
21/07/2017
Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
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0650
Over 93,000 people are estimated by the United Nations to have arrived in Italy by boat since the beginning of the year and the Italian government says it needs more help from Europe. Romani ProdiÌýisÌýformer Italian prime minister.
0655
The lead singer of the American rock group, Linkin Park, has died in an apparent suicide.ÌýBen Beaumont-Thomas is music editor of the Guardian.
0709
Controlling post-Brexit immigration will be a struggle for theÌýgovernment as the current data does not provide an accurate picture of how many migrants enter or leave the country each year. Alistair Darling is former labour chancellor.
0715
Former US football star and actor OJ Simpson has been granted parole after nine years in a Nevada prison. Carl Douglas is a lawyer andÌýone of the defence attorneys in theÌýO. J. Simpson murder trial in 1995.
0720
National Air Traffic Services (NATS) expects to handle a record-breaking 8,800 flights today and more than 770,000 overall during the course of the summer.ÌýMartin Rolfe is chief executive of NATS.
0725
A glimpse of Sheffield’s steel-making past has been unearthed at two archaeological sites and will be available for public view only for today. Mili Rajic is a senior project officer for Wessex archaeology.
0730
Only a fraction of the tens of thousands of migrants who have made it to Europe this year actually try to come to England. Our chief correspondent Matthew Price has been following the migration trail through Italy and France - and now he's entering England.
0740
When Shakespeare compared thee to a summer’s day was he addressing a man or a woman? And what did it tell us about the bard’s own sexuality?ÌýGreg Doran is artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
0750
Two of the largest dark web marketplaces associated with the trade in illicit items such as drugs, weapons, malware and stolen data have been shut down following an international law enforcement investigation. Wil Van Gemert is deputy director of Europol and Zoe Kleinman is the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½â€™s technology correspondent.
0810
EnvironmentÌýSecretary Michael Gove will set out in a speech today that farmers should be rewarded for how much they do for the rest of us, not just for how much land they farm. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½â€™s political correspondent isÌýRoss Hawkins andÌýRoss Murray is president of the Country Land and Business Association.
0820
Renowned photographer, Harry Benson, has captured some of the most significant moments in America's social, political and cultural history over the last 50 years. A book of his pictures called Persons of InterestÌýwill be released in autumn. Today’s James Naughtie has been talking to Harry Benson.
0825
Hannah Cockroft a British wheelchair racer won her third gold medal of theÌýWorldÌýPara-AthleticsÌýChampionships last night.
0830
South Korea has offered to hold military talks with North Korea today.Ìý If they go ahead these will be the first high level talks since 2015.Ìý Park Hwee-RhakÌýisÌýaÌýformer South Korean Colonel who was an adviser to the previous South Korean government.
0845
A 64-year-old grandad from East Yorkshire could win six million pounds in World Series of Poker in Las Vegas despite never playing professionally.ÌýJohn HespÌýis a grandad from East Yorkshire.
0850
A six-year-old lion with several young cubs called Xanda was reportedly shot on a trophy hunt only two years after Cecil the lion was killed by a trophy-hunter in Zimbabwe. Dr Andrew Loveridge works at theÌýdepartment of zoology at Oxford University.
0855
Farmers should no longer get subsidies just for owning land. And that argument is being made this morning by the farmers themselves.ÌýJamie Whyte is director of research at the Institute for Economic AffairsÌýand Molly Scott Cato is a former professor of Strategy andÌýSustainability.
All subject to change.
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- Fri 21 Jul 2017 06:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4