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Today: Alternative vote 'will restore trust in politics'
Published: 2010-02-09 06:20:00MPs are to vote on whether to hold a referendum on the prime minister's plans to change the voting system. The current first-past-the-post system would be replaced by the alternative vote system, which allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference. Chris Huhne, Liberal Democrats' home affairs spokesman and Environment Secretary Hilary Benn debate if a new voting method should be introduced.
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Today: Met 'without a doubt' still institutionally racist
Published: 2010-02-09 06:15:00The former president of the Metropolitan Black Police Association (MetBPA), Ali Dizaei, has been sentenced to four years in prison for assaulting and falsely arresting a man. Many of his critics have welcomed the sentence, accusing Mr Dizaei of corruption and of being untouchable due to his ethnic background. Sergeant Alfred John, chairman of the MetBPA and Brian Paddick, a former deputy assistant commissioner with the Met, examine whether the case is a turning point in the Met's relations with its black officers.
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Today: 'I was terrified about being known as gay'
Published: 2010-02-08 05:31:00John Browne was a star of UK business: tough, successful, and as boss of BP, the company that had been his life, a man who had the Midas touch. Then it all came to an end. He was brought down three years ago by a gay affair. He went to court to try to suppress a newspaper story about it, and in a witness statement told a lie. When he had to confess to that untruth, an extraordinary career at the very summit of business was over. Jim Naughtie talks to Lord Browne about his life, public and personal, described in his new memoir Beyond Business.
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Today: 'Suicidal' for Iran to make just one weapon
Published: 2010-02-08 05:26:00Iran's President has asked the country's nuclear chief to begin enriching uranium to 20%. Mark Fitzpatrick, of the IISS, explains the dangers posed by Iran's nuclear programme
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Today: 'Sometimes it looks almost like she's crying'
Published: 2010-02-06 04:52:00Following the scientific discovery this week that patients in a vegetative state could in fact be able to think and communicate, the Today programme spoke to a woman who's mother has been in a vegetative state for four years. She describes how she feels about her mother's condition.
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Today: Lord Goldsmith: UK bribery laws 'are outdated'
Published: 2010-02-06 04:46:00The UK's biggest defence manufacturer BAE Systems has been fined £280m in an out of court settlement over investigations into whether it paid bribes in Saudi Arabia and Tanzania. The majority of the money will be paid to the US where BAE admitted misleading the authorities in relation to its controversial £40bn al-Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia. Britain's Serious Fraud Office dropped its investigation over the same deal in 2006 on the grounds that the investigation was threatening Britain's national security. Former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith comments on the outcome.
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Today: The appeal of TV soaps
Published: 2010-02-05 06:13:00Two of Britain's best soaps celebrate big milestones on our screens this year. Coronation Street, set in the imaginary Manchester suburb of Weatherfield, is celebrating 50 years on our screens. The BBC's own long running soap EastEnders marks its own 25-year landmark with a special exhibition opening in London today and a live episode on February 19th. Ashley Pharoah, former EastEnders scriptwriter, and James Rampton, television critic for the Independent, consider what makes a soap sink or swim.
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Today: 'The last part of the jigsaw'
Published: 2010-02-05 06:07:00Northern Ireland's DUP has agreed a unanimous deal over the devolution of policing and justice powers following ten days of intense negotiations with Sinn Fein. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Irish counterpart Brian Cowan are set to leave for Belfast to sign the deal. Northern Ireland Secretary Shaun Woodward reflects on the importance of the agreement.
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Today: Cambodia war crimes trials 'must be fair'
Published: 2010-02-04 06:05:00A British lawyer has arrived in Cambodia to act as prosecutor in the Cambodia Khmer Rouge war crimes trial. Andrew Cayley, who has been working at the International Criminal Court in the Hague, was chosen to reside over the trials which aim to bring justice after 30. Mr Cayley outlines what the trials mean for Cambodia.
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Today: 'Unreasonable paranoia' about gas supplies
Published: 2010-02-04 05:54:00Oil companies face increasing attacks about the scale of their profits as oil prices continue to rise, pushing more people into fuel poverty. Dr Anthony Hayward, chief executive of BP, discusses the future of energy supplies and how suppliers operate.
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