Insight, analysis and expert debate as key policy makers are challenged on the latest news stories.
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Sat, 18 May 13
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More than a million dollars’ worth of jewellery has been stolen from a hotel in Cannes just as the film festival was getting under way. Peter Bradshaw, the Guardian's film critic, outline if the heist is as impressive as one from the movies.
Sat, 18 May 13
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A campaign which warns women about "sleepwalking into infertility" is being launched today. Kate Garraway, a TV presenter, and Rosamund Urwin, an Evening Standard columnist, discuss whether women are already acutely aware of their ticking biological clocks.
Sat, 18 May 13
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How did the recession impact people's lives in the UK? The Today programme's John Humphrys hears from people from Slough who reflect on their experiences over the last five years.
Fri, 17 May 13
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Has global warming plateaued? As the critics say, the past decade has seen hardly any change in global air temperatures. If warming has stalled, what are the implications for climate change policy? The BBC's environment analyst Roger Harrabin reports.
Fri, 17 May 13
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The UKIP leader Nigel Farage describes protestors who disrupted his party's news conference in Edinburgh yesterday as "fascist scum".
Fri, 17 May 13
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The Fire Brigades Union is sharply criticising a review of fire services in England, commissioned by the government. Its author, Sir Ken Knight, told the Today programme that the number of incidents attended by firefighters has fallen by 40% over the past ten years, while total spending on the service has remained broadly the same.
Fri, 17 May 13
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Business news with Simon Jack on news that the eurozone this week entered its longest ever recession and European business leaders have been meeting at the European Business Summit in Brussels to plot a way forward.
Thu, 16 May 13
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The Home Secretary, Theresa May, has written to the police to say she believes that people who are arrested should not normally be named until they are charged unless there are 'extremely unusual circumstances'.
Thu, 16 May 13
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Inkie, one of the UK's leading graffiti artists, and Mary McCarthy, director at MM Contemporary Arts, discuss the rights and wrongs of selling street art
Thu, 16 May 13
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The BBC has been shown evidence that claims to show a chemical attack in the northern Syrian town of Saraqeb last month. The BBC's Ian Pannel, one of the first journalists to visit the site, gives analysis and reports.
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