BBC Radio 4 PM @BBCPM

This is the official account of PM on @BBCRadio4. On air 5-6pm weekdays and Saturday 5-5.30pm. #bbcpm bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b… Joined June 2013

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Senior doctors in England are to stage a two-day strike next month in a dispute over pay and working hours, with the BMA wanting a reduction in the standard working week from 40 to 35 hours. @EvanHD puts the suggested £2bn cost of the change to the union's Dr Helen Neary.

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“There are four or five quite well-established actors…they’ll all know how to present themselves” Screen tests for the next James Bond are said to be taking place this weekend. Jeffrey Caine, screenwriter for GoldenEye who auditioned actors for Bond, explained the process.

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“Its central debates…they feel alive as ever.” The History Boys, which opened at the National Theatre in 2004, is coming back! Sir Nick Hytner, the play’s original director, is bringing it back and explained why.

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“This is a vile world to be a public servant in.” The Met Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley speaks out after a female Muslim police officer - who was recognised at the Police Federation Conference yesterday - has received online abuse.

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6 days ago

"There definitely is something going on with Secretaries of State perhaps keener to tell the media than they are to tell MPs." @EvanHD puts Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle's disapproval that the Jackdaw decision was told to the press first, to Energy Minister Michael Shanks.

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Google Cloud says its services are recovering after a ‘power event’ at its UK cloud site caused an outage impacting banks, businesses and the courts. The BBC’s cyber correspondent @joetidy says ‘it goes to show how one company is so powerful in this area’.

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“Do you get them to actually do anything, or are they just standing watching other people?” A survey for the BBC suggests more than four in 10 UK teenagers want more work experience openings at school. @EvanHD asks Aaron Smith, from Siemens Energy, what opportunities they offer.

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“Tear gas, rubber bullet launchers, grenades.” Some French cities have been given the power to implement partial curfews to protect people and shops after a weekend of riots. Simon Persico, a political science professor at Sciences Po Grenoble, describes the police response.

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2 weeks ago

What makes a successful housing estate? On PM at 5, @tweeter_anita hears from the architect behind the winner of the UK's most prestigious architecture award. Lion Green Road in Coulsdon was praised by judges for blending high-density housing into an area of natural beauty.

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“I think he wants Russia to win.” Former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace tells @EvanHD where he believes Donald Trump stands on the war, as concerns grow over the future of US support for Ukraine.

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2 weeks ago

Many of the country's professional clubs are "living on the edge of financial disaster" according to a new report by the football regulator. Mark Palios, former Chief Exec of the FA and chairman of Tranmere Rovers, gives @BBCBenWright his reaction to the report.

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"Society is becoming very polarised... that will be exploited by our adversary" In his annual speech MI5 chief Sir Ken McCallum said the use of AI to create bio-weapons is a growing concern. Jonathan Hall KC, Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation, gave PM his analysis.

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"This is going to be a long, hard road." The Prime Minister has told MPs that Britain needs to be open to a closer relationship with the EU. Philip Rycroft, former Permanent Secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union, says any process to rejoin would take time.

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"It is the most difficult, most worrying time I've seen in my career" Sir Mark Rowley, the Met Police Commissioner, speaks to @katierazz about his loss of confidence in the UK justice system.

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A Welsh version of the Dolly Parton classic Jolene has been released in tribute to the star's family links to Wales. Shortly before her death, Dolly collaborated on the track with niece Jada Star and Welsh singer-songwriter Bronwen Lewis. They spoke to Paddy O'Connell on BH.

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3 weeks ago

“If people are that interested in a particular incident, they can go to the scene of the execution.” Former US National Security Advisor Ambassador John Bolton tells PM that the US Defence Secretary's plan to livestream the execution of a former US Army major is 'unnecessary'.

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3 weeks ago

"I do expect an intensification of cyber attacks against us." Cyber security threats were high on the Prime Minister's agenda as he visited Berlin today. Sir David Omand, former director of GCHQ, says it's important to fight against rising threats from AI and Russia.

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3 weeks ago

"It's a legal technicality on a very high profile case." Thames Valley Police has accepted that warrants it used to search Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's homes in February were unlawful. Crime and Justice commentator Danny Shaw takes us through what happened and why.

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3 weeks ago

"People were afraid to speak to me before." Imogen Brooks has become the first person in the UK to get a bespoke artificial tongue on the NHS. She and lead clinician Carolyn Doughty tell us how the procedure came about, and the difference it made.

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3 weeks ago

Teenage conservationists from Devon released 200 harvest mice into a nature reserve last year. Now they are encouraging other young people to breed the mice and do the same. Eva and Emily tell @nickeardleybbc about the project.