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09/07/2015

BBC Radio 5 Live - Up All Night, 09/07/2015

Includes a Budget round-up, day one of the Ashes and Ebola in Liberia.

News, interviews and stories from around the world with Rhod Sharp. Includes a Budget round-up, day one of the Ashes and Ebola in Liberia.

The Living Wage is at the centre of the Chancellor's Budget - but what does it mean in reality? Rhod hears from Rhys Moore, director of the Living Wage Foundation and Adam Memon, head of economic research at the Centre for Policy Studies.

As new cases of ebola appear in Liberia, two months after the west African country was declared officially free of ebola,  Kamil Kamaludeen, Liberia country director for the UN development programme, explains what's going on.

Dr Karl answers listeners questions on the world of science, while Prof Dan Belsky from Duke University explains how and why people age at different rates. 

Australia's Nathan Bracken looks ahead to Day Two of the first Ashes Test in Cardiff, while Simon Brotherton & team round up all the action on the fifth stage of the Tour de France.

Baltimore's city mayor fires her chief of police chief after a recent upturn in violence in the city following the death of a man in police custody, while politicians in South Carolina continue to debate whether to put an end to flying the Confederate flag over the state capitol building.

A Florida theme park removes a Bill Cosby statue after the comedian is hit with further allegations of sexual assault,   the New York Stock Exchange is knocked out of operation for nearly four hours by a technical glitch, and a court in New Zealand sentences former AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd to eight months home detention after his earlier admission of drug possession and making threats to kill an employee.

And in a remarkable true testimony, Rhod speaks to two child escapees from the Nazi regime who owe their lives to the late Sir Nicholas Winton and his Kindertransport, the trains which transported children out of Czechoslovakia at the start of World War Two.

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