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  • Business news with Simon Jack

    Fri, 10 Feb 12

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    Georg Grodzki, head of credit at Legal and General, correspondent Michelle Fleury, and Paul Thandi, chief executive of The NEC Group.

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  • Redknapp 'will want the job'

    Thu, 9 Feb 12

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    Fabio Capello has resigned as England football manager, hours after the favourite to replace him, Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp, was cleared of tax evasion charges. Former FA chief executive David Davies and Telegraph football correspondent Henry Winter debate the change at the top of English football.

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  • Death and hysteria in Homs

    Thu, 9 Feb 12

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    The city of Homs in city is in a state of brutal civil war, with civilians bearing the brunt of an army onslaught. After being smuggled out of Syria, the BBC's Paul Wood reflects on his time reporting from inside the embattled city.

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  • Why is the number of children in care rising?

    Thu, 9 Feb 12

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    Since the Baby P case hit the headlines in late 2008, there has been a significant rise in the number of children in England being taken away from their parents and put into care. Bristol social worker Anne Farmer explains what the marginal care cases look like. Matt Dunkley, president of the Association of Directors of Children's Services, and Christina Blacklaws, a lawyer specialising in this area, debate what the trend means.

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  • Business news with Simon Jack

    Thu, 9 Feb 12

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    Simon Jack interviews Christian Shulz from Berenberg Bank, James Bevan Chief Investment Officer at CCLA Investment Management and Theresa Wise, Independent Media Analyst.

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  • Is Qatari comedy any laughing matter?

    Wed, 8 Feb 12

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    The Arab Spring has seen a new permissiveness across the Middle East but jokes about the ruling emir and his ministers, and even the World Cup, are still not allowed in Qatar. Kevin Connolly reports from the autocratic Gulf state.

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  • Paul Wood: Despair in Homs

    Wed, 8 Feb 12

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    Opposition activists in the Syrian city of Homs say more than 40 people have already been killed today in shooting and shelling by government forces. The BBC's Paul Wood has been in Homs for the last few days and explained that locals say the shelling is heavier now than it has been since the beginning of the uprising.

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  • Hester: I am not a robot

    Wed, 8 Feb 12

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    In his first broadcast interview since turning down his bonus, the RBS boss explains how he considered resigning and why defusing the "time bomb" of the RBS balance sheet is good for the UK.

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  • Business news with Simon Jack

    Wed, 8 Feb 12

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    11 mins

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    The European Central Bank has made some key concessions to help solve the Greek debt crisis. And more than 100 London-based bankers are suing Germany's second-largest bank Commerzbank for breaking a pledge made months before the takeover to pay them 52 million euros in bonuses.

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  • Simon Callow reads Dickens

    Tue, 7 Feb 12

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    It is 200 years to the day since Charles Dickens was born, and to mark the occasion, actor Simon Callow reads an extract from The Pickwick Papers.

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