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0615
Business News with Adam Shaw:
Angela Knight, chief executive of the British Bankers' Association, discusses why banks matter. Seven Investment Management's Justin Urquart Stewart analyses the markets. And easyJet founder Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou explains his demand that the company pays dividends. 0650 Novelist Nick Hornby
has collaborated with American singer songwriter Ben Folds
to write lyrics for an album. The songs are a series of short stories on subjects ranging from awkward relationships to the isolating process of writing itself. The duo speak to Today reporter Nicola Stanbridge. 0709 The Church of England's ruling synod has decided in favour of creating women bishops. Traditionalists claim the decision could lead many of them to leave the Church of England. The Bishop of Fulham, Father John Broadhurst,
explains why he cannot accept female prelates.
0713 More police officers have been injured
during a second night of violence in Belfast.
In the north of the city, petrol bombs were thrown, and water cannons were used to disperse rioters. The trouble centred around a contentious parade on the biggest day in the Protestant marching season. Correspondent Andy Martin reports on the mood in the city. 0715 Business news with Adam Shaw. 0719 What does it mean when someone who has been sent to jail for a serious crime is let out on licence? Home affairs correspondent, Danny Shaw,
has been speaking to a convicted murderer who is currently on licence.
0724 Greece will test its ability to borrow on the financial markets today with an auction of six-month treasury bonds. This is the first since it was bailed out by the EU and IMF in early May. Business Editor Robert Peston
analyses the current state of the country's economy.
0727 Sports news with Rob Bonnet.
0734
Britain has the worst anti-social behaviour problem in Europe,
according to a new study by the Royal Society of the Arts. The report suggests people, especially those on the front line of public service like park wardens and postmen should be trained in basic community safety skills. Author Ben Rogers discusses the report's findings. 0740 The paper review. 0743 It has emerged that a primary school head teacher in London
was paid more than £200,000 last year.
Today correspondent Louise Hubball reports from Tidemill Primary School in Lewisham.
0744 Cuba's former President Fidel Castro
has made his first TV appearance in almost a year.
The 83-year-old spoke at length on state television's Mesa Redonda Professor Jaime Suchlicki, a historian of Cuba, speaks about Castro's performance.
0748 Thought for the day with Bishop Tom Butler. 0749 What is Ed Balls' distinctive economic offer? The Labour leadership contender speaks to Today presenter, John Humphrys, about the party's economic record and
his alleged role in an aborted "coup" against Gordon Brown.
0810 Britain's most senior policeman Sir Paul Stephenson says
the police are "uncoordinated" and "inadequate" in the way they deal with organised crime.
In the annual Police Foundation lecture in London, Sir Paul said organised crime cost the British economy about £40bn a year. He tells Sarah Montague about tackling the problem. 0817 There has been another night of violence in Belfast as riot police, using a water cannon, cleared a road in north Belfast, where nationalist protesters were trying to block a Loyalist parade. Jimmy Spratt, representative of the DUP in the Northern Ireland Assembly,
gives his reactions to the rioting.
0821 John Webster's 17th century tragedy The Duchess of Malfi
is being performed as an opera for the first time.
Tickets sold out in just six hours. Arts Editor Will Gompertz reports from the dress rehearsal. 0826 Sports news with Rob Bonnet. 0832 Today presenter John Humphrys
investigates the UK's public health system.
He visits Dr Sam Everington's practice in one of the poorest parts of East London, Bromley-by-Bow. 0841 Sir Alan Budd, chairman of the new Office for Budget Responsibility,
appears before the Commons' Treasury Select Committee today
to face questions over the OBR's estimates for job losses. Economics editor Stephanie Flanders previews the session. 0845 Business news with Adam Shaw. 0848 The French parliament will vote today for the first time on
legislation to ban women from wearing the burqa in public.
President, Nicolas Sarkozy, supports the bill, but critics say the government is pandering to far-right voters by taking aim at a tiny minority of Muslim women who wear the full veil. Correspondent Christian Fraser reports from Paris. 0853 Pakistan has confirmed that a missing Iranian nuclear scientist who Tehran says was kidnapped by the CIA, has
taken refuge in Pakistan's embassy in Washington.
Today correspondent Jon Leyne reports on the latest twist in the story.
0855 Doctors have discovered that some patients with brain injuries who were previously thought to be in a vegetative state may actually be conscious. Professor David Menon, an anaesthetics expert from Cambridge University, explains
whether this makes the decision to keep someone alive easier.
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