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26/01/2015

Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.

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Mon 26 Jan 2015 06:00

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0650

The party that will form Greece's new government, Syriza, has won an overwhelming mandate for its plan to end austerity in the country and renegotiate the terms of its bail out with the EU and IMF. How the rest of Europe responds is really down to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Michael Fuchs is deputy chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.

0710

Further analysis of the election in Greece. Chris Morris is the Â鶹ÊÓƵAV’s Europe correspondent. Simon Jack is our Business presenter. George Osborne is the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

0720

MPs on the Environmental Audit Committee have called for the development of shale gas to be put on hold, saying it would make it virtually impossible to meet climate change targets. There are also huge uncertainties about the effect fracking would have on water supplies, air quality and public health. Joan Walley chairs the Environmental Audit Committee. Tom Crotty is director of the INEOS group.

0730

The general election is 100 days tomorrow. The outcome of local results and success of smaller parties could be even more crucial than ever in determining who governs Britain for the next five years. We'll be hearing from 100 different constituencies on Today between now and polling day to try and to give a picture of how voters around the UK feel about some of the big issues at stake. Matthew Price is our Chief Correspondent live in Thurrock, Essex.

0735

The surveillance camera commissioner for England and Wales believes that the public need to wake up to the implications of advancing surveillance technology. Technology such as facial recognition and algorithms that can predict behaviour and take surveillance capabilities to another level and without public awareness of the nature of surveillance today we can't have surveillance by consent. Tony Porter is the surveillance camera commissioner for England and Wales.

0745

David Cameron took a call from a man who claimed to be the head of GCHQ Robert Hannigan yesterday, only it wasn't. It was a hoax, not the first of the day either. Earlier a hoax caller to GCHQ had managed to get hold of Mr Hannigan's mobile phone number.  Downing Street said it would be reviewing its security. It also reviewed its security back in 1998 when the then Prime Minister took a call from someone claiming to be William Hague but was in fact impressionist John Culshaw.

0750

Tomorrow is the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1940 and 1945, well over a million people perished in its gas chambers or from starvation, punishment beatings or being executed. The vast majority of them were Jews from across Europe. The camp also housed a long list of Hitler's other enemies: Polish political prisoners, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma, and homosexuals. Â鶹ÊÓƵAV correspondent Caroline Wyatt has been to Auschwitz to look for the records of her natural grandfather who survived the camp.

0810

Further analysis of the election in Greece. Yanis Varoufakis is an economist and stood for Syriza in the elections. Anthimos Thomopoulos is CEO of Greece's Piraeus Bank.

0820

Further analysis of the election in Greece. Sir Christopher Pissarides is Regis professor of economics at the London School of Economics.

0850

With many of us still paying off the Christmas bills, the question is how to while away January’s cold winter nights? Crafting has never been more popular and we’ve got a suggestion for you which is relatively cheap and cosy: knitting. Woman's Hour will be looking at therapeutic knitting, You & Yours, takes a look at the consumer side of knitting, the Radio 4 website will offer free knitting patterns & archive programmes on knitting. And here on Today we’re taking a look at the little-known connection between maths and knitting. Lorna Hamilton Brown is an artist who’s been referred to as the Banksy of the knitting world. Matt Parker is a stand-up comedian and mathematician. 


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  • Mon 26 Jan 2015 06:00