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Up All Night: 15/12/2010

15/12/2010

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 15/12/2010

Giles Dilnot with news of Silvio Berlusconi's political survival, plus US TV and sports.

Giles Dilnot with news of Silvio Berlusconi's political survival. Cash Peters talks US TV, Todd Ant with American sports news, and we learn of the abandoned area around Chernobyl.

Giles Dilnot presents Up All Night's eclectic mix.

Cash Peters talks US TV, amongst other things, and Todd Ant has the latest American sports news.

In our first hour Massimo Franco from the Corriere della Sera newspaper talks us through the tribulations of Silvio Berlusconi's day. In the second, Will Grant joins us to make his valedictory broadcast from Venezuela.

Giles is joined by fellow political journalists to discuss the Twitter effect in the third hour, and Up All Night's Adam Rosser and Martin Gaston from Videogamer talk games.

Also in hour three, Harry Cole, Tony Grew and Laurie Penny join Giles to discuss  the influence Twitter is having on the Westminster village.

And 25 years after the Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine says it will lift restrictions on visitors in the zone around the nuclear power plant.

Mary Mycio has visited the area and written a book about its history. She extols the pleasures of this abandoned region, in the final hour.

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