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Author Annabel Abbs-Strreets joins Megan Lynch talking about her new book that hits the shelves today 'SLEEPLESS: Unleashing the Subversive Power of the Night Self'    Credit: © Press Association

KMOX Business Analyst Jerome Katz, SLU/Chaifetz School of Business joins Megan talking about family issues including home prices and what are kids watching.     Credit: © Press Association

On 16 March 2002, Sheffield United vs West Bromwich Albion, at Bramall Lane, became the only match in English football history to be abandoned due to a shortage of players. After three Sheffield players were sent off, two got injured, meaning they were down to six men. Rachel Naylor speaks to referee Eddie Wolstenholme, who was forced to call the game off. (Photo: Referee Eddie Wolstenholme, caught in the middle of a melee between Sheffield United and West Bromwich Albion players, at Bramall Lane. Credit: Press Association)

Overcrowding in British asylum centre leads to violence and disease, as interior minister, Suella Braveman, defends her policies. Also in the programme, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Gujarat, where more than 140 people died after a footbridge collapsed. And, a famous football, with which Diego Maradona scored an infamous goal in 1986, goes up for auction. (Photo: Migrant in the UK. Credit: Press Association)

In November 1992, a fire devastated Windsor Castle - a symbol of the British monarchy and Queen Elizabeth II's weekend home. Coming at the end of a year of family problems, the blaze upset the Queen deeply and led her to declare 1992 her ‘annus horribilis'. In 2012, Simon Watts spoke to Sir Hugh Roberts, one of Her Majesty's art experts. (Photo: Windsor Castle on fire. Credit: Press Association)

In August 1969 the British Army was first deployed in Northern Ireland. Their job was to keep the peace on the streets of Londonderry where sectarian violence had broken out. To begin with the soldiers were welcomed by residents, but attitudes soon changed and what became known as 'The Troubles' got underway. Louise Hidalgo reports. Picture: Armed British soldiers on the streets of Northern Ireland, 15th August 1969 (Credit: Press Association)

Evacuations from Kabul airport in Afghanistan pick up pace, with the total number leaving since the Taliban takeover reaching 70,700. US President Joe Biden says he aims to complete the operation and US troop pull-out by the 31st August deadline. Today's Mishal Husain speaks to the UK foreign secretary, Dominic Raab as well as an interpreter who worked for British forces in Helmand province and is desperate to get out of Afghanistan before the Taliban find him. Today's Justin Webb also speaks to General Lord Richards, former Chief of Defence Staff who commanded the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan between 2006 and 2007. (Image: Boarding of British military plane at Kabul airport, Credit: Press Association)

Danish football player Christian Eriksen has posted a picture from his hospital bed with a thumbs-up and has made his first comments since suffering a cardiac arrest during the Euros. BBC Sports presenter Gabby Logan's family went through the tragedy of losing her 15 year old brother Daniel 29 years ago and she has written a post highlighting the importance of raising awareness and how important football was to her brother. Justin Webb spoke to Gabby. (Image: Gabby Logan, Credit: Press Association.)

The G7 group of advanced economies has reached a "historic" deal to make multinational companies pay more tax in the countries where they do business. Justin Webb speaks to the BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam as well as Mathias Cormann, the new Secretary General of the OECD, which has to come up with the details of a system for a global minimum corporation tax rate. Mishal Husain is also joined by former Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. (Image: G7 Finance Ministers meeting, Credit: Press Association)

There are now 86 local authorities which have five or more confirmed cases of the Indian variant of COVID-19 and Downing Street has said the review of social distancing rules in England could be delayed. Amol Rajan speaks to Professor Steven Riley, professor of infectious disease dynamics at Imperial College London about this strain of the virus. Mishal Husain speaks to Kevin Fenton, London Regional Director for Public Health England about the picture in London which has multiple cases of the Indian variant in four boroughs. She also speaks to Vicky Head, Director of Public Health for Bedford Borough Council as the borough has been identified by the Health Secretary as the next biggest cause of concern. (Image: Queue for COVID-19 Mobile Testing Unit, Credit: Press Association)

Arlene Foster will step down as Democratic Unionist Party leader on 28 May and as first minister at the end of June. She was the first female leader of the DUP. Now that the DUP has begun electing its new leader, BBC's Ireland correspondent Chris Page heard the public's reaction to her resignation. Nick Robinson spoke to former Northern Ireland secretary Julian Smith, who brokered a deal which restored power-sharing administration in Storment, about the announcement. He told R4 Today programme he believes the DUP "is at crossroads of needing to continue down the pragmatic path" (Image: Arlene Foster in Stormont, Belfast; Credit: Press Association)

The UK government has set up the new UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) which began it's work on Thursday. It brings together Public Health England (PHE), NHS Test and Trace and the Joint Biosecurity Centre (JBC). Dr Jenny Harries, who has stepped down as England’s deputy chief medical officer and been appointed Chief Executive of the UKHSA. She spoke to Today programme's Justin Webb about the mission of the new agency and how it will protect the UK from future pandemics. (Image: Dr Jenny Harries, Credit: Press Association)

The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities said that while there was anecdotal proof, there was no actual evidence of institutional racism. The report found social class and family structure had a bigger impact on how people's lives turned out. The commission was set up in response to anti-racism protests across the UK last summer following the death of George Floyd in the US. Nick Robinson spoke to Dr Tony Sewell, chairman of the independent Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, Matthew Ryder QC, former deputy mayor of London who represented the family of Stephen Lawrence, as well as Katharine Birbalsingh, head teacher of the Michaela school in north London and Sathnam Sangera, author of EmpireLand: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain. (Image: Demonstrator in Leeds, Credit: Press Association)

Following the Sarah Everard case, what is it like for families who experience the pain of a loved one's death which is highly publicised? Nina Gross, whose sister Alice Gross was murdered seven years ago when she was 14, spoke to Mishal Husain about how her family has coped with Alice's death. (Image: Alice Gross, Credit: Press Association)

Ahead of the Budget, a committee of MPs is urging the government to overhaul the tax system to encourage people to buy products and services that don’t cause harm to the environment (Image: UK housing: scaffolding at a building site / housing development - new-build houses under construction. Credit: Press Association

Is the City of London losing out to Europe post-Brexit? (Image: people walk on the south bank of the River Thames, in London during a snow shower. Credit: Press Association)

Francis Bacon painted distorted and disturbing images but his works are now widely considered one of the great achievements of post-war British art. Vincent Dowd has been trawling through the BBC archives listening to Bacon talking about his work, and gaining an insight into his Bohemian, hard-drinking ways. Photo: Francis Bacon in London in 1970. Credit: Press Association

Might the Budget - just three weeks away - contain a plan for a windfall tax on firms that have done well during the pandemic - online retailers, and perhaps even supermarkets? (Image: an empty high street in Guilford, Surrey. Credit: Press Association)

How might negative interest rates hurt banks? (Image: the bank of England on a rainy day in London. Credit: Press Association)

How are Northern Ireland businesses experiencing the new trading arrangements so far? (Image: lorries in the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) site near Belfast port, Credit: Press Association)

The economic costs of school closures amidst the pandemic could be huge. 2 billion school days have been missed so far around the world, and millions more are to come. Experts are warning of a lost generation with many children losing key skills to earn their way out of poverty. Even in the rich world, this cohort could see their future incomes fall considerably. So are governments paying enough attention? Does education have to be the trade off for public health and the economy in the pandemic? We hear from Stefania Giannini Assistant Director-General for Education, UNESCO who tells us that disadvantaged children will suffer the most, whilst Dr Randa Grob Zakhary, CEO, Insights for Education says that different countries have taken different approaches to education during the pandemic with starkly different results. Nisha Ligon is the co-founder of Ubongo, Africa’s biggest EdTech non-profit, who has had a busy year filling the demand for home learning in African countries with limited access to modern technology. Plus educational economist Eric Hanushek, a fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University has been crunching the numbers on the impact on GDP and personal earnings for the current cohort of school children being locked out of school. (Image: School gates with closed sign. Credit: Press Association)

The online fashion retailer, Boohoo, has bought the Debenhams brand and website. But it won't be taking on the company's stores or its remaining 12,000 staff (Image: a person walks passed a Debenhams store in Glasgow. Credit: Press Association)

Are we likely to run short of fresh produce because of the problems at the French border? (Image: trucks parked on the M20 motorway near Folkestone on Monday after the Port of Dover was closed. Credit: Press Association)

What is behind all the delays at UK ports and how long might they continue? (Image: shipping containers are unloaded from a cargo ship at the Port of Felixstowe in Suffolk. Credit: Press Association)

Schools in two London boroughs are open again today, after announcing earlier this week that all lessons were moving online. Education Secretary Gavin Williamson ordered the boroughs to keep all schools open for the final week of term. Figures released today show that attendance overall in schools in England is averaging only 80 percent. Mishal Husain has been back to Wales High near Sheffield, which she visited back in September, to find out what education has been like in the pandemic. Credit: Press Association

The British prime minister, Boris Johnson, and the European Commission president, Ursula Von der Leyen, are holding crucial talks to see whether a post-Brexit trade deal can be struck. Over dinner in Brussels, they're discussing the critical differences that have resulted in stalemate, three weeks before a deadline for agreement to be reached. Also on the programme; more on the attempts to reduce COVID-19 inequalities in Washington DC; and we hear about the first black dancer at Germany’s top ballet company who says she’s faced persistent racism (Picture: Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen, Credit: Press Association )

Non-essential shops across all three tiers re-open in England for the first time in a month - what are retailers expecting today? (Image: Christmas lights on Regent Street, central London. Credit Press Association)

What does administration mean for those employed by the Arcadia Group? (Image: a man walks past the Topshop flagship store at Oxford Circus, London, part of the Arcadia Group. Credit: Press Association)

What economic impact will the new coronavirus tier restrictions have? (Image: A Christmas tree behind a coronavirus sign, during the second lockdown, London. Credit: Press Association)

What impact will the Spending Review have on employment in the UK? (Image: Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak leaves 11 Downing Street, London, ahead of delivering his one-year Spending Review in the House of Commons. Credit: Press Association)

The government has set out plans for what it's calling a "green industrial revolution" to tackle climate change and create hundreds of thousands of jobs. How feasible is it? (Image: electric vehicle charging points. Credit: Press Association)

Senator Ted Kaufman, the head of Joe Biden’s transition team, told Nick Robinson that Mr Biden “doesn’t understand the whole grudge concept’ and Boris Johnson’s relationship with Donald Trump will not be held against him. Senator Kaufman went on to say: “Boris Johnson called him up early to congratulate him, when other world leaders were concerned that Trump wasn’t out.” He added: “I think that was a very smart move on Boris Johnson’s part.” Photo: Ted Kaufman. Credit: Press Association

With pandemic restrictions seeing offices and city centres emptying out - what does this mean for the commercial property sector? (Image: Land Securities owns several central London assets including Piccadilly Lights, above, and the property behind it. Credit: Press Association)

What do businesses think about the current status of the trade talks with the EU? (Image: EU and Union flags. Credit: Press Association)

What would the loss of England smaller football clubs mean? To find out, Nick Robinson travelled to Lancashire, to the home of Accrington Stanley to do something no fan is allowed to do - watch them play local rivals Rochdale. He also spoke to the chief executive of Aston Villa, Christian Purslow, ahead of a meeting to discuss controversial plans put forward by Manchester United and Liverpool to reform the Premier League. Those clubs have been accused of exploiting a crisis to accrue more power and money, although head of the English Football League says the plan will save smaller clubs from financial ruin cased by the pandemic. Mr Purslow said it was in his opinion "highly unlikely" that the plan will "get much traction within the Premier League itself." He added: "I think a much broader, long-term plan for football is what I would expect to come from the Premier League." Credit: Press Association

What will the new government restrictions mean for pubs and bars? (Image: people in the Richmond pub in Liverpool watch a statement by the Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Credit: Press Association)

At the end of November 1994, Norway voted in a referendum not to join the European Union. The issue had split the country, and Norway was the only one of four countries that had referendums on EU membership that year to vote against. A senior member of the Yes campaign, former Norwegian foreign minister and Labour politician, Espen Barth Eide, tells Louise Hidalgo about the night they lost.Picture: fishing vessels with banners reading "No to EU" in the harbour of Tromso two weeks before the referendum took place (Credit: Press Association)

Last year, Assignment investigated whether some athletes and coaches game the Paralympic classification system in order to win medals. We heard allegations that some competitors had gone to astonishing lengths such as taping up their arms to make their disability appear worse. A parliamentary select committee hearing looked into the way British Paralympic athletes are classified and questions were raised over whether the system was fit for purpose. In this programme, we examine fresh claims of athletes exaggerating or even faking a disability to get ahead in para sports. We look at the case of an athlete where concerns have been raised after they competed in several different disability classifications. A Paralympic gold medallist tells Assignment that he believes that gaming the system in para sports is at a similar level to cheating in able bodied sports and reveals the tell-tale signs that athletes may be trying to get into an easier classification.Reporter Simon Cox speaks to a former international classifier – the people responsible for ensuring athletes are placed in the right category – who reveals how it is possible for classifiers to be fooled. But the head of the British Paralympic Association says he does not believe cheating happens at any meaningful level. The concerns raised by the programme come as a report by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport select committee into sports governance which has examined classification in para sports is due to be published in the UK.(Image: Paralympic Games Gold medal. Credit: Press Association)

When someone in Jamaica emigrates to the UK, it is said they have 'gone to foreign'. Over the past 70 years several hundred thousand Jamaicans have done this, following in the footsteps of the so-called 'Windrush generation' who first arrived in Britain in the late 1940s. But the spirit of adventure and optimism those early pioneers bought with them has changed over the years and a recent political scandal now finds some of them unwanted and rejected by Britain. Following changes to immigration law and failing to comply with citizenship requirements, they have been designated illegal immigrants. On returning from holiday in the Caribbean, some of the children of the Windrush generation (now in their 50s and 60s) have been refused entry back to Britain, and others have been deported from Britain back to the Caribbean. For Crossing Continents, Colin Grant travels to Jamaica to meet two men who, despite having lived in the UK for decades, working and paying taxes, find themselves in limbo, trapped and unable to return to the place they call home. What happens when you are stranded in a place you were never really familiar with, an island which you have little memory of, and may not have returned to for half a century? Grant hears of their endeavour to return to the UK and how they have struggled to keep up hope in the face of a very painful and public rejection. Colin Grant reporting and producing. (Image: West Indian mother keeps the rain off her child with an umbrella, as they depart the Spanish passenger vessel Montserrat at Southampton docks Oct 1961 / Credit: Press Association)

The Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, four daughters and young son, were shot in the cellar of a house in Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918. Olga Romanoff is his great niece. She spoke to Olga Smirnova about his death and eventual reburial in St Petersburg. (Photo: Nicholas II, Tsar and his family. From left to right - Olga, Maria,Tsar Nicholas II,Tsarina Alexandra, Anastasia, Tsarevitch Alexei and Tatiana. Credit: Press Association

Hear from one of the German prosecution lawyers who helped put Nazi war criminals on trial 20 years after World War Two had ended. Gerhard Wiese has been speaking to Lucy Burns about the trial, and about visiting the Auschwitz death camp with other members of the court.Photo: Members of the Frankfurt court and several journalists pass through the Auschwitz camp gate with the words "Arbeit macht frei" (work brings freedom) above them. December 14,1964. Credit: Press Association.

On 21st October 1966, tragedy struck a village in Wales when a landslide of coal waste engulfed a primary school. 144 people, most of them children, were killed. Rob Walker introduces interviews and reports from the BBC archive to commemorate the disaster.Photo: Rescue workers trying to reach children trapped in Pantglas Junior school. Credit: Press Association.

In September 1988, a speech by Jacques Delors, the President of the European Commission, helped convince British trade unionists to support the European Community. For years, many on the left had been sceptical of the EC, regarding it as a 'rich man's club'. The Labour party and the unions had even called for withdrawal from the European Community, but as Europe geared up for the opening of the single market in 1992, Jacques Delors began to talk about something new. It was called the social dimension, and one TUC official, David Lea, wanted to know more, so he invited him to Britain's Trade Union Congress. Claire Bowes spoke to Lord Lea along with John Edmonds, formerly of the GMB union.Photo: Jacques Delors, President of the European Commission, addressing the Trade Union Congress in Bournemouth in 1988 (Credit: Press Association)

It was not until the 1950s that British researchers first connected cigarette smoking with the huge rise in people suffering from lung cancer. Initially, scientists had thought pollution was a much more likely cause. Hear an archive interview with Sir Richard Doll who carried out the original studies and Sir Richard Peto who worked with him.This programme was first broadcast in 2013(Photo: A man smoking a cigarette. Credit: Press Association)

It seems something is missing from newspapers and TV bulletins - climate change. A story which dominated the news five years ago has dropped steadily down the agenda. One study has found coverage has dropped 36% globally in that time. Why? On The Inquiry this week we hear a tale of chronic political fatigue. We ask whether our hunter-gatherer brains simply aren't wired to think long-term. And we find out why climate change has all the hallmarks of a story likely to make newspaper editors groan. It could be – as one of our expert witnesses tells us – time to "change the narrative".(Image: A man places his hand on the parched soil. Credit: Press Association)

Forty-four years after President Nixon declared “war on drugs”, four US states have now agreed to legalise the sale of marijuana and a majority of Americans supports legalisation. Across the world, drug laws are being relaxed, from Uruguay to Portugal to Jamaica to the Czech Republic. Does this global trend mean the war on drugs has been lost? The Inquiry hears from expert witnesses including an ex-president and a former prosecutor who now defends drug traffickers.(Photo: A person rolling a joint of cannabis. Credit: Press Association)

In the last six months the price of oil has collapsed dramatically. It has been called an oil shock. Previous oil shocks have had profound and long-lasting effects. No single commodity is more important to the global economy – and therefore to global politics. What are the political consequences of cheap oil? Contributors include an ex-president of Shell Oil, a former US energy secretary and one of the world's leading thinkers on the subject. (Image: Oil rig in the North Sea. Credit: Press Association)

We look at aluminium, a more dazzling metal than you may imagine. A sceptical Justin Rowlatt visits the lab of our perennial chemist, Andrea Sella, to find out why it is used in everything from drinks cans to packaging to insulation to window frames.This metal used to be incredibly rare, because it is so hard to extract from its ore, bauxite. We visit Britain's only aluminium smelter - in the Scottish Highlands - to find out why so much electricity is needed in the process.But once you have it, it can be used, recycled and re-used almost ad infinitum. As the stock of metal in circulation increases every year, we ask the world's biggest manufacturer of rolled aluminium sheets whether one day the world may not need to mine the metal at all any more. And, as if that were not enough, we dispatch Justin to tour the world's biggest aluminium car body shop to find out why vehicle manufacturers are dropping the use of steel in favour of its lighter rival.(Photo: Aluminium bodied Range Rovers in production at the Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) plant in Solihull. Credit: Press Association)

Kevin Fong looks beyond the failure of Robert Falcon Scott's expedition to be the first to reach the South Pole and focuses instead on the scientific legacy of Scott's explorations of Antarctica between 1901 and 1912.In recent years, much has been written about Scott the polar loser and bungler. But that personalised focus ignores the pioneering scientific research and discoveries. The revelations transformed Antarctica from an unknown quantity on the map into a profoundly important continent in the Earth's past and present. Before Scott and Shackleton trekked across the vast ice sheets in the early 1900s, no-one was sure whether there was even a continent there. Some geographers had suggested Antarctica was merely a vast raft of ice anchored to a scattering of islands. The science teams on Scott's expeditions made fundamental discoveries about Antarctic weather and began to realise the frozen continent's fundamental role in global climate and ocean circulation. They discovered rocks and fossils which showed Antarctica was once a balmy forested place. They mapped the magnetism around the South Pole for both science and navigators. They found many new species of animals and revealed the extraordinary winter breeding habits of the penguins. The dedication to scientific discovery is most poignantly revealed by fossils that Scott's party collected after their disappointment of being beaten by Amundsen and a few weeks before they froze to death trudging across the Ross ice shelf. They found a particular plant fossil which had been one of the Holy Grails on the early explorations of Antarctica's interior. Its discovery proved an hypothesis raised by Darwin among others that all the southern continents were once linked together by a landmass that would lain where Antarctica is today. The fossils were also important evidence to support the new and controversial theory of Continental Drift - a theory which now underpins the entirety of modern Earth science.(Image: Captain Robert Falcon Scott writing at a table in his quarters at the British base camp in Antarctica. Credit: Press Association)

Mary King is a sportswoman like few others. She's 50-years-old and still at the pinnacle of her sport. That sport is three-day eventing. Next year, she's hoping to collect her first Olympic gold medal - at what will be her sixth games. But is equestrianism - as its enthusiasts insist - the toughest sport in the world?Or is it less a test of the person - more of the horse - and a preserve of the rich?(Image: Mary King. Credit: Press Association)