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19/08/2015

Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 19 Aug 2015 06:00

Today's running order

0650

New guidance for vloggers will be published today to help them make sure they stick to advertising rules. We speak to vlogger Chyaz Samuels and Guy Parker from the Advertising Standards Authority.

0710

Sebastian Coe has been elected president of athletics' governing body, the IAAF. The election came under a cloud of doping allegations and pressure will be on Coe to clean up and defend the sport. Travis Tygart is chief executive of the US Anti-doping Agency.

0715

Too many students are leaving university and going into jobs that don’t require a degree, a report says. We hear from Ben Willmott from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

0720

The body that makes final decisions on complaints against the NHS says many cases should not have escalated and should have been resolved locally. Brian Stopher was mentioned in the report and Julie Mellor is chair of the Parliamentary and Health Ombudsman Service.

0730

The latest ‘big beast’ from the Labour ranks to warn against electing Jeremy Corbyn as leader is David Blunkett. We speak to him this morning, along with Professor John Curtice from the University of Strathclyde.

0745

The average cost of council cremations has gone up by more than a third in the past five years. David Simmonds is deputy chairman of Local Government Association.

0750

Government health officials want GPs to be able to prescribe e-cigarettes on the NHS once they are cleared by medical regulators.  Public Health England say that vaping is 95% less harmful than tobacco. We speak to Professor Kevin Fenton, national spokesperson for Public Health England.

0810

Sebastian Coe has been elected president of athletics' governing body, the IAAF. The election came under a cloud of doping allegations and pressure will be on Coe to clean up and defend the sport. We speak to Seb Coe and Ed Warner, chairman of UK Athletics.

0820

Our world affairs correspondent Kim Ghattas has spent the last week in Iran. It's the longest time a ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ correspondent has been granted permission to report in Iran since 2009: we hear Kim’s latest report.

0830

On Monday's programme we spoke to the Chief Executive of BT Openreach about broadband speed across the UK. BT Openreach has been criticised for the amount of time it is taking to provide the service to some urban areas, while some rural communities complain they are getting much lower speeds and sometimes no coverage at all. Dr Peter Cochrane is former Chief Technology Officer at BT.

0840

A new exhibition on graphic design is being shown at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea, called ‘Towards an alternative history of graphic design’. Fraser Muggeridge is a graphic designer and the curator of the exhibition. Dr Grace Lees-Maffei is a Reader in Design History at the University of Hertfordshire.

0845

The superstore is dying out. Large ones lie vacant out of town as convenience stores are growing in towns. Matthew Price reports.

0850

The Slovenian band Laibach will play in North Korea tonight to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Korean peninsula's liberation from Japanese rule. They will be the first foreign rock band to perform in the authoritarian state. We speak to music journalist Jude Rogers.

0855

Sebastian Coe has been elected president of athletics' governing body, the IAAF. The election came under a cloud of doping allegations and pressure will be on Coe to clean up and defend the sport. Andy Baddeley is the middle distance runner who is the current British record holder in the 4×1500.

All subject to change.

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  • Wed 19 Aug 2015 06:00