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Psssst.

Eddie Mair — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:34:36 +0000

Good morning. Flooding still dominates the news, and it's good to hear that the Large Hadron Collider is working again.

But never mind all that. Do you want to know a secret? Our listeners have told us several.

iPM is on at 0545 on Radio 4, or you can podcast us here.

Flooding information.

Eddie Mair — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:01:15 +0000

The Environment Agency covers England and Wales.

There's the Scottish Environment Protecting Agency.

This is where you'll find the Northern Ireland Environment Agency.

The telephone number for the Floodline service for England Wales and Scotland is 0845 988 11 88.

PM Glass Box.

Eddie Mair — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:00:50 +0000

In a real glass box every evening at 18.00, the PM production team meets to discuss the programme that's just finished. You're encouraged to do so here in this virtual glass box.

The Beach.

Eddie Mair — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:00:58 +0000

AM Glass Box.

Eddie Mair — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:00:11 +0000

You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.

Perhaps a question about something in the news you would like answered - or better still, direct experience of something topical. Or maybe there's an aspect to a big story you haven't heard explored that you would like to hear.

The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box?

The PM Glass Box.

Eddie Mair — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:00:00 +0000

In a real glass box every evening at 18.00, the PM production team meets to discuss the programme that's just finished. You're encouraged to do so here in this virtual glass box. Tonight's editor Dan Mitchell will read the comments and may well add his own.

Autumn.

Eddie Mair — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:44:44 +0000

From Gill sent on October 20.

The AM Glass Box

Eddie Mair — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:44:04 +0000

You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.

The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box?

Nils in Malawi.

Eddie Mair — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:30:34 +0000

More from Nils on the programme tonight:

Linda is a nine year old Malawian girl who walks six miles each morning to get to school - we will be telling her story tonight.

Nils talking to the headteacher of a village school in Malawi - we will be hearing how he teaches classes of a hundred pupils at a time.

Break time at a village school in Malawi.

The PM Glass Box.

Eddie Mair — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:27:55 +0000

In a real glass box every evening at 18.00, the PM production team meets to discuss the programme that's just finished. You're encouraged to do so here in this virtual glass box. Tonight's editor Ryan Dilley will read the comments and may well add his own.

The AM Glass Box

Eddie Mair — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:32:44 +0000

You may have read your morning paper and listened to the radio, and have some ideas you want to hear on PM tonight.

The PM team will meet in a real glass box at 11am. Why not be part of the meeting by sharing your thoughts in this virtual glass box?

Thought for the Day.

Eddie Mair — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:01:35 +0000

Media Guardian reports that the BBC Trust has "rejected calls for non-religious contributors to be allowed on Radio 4's Thought for the Day."

We'll talk more about this on the programme tonight. As Media Guardian notes, iPM, the programme that starts with its listeners, talked about this in January.

You can hear the full 22 minute discussion between the Rev. Prof Alister McGrath and Prof AC Grayling here.

Read what the Radio 4 Controller wrote (and listener reactions) here.

And if you're really keen there's even more here.

The BBC Trust ruling is here.

Hugh Sykes in Afghanistan.

Eddie Mair — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:00:03 +0000

"I went to Paghman village near Kabul. The message from there pretty much matches what David Milliband has been saying - that there must be a political strategy there, not just a military one. Though, in Paghman they put it rather more strongly: "British and American troops are wasting their lives here"....

First snow of winter on Paghman mountain.

Paghman bazaar.

Mohammed Shafi's bakery.
And here he is inside, with his team and his oven:

Marbles

13 year old Hijrat, marble champion of Paghman, lining up a shot

Hijrat and his friends.

Paghman elder

Mujahed Hotel

Retired Mujaheddin fighter Mohammed Rahim, with photographs of his two brothers who were killed by Red Army troops. Mohammed told me he and his men had shot down four Soviet helicopters near the village.

A Paghman lane. Cold clean mountain air.

Paghman women."

The PM Glass Box.

Eddie Mair — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:03:46 +0000

Alex Stubb.

Eddie Mair — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:53:45 +0000

He's Finland's Foreign Minister and he's on PM tonight...talking about his country's troop commitment in Afghanistan. He has his own blog you know.