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World at One: 15/01/2016

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15/01/2016

BBC Radio 4 - World at One, 15/01/2016

Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark Mardell.

There will be no trial of facts into claims of sex abuse by Lord Janner - the programme hears more allegations. And a pioneering project trying to reduce bed-blocking in hospitals.

A judge at the Old Bailey has ruled that there will be no trial of the facts into claims of child sexual abuse by Lord Janner who died at the end of last year - but a BBC investigation has heard evidence from 12 people who say they were abused by the labour peer. We hear the details, and speak to a former Director or Public Prosecutions about why no case will be heard.

Confusion over the role the former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone will play in Labour's defence review. 

Andrew Bomford reports on a project aimed at reducing bed blocking in hospitals. As the most recent figures for delayed discharges show the second highest number on record, former Health Minister Norman Lamb tells us that the current system of separating health and social care is ridiculous, and is exacerbating the problem. 

Author Phillip Pullman, who resigned as patron of the Oxford literary festival because they don't pay authors who speak to their audience debate the issue with Colin Midson from the Port Eliot Literary Festival in Cornwall.

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