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Up All Night: 18/06/2012

18/06/2012

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 18/06/2012

Elections in Greece and France, the death of Rodney King and tensions in Nigeria.

Election news from Greece and France, increasing religious tension in Nigeria, plus a look at the fortieth anniversary of the Watergate break-in and the Naked Scientist.

A curtailed programme because of the extended US Open Golf coverage. 

There was time for a Greek view of their election result from professor of politics Michalis Spordalakis and Roman Gerodimus, a Senior Lecturer in Global Current Affairs at Bournemouth University.

Rodney King's death was marked by use of archive and with an interview with King's co-author Larry Spagnola. We also spoke to Mickey Kantor who served on the Christopher Commission, which was set up by LA's mayor to investigate the police department after the beating.

The Naked Scientist looks at the fate of A-levels and a plant that punishes animals that eat its seeds but rewards those that spit them out!

The French parliamentary election results are analysed and we look at the fortieth anniversary of the Watergate break-in in the company of Stanley Kutler, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin Madison and the author of the books "Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes" and  "Wars Of Watergate".

Growing religious tension in Nigeria is looked at by the BBC's Will Ross and Bill Nicholson looks at the American papers.

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