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Up All Night: 23/09/2011

23/09/2011

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 23/09/2011

World economy on the brink, how to dodge a satellite and Sir Richard Branson talks sharks.

Big stock market falls as the economy enters a dangerous place, Sir Richard Branson tries to save millions of sharks and Sir Paul McCartney's ballet debuts in New York.

Dotun Adebayo with stories from around the world. 

As Up All Night goes on air, stock markets open in the Far East - and promptly produce the sort of graphs you wouldn't want to ski down. The big falls follow Christine Lagarde's comments that the world economy is entering a dangerous place. We get analysis from the BBC's economics editor, Stephanie Flanders, and speak to experts in the Far East and New York about what's causing the sell-off, and what can be done to stop the rot.

If the current crop of politicians don't seem to be able to fix the economic problems, what about the future generation? We speak to Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem students about their views on the economy, the drop in the pub trade, fuel poverty and how to get people more interested in sports. That's all in our politics phone in.

Sir Richard Branson talks about shark fin soup. The delicacy means that 7 million sharks are being killed each year, according to the pressure group Wild Aid. Sir Richard has joined a campaign to try to prevent so many sharks dying.

There's a one in three thousand two hundred chance of being hit by a satellite today. The UARS satellite is on its way back to earth from space, and NASA can't tell us whereabouts it's likely to end up just yet. Space blogger Ian O'Neill explains why it's happening.

And Sir Paul McCartney's latest composition - a ballet score - has debuted in New York. We speak to Leigh Witchell, dance writer for the New York Post. He thinks Paul should stick to playing bass.

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