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Up All Night: 20/09/2012

20/09/2012

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 20/09/2012

An apologetic Nick Clegg, an unapologetic french cartoonist and did Jesus have a wife?

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg apologises on tuition fees, cartoonists in France don't apologise over images that have offended many muslims, and did Jesus have a wife?

Australia armed all its police five years ago. The day after two british officers got murdered we talk with a criminologist there whether it's made their policemen and women feel safer.

Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has apologised for breaking his pre-election promise to oppose an increase in student tuition fees. We discuss the issues that throws up ahead of the party's conference with Professor Andrew Russell, who is the head of politics at Manchester University.

The World Bank's latest report on the economy of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank says it's facing a budget shortfall of almost 250 million pounds. RAJA KHALIDI is a Palestinian Economist who works for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

And a renowned expert in Christian history has told a conference in Rome that an ancient piece of papyrus makes explicit reference to Jesus having a wife. Dr James Tabor, who's Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, tells us all about it.

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