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Stephen Nolan: 03/05/2015

03/05/2015

BBC Radio 5 Live - Stephen Nolan, 03/05/2015

Featuring an election round-up, plus how football managers face pressure.

Election campaign round-up, including a Scotland party leaders' debate. Plus football managers under pressure and the royal baby awaits a name.

Conservative MP Nadine Dorries, Labour MP John Mann, independent Lib Dem peer Baroness Tonge and UKIP deputy chairman Neil Hamilton discuss the burning issues and YouGov's Peter Kellner looks at the state of the polls going into the final few days of the general election campaign.

Professor John Curtice of Strathclyde University assesses what we learned from the Scottish leaders TV debate, the last televised leaders debate of the campaign. And political cartoonist Steve Bell reflects on the role of satirists during this campaign.

As the pressure ramps up on Premier League managers in the run-up to the climax of the season, former QPR Crystal Palace and Sheffield Utd manager Neil Warnock explains his techniques for dealing with challenging questions from an occasionally hostile media.

Royal historian Kate Williams discusses the new arrival for the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge; and William Hanson and Kate Smurthwaite consider potential names for the new royal baby.
  
Tributes are paid to Keighley Cougars rugby league player Danny Jones after he collapsed and died during a game; authorities in the US city of Baltimore lift the night-time curfew in the city after recent riots; and Ed Smith explains how the West Indies beat England by five wickets in the Third Test in Barbados to share the Wisden Trophy.

Justine Sheils, who was diagnosed with malignant melanoma eight years ago, discusses the risk of skin cancer along with professor of dermatology Charlotte Proby, as health professionals warn that many people are not taking the issue seriously. 

Mohammed Shafiz and Jerry Hayes review the headline stories making Monday's newspapers in the midnight paper review. 
  
And Stephen hears the remarkable story of a young British woman who was sold into sexual slavery in southern Europe for six years, after falling in love with a local man when on holiday in Albania at the age of fourteen.

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