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Nearly six million people are to receive letters telling them they have paid the wrong amount of tax. Government sources have insisted Andy Coulson's job as head of Downing Street communications is safe. Are financial speculators to blame over price of bread soaring and consequent rioting in Mozambique? And have our working lives become more monotonous? To speed up the loading time for this running order, we have replaced the audio with links. To hear the reports, interviews and discussions, just click on the links. Get in touch via
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or text us on 84844. 0709 David Cameron's communications director Andy Coulson is still under pressure over the News of the World phone hacking scandal. Political correspondent Adam Fleming
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0712 More than three quarters of British people think the taxpayer should NOT contribute to the cost of the Pope's visit here later this month. That is according to a survey by the think tank Theos. Religious affairs correspondent Robert Pigottt explains why whatever people think of his visit, they agree with his social teaching. 0715 The paper review. 0717 Tony Blair appeared on Dublin chat-show after the publication of his autobiography earlier this week. Given his work in the Northern Ireland peace process, he was guaranteed a largely warm reception in the Irish capital. BBC's Ireland correspondent Mark Simpson was watching RTE's Late late Show. 0720 Pakistan's High Commissioner to UK thinks the cricketers at the centre of the gambling scandal are innocent and mentioned anti-Pakistan policy. Imran Khan, who left cricket for politics, spoke to BBC's Aleem Maqbool. Mohammed Hanif, Pakistani writer and journalist, discusses how people in Pakistan feel about their favourite game. 0726 The sports news with Rob Bonnet. 0733 Is Britain becoming a "selfish hedonistic wasteland", how one of our leading Catholics Edmund Adamus put it? Is the Pope's visit happening, because we are heading towards an increasingly secular society? Hugh McLeod, the professor of church history at Birmingham University, and Austen Iverleigh, the co-ordinator of an organisation called Catholic Voices, discuss the pros and cons of secularism. 0740 The paper review. 0743 An audio archive of what modern women MPs think of Westminster opens to the public on Monday at the British Library. Boni Sones, who runs Women's Parliamentary Radio, is one of the five journalists who conducted the interviews and who donated the archive to the Library. 0747 Thought for the Day with Canon David Winter. 0751 There is a rally in Paris today to protest at the treatment of Roma people by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Jacques Myard, a deputy in his party, and Isabella Mihalache, deputy director of the European Roma Rights Commission, discuss the deportation of over a thousand Roma gypsies from illegal camps since July. 0810 After Margaret Thatcher was ousted as leader of the Conservatives, her shadow loomed large over the party for a long time. Now it seems the Labour party has the same problem with Tony Blair. How should they view his legacy? Lord Falconer, a friend of Tony Blair's and a former Lord Chancellor, and Lord Hattersley, former deputy leader of the Labour party, discuss Tony Blair's revelations of his disastrous relationship with Gordon Brown. 0818 The Vatican has lent the Victoria and Albert Museum four of the most famous tapestries from the Sistine Chapel ahead of the Pope's visit. They are considered masterpieces of High Renaissance art comparable with Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling. Today's reporter Nicola Stanbridge watched them being put into place. 0822 The sports news with Rob Bonnet. 0827 David Cameron's communication director Mr Coulson is under fire over how much he knew about phone hacking as the former editor of the News of the World. Downing Street says that he denies all the allegations against him and off the record that he is not going anywhere. Alan Duncan, the International Development Minister, discusses if Mr Cameron should sack Coulson as the opposition requests. 0834 The paper review. 0837 The European Union is looking at the way it deals with China. The policy review is being carried out by the EU's foreign affairs supremo Baroness Ashton. She has just visited China for talks with senior leaders and has also travelled into the countryside to see the less developed parts of the country. BBC's correspondent Michael Bristow went along. 0841 The price of wheat is going through the roof and people are dying because of it. In Mozambique there have been riots over the price of bread and it is feared there will be more to come. What is the role of financial speculators in all this? David Hightower, an analyst based in Chicago who specialises in commodities, discusses if the banks are guilty of speculating in food contracts. 0848 Have our jobs become more monotonous? Aditya Chakrabortty, economic leader writer for the Guardian argues that jobs have become more routine, less skilled and workers are subject to greater control from above than ever before. Lucy Kellaway, the Financial Times columnist, says there is no evidence for this.
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