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Phil Williams: 20/10/2015

20/10/2015

BBC Radio 5 Live - Phil Williams, 20/10/2015

Steel job losses, China state visit, One Direction, generous tipping and SBS recruitment.

Chinese premier pays UK state visit, One Direction fans' heartbreak, generous tipping, Back to the Future, NI paramilitaries, steel job losses, SBS recruitment and gardening tips.

Workers in Scunthorpe & Motherwell react to more devastating job losses in Britain's steel industry, as Tata Steel confirms 1200 jobs are to go across its UK sites.

We hear from the voice of Britain's Chinese business community as China's Premier visits the UK on a state visit. 

Veteran Northern Ireland analyst Peter Taylor assesses a new report by the PSNI and MI5 on the state of paramilitary activity, which concludes that the IRA's ruling army council is still in existence. 

One Direction fans in Belfast are left heartbroken as Liam is taken ill and the band pulls the plug on their concert at the SSE Arena - with thousands of concertgoers already inside the venue.

Special Boat Service veterans Jason Fox & Matthew Ollerton explain what it's like to go through the gruelling recruitment process to join Britain's military elite, of which only a select few make it through to the very end.

From hoverboards to time travel, video links to fusion reactors, we go Back to the Future with futurologist Peter Cochrane, exactly 26 years on from the date crashed by Marty McFly & Doc Brown in the second of the seminal 1980s sci-fi films, to see how film makers' predictions have differed from reality.

Kenneth Felber, a pizza delivery driver from Alaska, tells Phil of his joy on receiving a tip worth around 1200 pounds in a random act of kindness, after dropping off a pizza at a church in Anchorage. 

And as the leaves fall and the evenings draw in, expert gardener Chris Collins offers some timely tips for both the green-fingered & novice gardener alike.

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