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Up All Night: 25/08/2010

25/08/2010

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 25/08/2010

An Irish cover up, US troop numbers, a US visit to North Korea, and Mont Blanc is drained.

An irish cover up, US troop numbers - an ex marine gives us his take, a US visit to North Korea, Mont Blanc is drained, and we visit a collection of brains in jars.

Presented by Rhod Sharp. 

An eight year investigation has concluded that the British Government, the Catholic church and the police conspired to cover up the suspected involvement of a priest in an IRA bombing. Former Northern Editor of the Irish Times newspaper Dick Groghan gives his reaction.

A US general has claimed that President Obama's plans for a July 2011 deadline to begin withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan is encouraging Taliban insurgents. Paul Kane, a Marine veteran of Iraq, as well as a former Fellow of the International Security Program at Harvard's Kennedy School shares his thoughts with Rhod.

Xavier Rivoire tells of a major operation to pump dry a giant water pocket from under a glacier on Mont Blanc begins is underway.


Plus news that the former US President, Jimmy Carter, may be heading to North Korea to negotiate the release of a american man. Jack Prichard, former U-S envoy and now president of the Korean Economic Institute in Washington DC is not impressed.  

And Photographer and Katrina survivor Jeff Hoffman remembers hurricane Katrina, 5 years on.

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