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22/03/2016

Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.

3 hours

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Tue 22 Mar 2016 06:00

Today's running order


0650

'Sexting' among young people is "skyrocketing" but the government is "refusing to protect the smartphone generation", according to Labour. Paul Sanford is lead officer on child protection for the National Police Chiefs' Council.

0655

It is 70 years since George Orwell published his 11 golden rules of how to make the perfect cup of tea, including that milk should go in last. Now Professor Mark Miodownik has come up with a formula for the perfect tea that includes just four rules - which are based on research by physicists, chemists and engineers.

0710

George Osborne will defend his budget for the first time since Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation when he closes the finance bill debate in the Commons later today. John Redwood is former Welsh Secretary.

0715

A hearing due to be held between Apple and the FBI over its ongoing encryption row has been postponed at the request of the FBI. Charlie Miller is a computer security researcher, formerly employed at the National Security Agency, now working in security for Uber. Last year he created an iPhone app with the potential to destroy a user's data in order to highlight security lapses.

0720

A new ITV documentary, Saudi Arabia Uncovered - Exposure, due to air tonight, exposes a largely unseen and disturbing picture of life in Saudi Arabia and raises questions over the UK's close ties with the state. Speaking live in the studio is James Jones, producer of documentary.

0730

Six months ago English rugby was in despair - knocked out of the world cup in the first round. Now it's riding high, winners, for the first time in 13 years, of the Grand Slam. Many people say they have coach Eddie Jones to thank – John Humphrys has been speaking to him.

0750

Three Syrian boys have been reunited with their family in Britain after living in the Jungle camp in Calais for months. The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ’s Zoe Conway reports and we speak live to Yvette Cooper, chair of Labour's refugee taskforce.Ìý

0810

George Osborne will defend his budget for the first time since Iain Duncan Smith’s resignation when he closes the finance bill debate in the Commons later today. Speaking on the programme is Ken Clarke, former Chancellor of the Exchequer.

0820

The government has failed to take action to cut the gender pay gap, according to a group of MPs. Nicola Horlick is CEO of Money and Co. and Alex Depledge started up Hassle.com in 2013 and sold it in December.

0830

More than 1,600 migrants have landed in Greece since a landmark EU-Turkey deal on curbing the influx took effect on Sunday. James Reynolds is the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ’s correspondent in Lesbos and Lyse Doucet is the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ’s chief international correspondent.

0835

For the last six years Osborne has cut the welfare bill in order to bring down the deficit – specifically hitting benefits to people of working age, whilst protecting pensioner benefits. But yesterday the new Work and Pensions Secretary, Stephen Crabbe, said in the Commons the government had no plans to introduce new welfare cuts over and above those which have already been laid out. Kamal Ahmed is the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ’s Economics editor.

0840

The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ has unveiled the microbit, a pocket-sized codeable computer with motion detection, a built-in compass and Bluetooth technology. Gareth Stockdale is head of Operations and Public Affairs at ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Learning – he has worked on the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ microbit project from the beginning. Ross Lowe is a 15-year-old coder who has been working with the project for a few months – he will show John Humphrys how to code the pips that go out at the end of the programme.

0845

One of the UK's top energy experts says the future of nuclear power is not with huge plants like Hinkley, but with mini nuclear reactors so small they could be built in a factory and delivered on the back of a lorry. Environmentalists are warning that small reactors are not yet built - and won't be ready in time to solve climate change problems. Roger Harrabin is the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ’s environment analyst.

0850

The results of a major scientific study has revealed that last year's cooler-than-average summer saw the majority of UK butterfly species struggle. Dr Marc Botham is butterfly ecologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

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  • Tue 22 Mar 2016 06:00