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11/09/2017

News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

3 hours

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Mon 11 Sep 2017 06:00

Today's running order


0650

A new book out argues that those born between 1995-2012, the 'i-gen', are psychologically insecure, mentally fragile, and more likely to kill themselves than each other. Andrew Przbylski is from the department of psychology at the Oxford Internet Institute

0655

Cycling UK is urging government to raise the awareness of what’s known as car dooring, which is when someone opens a door into the path of a cyclist. Duncan Dollimore is head of campaigns and advocacy at Cycling UK and Jeff Boulton is father of Sam Boulton, the Leicester school teacher who died as a result of a car-dooring two years ago on his birthday.

0710

Hurricane Irma is blasting up the west coast of Florida and is now bearing down on the city of Tampa. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½â€™s Barbara Plett-Usher reports and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman–Schulz is representative for Florida’s 23rd congressional district.

0715

As part of London International Shipping Week, Maritime UK and other industry heads are today meeting the PM, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling and Trade Secretary Liam Fox at No.10 to discuss how maritime can better support UK trade post-Brexit. David Dingle is chairman of Maritime UK.

0720

MPs will carry on their debate of the EU Withdrawal Bill and vote late tonight. Labour’s Caroline Flint is former minister for Europe under Gordon Brown.

0725

A new book out argues that those born between 1995-2012, the 'i-gen', are psychologically insecure, mentally fragile, and more likely to kill themselves than each other. Columnist Matthew D’Ancona has been speaking to author Jean Twenge.

0730

General secretary of the Trades Union Congress Frances O’Grady will today tell an annual congress in Brighton that long-term single market membership is the best option for workers and that the prime minister is not negotiating like a grown-up.

0740

Sixty years ago, in the same year that this programme was born, a young actress called Judi Dench was making her debut in the professional theatre - as Ophelia in Hamlet. John Humphrys has been speaking to Dame Judi Dench about her career and her latest film about Queen Victoria.

0750

If your five or six-year-old comes home from school and tells you that one of their classmates has gone from being a boy to being a girl, how would you react? Nigel and Sally Rowe have taken their child out of primary school pending a review of how the school has handled another child’s request to be recognised as transgender.

0810

Fifty police officers are flying to the UK's overseas territories to help restore order after Hurricane Irma. Geoffrey Scott Baker is the father of Amy Brown, who is stranded on the British Virgin Islands, and Boris Johnson is the foreign secretary.

0820

Sir Simon Rattle, conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic for 15 years, is coming back to be music director of the London Symphony Orchestra, which welcomes him with a two-week festival of concerts starting on Thursday. James Naughtie has been speaking to him in Berlin about coming home.

0830

The devolution referendum, which led to the creation of the devolved Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, took place twenty years ago today. Has it been a success? Kezia Dugdale is former leader of the Scottish Labour Party and Alex Salmond is former first minister of Scotland.

0835

The foreign minister of Bangladesh has described Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya MuslimsÌý as "genocide". The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½â€™s South Asia correspondent Justin Rowlatt reports from Teknaf, close to the border.

0840

The British contemporary artist Rachel Whiteread was the first woman to win the Turner Prize in 1993. A major retrospective exhibition opens at the Tate Britain this week with her small and large scale works, old and new. She spoke to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½â€™s arts editor Will Gompertz.

0845

Since 2014 the former Prime Minister of Australia Julia Gillard has been chairwoman of the Global Partnership for Education. She is in the UK as part of their Replenishment 2020 Campaign – they hope to scale up their funding to $2bn a year by 2020.

0850

A new book out argues that those born between 1995-2012, the 'i-gen', are psychologically insecure, mentally fragile, and more likely to kill themselves than each other. Scarlett Curtis is Times Style columnist and writes the Gen Z hit list. Kwasi Kwarteng has been looking into how to engage more young voters for the Conservatives.

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All subject to change.

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  • Mon 11 Sep 2017 06:00