous township whose principle activity is riding on top of trains. Dr June Bam-Hutchison, a South African academic and author and the film's director Sara Blecher talk about the generation of poor South Africans caught between the anti-apartheid movement and slow moving democratic change. 0850 Mushrooms have remained a bit of mystery to researchers, having barely been studied.. Science reporter Rebecca Morelle speaks to researchers who are collecting a database of mushroom DNA so as to prevent them disappearing from the British countryside. 0854 This week two European countries, Greece and Italy, installed so-called technocrat governments. Independent columnist Matthew Norman and Deborah Mattinson, director of Britain Thinks, discuss whether Britain would be better run by a similar administration, and who would be in it. Saturday 19th November A government review has recommended stripping GPs of the right to sign off people on long-term sick leave. And later on the programme, more experiments seem to indicate that it is possible to travel faster than the speed of light. 0709 The government has been told that people who have been claiming sickness benefits for a long time should be assessed differently. Political correspondent Terry Stiasny explains the changes. 0712 Thirty years after the Hollywood actress Natalie Wood died, police in Los Angeles have re-opened an investigation into her death. Alastair Leithead outlines why the incident is being re-examined. 0717 As fresh anti-government protests erupted and France called for the UN to act against President Bashar Assad, the British Foreign Secretary William Hague is set to hold talks with the leaders of the rebellion in Syria. Middle east correspondent Jim Muir reports. 0720 Spain is holding its general election tomorrow and the outgoing Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero will not be standing for a third term. Shaun Ley, presenter of The World this Weekend which will be coming from Madrid tomorrow, examines the current prospects for the Spanish elections. 0722 The Leveson inquiry, which was set up after the News of the World closed following the phone hacking scandal, has been hearing evidence all week mostly about the importance of a free press. BBC correspondent Peter Hunt has been at the hearings where there have been calls for the industry not to be over-regulated and claims that the tabloids operate in an ethical vacuum. 0726 Sport news with Rob Bonnet. 0732 The Guardian newspaper is reporting this morning that Mark Duggan - the man whose shooting triggered the August riots - was not holding a gun at the time he was shot. Home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw analyses this latest twist in the story. 0738 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 needed to the way pensions are sold. 0740 A review of the papers. 0744 The English academic Francis Galton, often described as the father of eugenics, wrote a novel based on the idea 100 years ago that has only just been published for the first time. Dr Matthew Sweet, who has written an introduction to the book, titled Kantsaywhere, explains his view that much of the modern welfare system is rooted in Galtonian thought. 0747 Thought for The Day with the Reverend Roy Jenkins. 0750 David Cameron and Angela Merkel have acknowledged differences over the eurozone crisis but stressed they have the "same plan" for European growth at their meeting in Berlin yesterday. David Rennie, political editor of The Economist, and George Eustice, a eurosceptic Tory MP, debate how Britain's position in the EU is likely to change. 0810 The teaching union NASUWT is the latest to say it will be joining the public sector strike on 30 November along with 26 other unions and more than two million government workers who will not be working on that date. Brendan Barber, the general secretary of the TUC, discusses how much backing there is for the strike. 0817 Albert Einstein's law that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light has come under threat again from the same controversial experiment which had been disregarded by many physicists. Dr Giles Barr, a physicist at Oxford University, explains whether E still equals mc squared. 0821 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 trains for next year's London games. 0826 Sport news with Rob Bonnet. 0832 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 proposed changes. 0838 A review of the papers. 0841 We all borrow interesting and clever phrases from other people: it's how we all communicate, and of course it's what makes the English language so wonderful. The writer and broadcaster Max Cryer has examined the origins of some of our better known sayings in his book Who Said that First? 0848 The second series of the Danish crime series The Killing begins on BBC 4 tonight with the question on everyone's mind on whether the actress Sofie Grabol, who plays the main character Sarah Lund, will be wearing the same snowflake sweater. Gerard Allt, the founder and manager of I Knit London, reflects on why the garment has become so iconic. 0852 The protesters who have been camped outside St Paul's Cathedral for the past month are spreading their wings with some moving into an office block owned by an investment bank that is no longer occupied by them. Veteran campaigner Lindis Percy, and Matthew Sinclair, director of the Taxpayer's Alliance group, debate what lies ahead for the protesters. Monday 21st November Thousands of demonstrators across Egypt continue to protest against the country's current military rulers. The government is to set out its plans to stimulate the housing market in England. Also on today's programme, is a protest song the best way to inspire workers? 0615 Business news with Simon Jack on the economic challenges facing Spain's new government. 0650 President Assad is continuing to take a defiant stand in Syria in spite of pressure from the Arab League countries. James Harkin is one of the few journalists to have reported from Homs, the epicentre of the Syrian revolution and describes the atmosphere there. 0709 Violent clashes are continuing between police and protestors in cities across Egypt as protestors demand that the governing military council return power to a civilian government. Hugh Sykes reports from Tahrir Square in Cairo and Dr Mamdouh Hamza, Secretary-General of The Egyptian National Council reflects on the protests. 0717 The government's new housing strategy is being announced, aiming to kick-start house building, which has declined to a peacetime low in both the private and state sector. Sanchia Berg reports from Stevenage in Hertfordshire. 0721 Business news with Simon Jack. 0725 British Gas owner Centrica has signed a multi-billion pound gas supply deal with Norwegian company Statoil. Managing director of Centrica Energy Mark Hanafin explains the deal. 0726 Sport news with Rob Bonnet. 0732 The prime minister is to announce the government's housing strategy, which aims to make it easier for people to buy their own homes. Shadow chancellor Ed Balls gives his response to the housing strategy. 0740 Airline passengers who need to use airports in parts of southern and eastern England this morning have been warned that their flights could be delayed because of dense fog. Andy Moore reports from Heathrow. BBC airport travel news 0741 A review of the papers. 0744 Beginning a sentence with the word "so" has become a regular occurrence in everyday conversation, and it has not been received entirely positively. John Rentoul of the Independent on Sunday, and author of The Banned List: A Manifesto Against Jargon and Cliche explains why he is not so impressed. 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