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Sat, 25 May 13
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The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that they are moving to a new headquarters. It will be the Curtis Green Building on the banks of the River Thames. But the Met Police has never actually been based in Scotland Yard. Will Self, author and Professor of Contemporary Thought at Brunel University, has been reflecting on this peculiarity.
Sat, 25 May 13
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Nicola Stanbridge asks whether washing blowing in the breeze can be beautiful, after communal clothes lines that have existed since 1902 were removed from an estate in the Pimlico area of London.
Sat, 25 May 13
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Batool Al-Toma, an Irish-born woman who converted to Islam 25 years ago and Maajid Nawaz, author and co-founder of the anti-extremism think tank, Quilliam, debate if converts to Islam are more susceptible to radicalisation. This is an extended version of the original broadcast.
Sat, 25 May 13
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Six Conservative councillors from the Borough of Merton have quit the party after a comment describing party activists as "swivel-eyed loons" by a senior party member. Councillor Suzanne Evans defected to UKIP and discusses her decision. Richard Stay, a councillor from Bedfordshire did not defect and he tells the Today programme why.
Fri, 24 May 13
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Sarah Churchwell, professor of American literature at the University of East Anglia and Ed Smith, author of Luck and writer for the Times, discuss the notion of quitting while at the top of one's career.
Fri, 24 May 13
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The two men who were shot by police after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich on Wednesday remain under arrest in hospital this morning. It will be some time before the full story of the two men's backgrounds is known but as the Today programme's Tom Bateman reports, attention is already focusing on their past in parts of south and east London.
Fri, 24 May 13
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Business news with Simon Jack on news that the global stock markets were a sea of red yesterday. The FTSE 100 was down more than two per cent, with similar falls in European markets like the CAC in France and the DAX in Germany. In the US the Dow Jones and S&P were down only a touch but the headlines came from Tokyo, where the Nikkei fell by more than 7% on Thursday.
Thu, 23 May 13
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Historian Lord Hennessy says newly released National Archive files are "beautifully written and absolutely candid".
Thu, 23 May 13
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Dame Pauline Neville Jones, a former security and counter terrorism minister, said part of the problem of terrorism in the UK was the amount of hatred preached on the internet.
Thu, 23 May 13
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Wiht the full facts about what happened in Woolwich in south east London yesterday still emerging, the Today programme's Tom Bateman attempted to piece together how the events unfolded.
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