Today: Monday 19th July

David Cameron is to promise today to turn the government on its head by re-launching his Big Society idea. And the Academies Bill, which gives schools the right to opt out of local government control, goes to the commons.

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Through his hedge fund, Armajaro, City trader Anthony Ward has bought £658 million of cocoa beans, the largest single purchase in 14 years. Chris Skinner, who chairs the Financial Services Club and Tim Jones, from the anti-poverty group the World Development Movement, discuss the introduction of new limits to stop speculators influencing the market in coffee, cocoa and wheat.

0650
The Conservative chairman of the Commons Energy and Climate Select committee says the government is being too timid in its climate change policies. Tim Yeo his suggestions for more radical policies.

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The Academies Bill, which would allow schools in England to opt of of local authority, control will get its second reading in the Commons today. The Conservative leader of the Education Select Committee, Graham Stuart, says the bill is being rushed through. Shadow Education Secretary Ed Balls reflects on Mr Stuart's comments.

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The government's chief drugs adviser has said the UK is "floundering" in its attempts to control the online mephedrone market. An investigation for BBC Breakfast found dozens of new substances for sale - all of them still legal - as well as mephedrone, which is now a class B drug. The BBC's Anna Adams tells the story.

0718
Business news with Adam Shaw.

0720
The spirit of Billy the Kid, one of the Wild West's most notorious outlaws, is set to be laid to rest, as the governor of New Mexico is thinking of pardoning him. Tim Sweet, who owns the Billy the Kid museum at Fort Sumner in New Mexico, outlines the governor's proposal.

0723
One of the rarest primates in the world, thought to be extinct, been has been caught on camera for the first time. The pictures of the Horton Plains slender loris were taken in Sri Lanka by the Zoological Society of London and Sri Lankan researchers. Dr Craig Turner, a specialist in finding rare animals at the society, discusses the find.

0726
Sports news with Rob Bonnet.

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The Parole Board says that thousands of people in prison in England and Wales do not need to not be there. In its annual report today it will warn that because of a backlog of cases and an increasingly risk averse society, prisoners are not being released when they should be. The board's chairman Sir David Latham outlines the report's findings.

0737
An oral history project has been set up to get the stories of the pioneers of the surfing culture of the 1960s and beyond. The Surfing Heritage Foundation based in California is hoping to capture some of those tales. The foundation's Steve Pezner reveals whether it was true that the first surfers used ironing boards.

0741
The paper review.

0744
The Prince of Wales will attend a commemorative service at Fromelles Military Cemetery in France for the re-interment of the last of the World War I soldiers originally buried in a mass grave there. The BBC's Christian Fraser and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's David Richardson preview the historic event.

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Thought for the day with Rabbi Lionel Blue.

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The Committee on Climate Change has warned the government that it must ring-fence funds for developing low-carbon technologies, or risk failing to meet its international commitment to reduce greenhouse gases. The committee's chief executive, David Kennedy, outlines its proposals.

0810
The Academies Bill, which would allow schools in England to opt of of local authority control, will get its second reading in the Commons today amid allegations that it is being rushed through the house. The Education Secretary Michael Gove justifies why he is allowing so little time to debate the proposals.

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One of Africa's most celebrated singers, Youssou N'Dour, played a rare one-off concert in London last night. He also used the opportunity to draw attention to the campaign against malaria, a preventable disease that kills a child every 47 seconds. The BBC's Mike Thomson caught up with him just before he went on stage.

0825
Sports news with Rob Bonnet.

0830
Should we be giving almost £300m a year to India - a nation with a space programme and a buzzing economy, but also with high levels of malnutrition? David Mepham, director of policy at Save the Children and Alec Van Gedder, project director at the free-market think tank the International Policy Network, debate aid spending.

0838
Business news with Adam Shaw

0840
The High Court has blocked plans by the Welsh Assembly government to begin a badger cull to try to curb the rising number of cases of TB in cattle. The Badger Trust's Jack Reedy and Stephen James, deputy president of NFU Cymru, debate this highly contentious issue.

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For many older people, the prospect of moving into a retirement home is not one to which they would look forward. The novelist and literary editor Diana Athill, who was born in 1917, recently moved into a retirement home herself and she has been keeping a diary for the Today programme.

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At the 2003 cricket World Cup two Zimbabwe players - Andy Flower who is white and Henry Olonga who was the first black cricketer to represent the nation - wore black arm bands to protest at the death of democracy in Zimbabwe. Olonga, labelled a traitor by the Zimbabwean authorities, had to flee with his family and now lives in the UK. He outlines his experiences in a book, Blood Sweat and Treason.

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The coalition government asked people to say what laws they would like to get rid of. The think tank Civitas has come up with one: the legislation covering religious hate crimes. The report's author John Gower Davis and Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association, discuss the proposal.