
09/10/2017
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0650
At least 350,000 people gathered in
Barcelona, capital of Catalonia, for a rally against independence. Tom
Tugendhat is a Conservative MP and chair of theForeign Affairs Select
Committee.
0655
A Scottish man Jamie Harronwhois facing a
three-year jail sentence in Dubai after putting his hand on a man in a bar so
he did not “bump and spill drinks” has appeared in court. Radha Stirling is the
chief executive of Detained in Dubai.
0710
Reports from Catalonia suggest the
regional government there may not declare independence from Spain this week.
Alfred Bosch is MEP forthe pro-independence Republican Left of Catalonia.
0715
Theprimeminister will
today update MPs on the contents of, and progress since, the speech in
Florence. The fifth round of Brexit negotiations will get under way in Brussels today as well, but without David Davis - who won't attend until the
end of the week.Nick Clegg is the former deputy prime minister and author
of the new book How to Stop Brexit.
0720
The Lord Mayor of London, Dr Andrew
Parmley, is visiting Dublin to try and strengthen ties between the UK and
Ireland in the financial and related professional services sector.
0725
The SNPismeeting for
annual conference in Glasgow. Oneofthe key domestic issues they’ll
need to tackle is education as Scotland’s results have slipped markedly in the
last decade.Lindsay Paterson is a
professor of education policy at the University of Edinburgh.
0730
A foster carer will today issue a
potentially landmark legal claim in order to have foster carers recognised as
workers.Sarah Anderson is engaged by Hampshire County Council but does
not have worker rights such as paid holidays.She joins us on the
programme.
0740
Classical music has a reputation for
being difficult to understand and inaccessible to the uninitiated. But the
broadcaster and violinist Clemency Burton-Hill argues that this doesn’t have to
be so.Clemency Burton-Hill isRadio 3’s Breakfast show presenter,
violinist and author of Year of Wonder: Classical Music for Every Day.
0750
Theprimeminister will today update MPs on the contents of, and
progress since, the speech in Florence. The fifth round of Brexit negotiations
will get under way in Brussels today as well, but without David Davis
- who won't attend until the end of the week.Bernard Jenkin is a
Conservative MP.
0810
Reports from Catalonia suggest the
regional government there may not declare independence from Spain this
week. Catalan government sources have said there may be a symbolic
recognition of the result of last weekend's referendum but - for now - no
decision to break away. Francisco Martinez Vazquez is a People's Party MP,
former Spanish security minister and a professor of constitutional law.
0820
The SNP will call on the chancellor
to stand up to right wingers in his party and invest in public services in next
month’s budget. At the party's autumn conference in Glasgow, the SNP
leadership will suggest that austerity at Westminster is placing a strain on
the Scottish government's finances. Nicola Sturgeon is the first minister of Scotland.
0830
The Green Party in England and Wales
holds its conference in Harrogate today. Its co-leader Jonathan Bartley will
say in his speech that the party have set the agenda on issues fromthelivingwage
to refugees.He joins us on the programme.
0840
Oscar-Winning film producer Harvey
Weinstein has been dismissed from the Weinstein Company "in light of new
information about misconduct,"the board of directors has announced.
Naomi Wolf is anauthor, feminist and political activist.
0850
Conservative MP Sir Nicholas Soames
– the grandson of Sir Winston Churchill – has just returned from Zimbabwe,
following in the footsteps of his father who was the transitional governor
there in 1979. He joins us on the programme.
0855
The SNP will call on the chancellor
to stand up to right wingers in his party and invest in public services in next
month’s budget.Richard Walker is a consulting editor with The National
Newspaper and David Cleggis thepolitical editor ofTheDaily
Record.
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