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18/07/2010

News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.

News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Paddy O'Connell.

The government's announced that the UK's international aid budget will now be focused on Afghanistan and less on other countries; we hear from a former Indian Foreign Minister on what a cut in UK aid to India would mean for the country and from Hugh Sykes in Kabul.

As police search for the remains of missing women at a house where the serial killer Peter Tobin used to live, the father of one of his victims, shares his story with us.

The Church of England has moved a step closer to ordaining women bishops, BH asks - do all religions have a problem with women in power?

Apparently Peter Mandelson has a book out - we test enthusiasm for it amongst the reading public.

Kevin Connolly reports from Nashville, Tennessee, as it recovers from recent heavy flooding.

And is going to university really worth it? 17-year-old Adam Eliaz doesnt think so, and tells us why he's started his own business instead.

Reviewing the Sunday papers this week are actress Susannah York, author and historian William Dalrymple and journalist Andrew Pierce.

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