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Up All Night: 21/01/2011

21/01/2011

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 21/01/2011

Alan Johnson, mafia arrests, a wonder surgeon and the Iraqi view of the Chilcot inquiry.

Alan Johnson, Korea, Somali pirates, mafia arrests, a wonder surgeon and the Iraqi view of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war.

Alan Johnson has shocked Westminster by standing down as Shadow Chancellor. Tim Iredale is the political editor for the BBC in the Yorkshire region and has been out in Hull tonight at a meeting attended by Mr Johnson.

South Korea has finally agreed to hold military talks with the North. Jasper Kim, professor of international studies at Ewah Women's University in Seoul gives a good analysis of the story.  

Members of the Somali Parliament have refused to endorse a law making piracy illegal - they've argued that the pirates are heroes for keeping illegal fishermen away from the country's coast. Yusuf Garaad Omar is the head of the BBC's Somali Service. 

The FBI has arrested more than a hundred individuals suspected of involvement with organised crime syndicates. We hear from the Guardian Angels' founder and talkshow host Curtis Sliwa.

A woman has been able to speak for the first time in 11 years following a voice box transplant. The lead surgeon, Dr Gregory Farwell, talks us through the procedure.
 
Tony Blair will make his second appearance at the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq War later.  Mazin Al-Eshaiker runs a telecommunications firm in Baghdad and tells us what ordinary Iraqis think of the former British Prime Minister.

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