Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple, is interviewed by Kirsty Young. Today, 11/02/2013 In today's programme
Monday 11 February
Plans for the long-term funding of social care in England is officially announced by the government. An abattoir in Romania which slaughters cattle and horses is being investigated as the possible source of horsemeat found in beef meals here. And a round-up of last night's BAFTA award winners.
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The Chinese table-tennis champion Zhuang Zedong has died at the age of 73. Steven Tsang, professor of contemporary Chinese studies at Nottingham University, and Judy Hoarfrost, US table tennis player who toured in China in 1971 and knew Zhuang Zedong, explain that Mr Zedong was a key figure in the ping-pong diplomacy between the US and China in the 1970s.Chinese table-tennis player Zhuang Zedong, who had an instrumental role in the so-called ping-pong diplomacy that led to a thaw in US-Chi...
www.bbc.co.ukHis technique made him the most successful player in the sport's history, as he secured the men's title at three consecutive world champi...
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It's almost 10 years since the invasion of Iraq, and it's an anniversary that's being marked at London's Roundhouse with the beginning of a theatrical epic by one of the world's best known directors, Robert Lepage. David Sillito went to meet him during the final preparations.0844
It will become compulsory for all schools in England to teach cookery to children between the ages of 7 and 14. Anita Cormac, food education specialist, John Vincent, report author and co-founder Leon restaurant chain, analyse the move.Anita Cormac, food education specialist and John Vincent, author and co-founder Leon restaurant chain, analyse the move to make cookery l...
www.bbc.co.ukI went to a Grammar school in the 60's and we had cookery lessons leading to cookery O level - very useful too! Sue Rees
If schools are being required to have cookery lessons, particularly savoury dishes, who is to pay for the ingredients? With food banks increasingly part of the social and economic life of many, finding extra money for cookery ingredients may be too much. Christine Protz
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Afghan interpreters who work for the British military are calling on the government to give them the right to claim asylum because they say they fear their lives will be in danger when UK forces leave. From Kabul the BBC’s defence correspondent Jonathan Beale reports.
The former top commander of all NATO forces in Afghanistan, General John Allen, has told the BBC that Nato members have an obligation to ...
www.bbc.co.ukAfghan interpreters who risked their lives working for British forces in Afghanistan are taking legal action to persuade the government t...
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Author Kathy Lette, and Michael Simkins, actor and writer, discuss the best way to hog the limelight, whether on the stage or at parties.
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Plans for the long-term funding of social care in England will be officially announced by the government today. Christian Guy, Director of Centre for Social Justice, and Andrew Dilnot, author of the Dilnot Report into social care, examine the proposals.
Andrew Dilnot, author of the Dilnot Report into social care, and Dot Gibson from the National Pensioners' Convention, discuss plans for t...
www.bbc.co.ukThe government says it will announce a "fully-funded solution" on Monday to the problem of elderly people in England who cannot afford so...
www.bbc.co.ukAs a 74 year old, I paid National Insurance contributions for the 48 years of my working life, on the understanding that they were the "insurance" contributions funding my present and future social care. It then, laterly, became evident that HMG just put all our NI contributions down the years into the general pot of taxation income. So rather than the new 1.5P in the pound contribution now suggested by your guest this morning, surely the government should come clean that they have had our money once and squandered it? Richard Howlett
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is expected to announce government plans for wide-ranging social care reforms in England in a statement to t...
www.bbc.co.ukI must be out of step with current thinking about paying for care. If I have funds for example a house why should it not be sold to cover the cost of my care. Why should my costs be paid for by others purely to protrect what my daughter can inherit? Why is the ability to pass on our assets so protected at the expense of others?
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Sarah Montague reluctantly thanks Ben Rich for the weather forecast, despite the miserable outlook.May I put a word in for the poor maligned weather forecasters (Sarah Montague's comments after weather at 7.58 this morning)? Accurate forecasting helps us all to plan and stay safe. That's why we say 'thanks' for the weather forecast Sarah! Keep up the good work. Andy Rowley
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Deborah Hallett, director of 90 Degrees, a management-consulting firm, and Lord Haskins, former chairman of Northern Food and a farmer, discuss to what extent the tangled global food supply chain is to blame for the current horsemeat crisis.
French consumer, agriculture and food ministers are to hold crisis talks with key players in the meat industry as the horsemeat scandal w...
www.bbc.co.ukThe FSA advice to continue to eat the contaminated products assumes that those people who have 'fraudulently' used horse meat ensured the health, quality and safety of that meat before committing their fraud. I for one am not prepared to make that assumption.
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The BBC's arts editor Will Gompertz reports on Sunday's Bafta awards.
The shortlist for this year's Bafta Film Awards have been announced in London, with Stephen Spielberg's film Lincoln receiving 10 nominat...
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John and Sarah take a look at this morning's newspaper headlines.
Many of the day's newspapers are taken aback by the government's plans to freeze the thresholds for inheritance tax to pay for the long-t...
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