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Phil Williams: 20/01/2016

20/01/2016

BBC Radio 5 Live - Phil Williams, 20/01/2016

Global stock markets, the Savile report, Billy Connolly, global warming and Team Talk.

Billy Connolly on his TV award. Global stock markets tumble. Leaked Jimmy Savile report. Global warming. Team Talk. Planet Nine, plus Mark Thompson on five planets aligning.

Analysis and reporting from London, New York and Hong Kong as global stock markets tumble, unsettled by the continuing fall in oil prices and China's economic slowdown.

A news website publishes what it says is a leaked draft copy of the official report into sexual abuse committed by Jimmy Savile during his time working at the BBC.

The father of a ten-year-old boy from Lancashire tells Phil how his son came to be interviewed by police after mistakenly writing 

he lived in a "terrorist house" rather than a "terraced house" during an English lesson at school. 

Billy Connolly speaks to 5 Live as he receives a lifetime achievement award at tonight's National Television Awards, and recalls the famous joke that cemented his fame.

Dr Gavin Schmidt from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies explains why global temperatures in 2015 were the warmest on record.

5 Live's Conor McNamara & the Independent's chief football correspondent Mark Ogden discuss the leading football stories of the week in Team Talk.

Astronomer Konstantin Batygin from the California Institute of Technology explains why he and his colleagues believe they've found evidence of a hidden giant planet on the fringes of the solar system. It's been nicknamed Planet Nine and has a mass ten times that of Earth.  

And Stargazing Live's Mark Thompson answers listeners' questions on space, including how stargazers can get the best view of the current alignment of five planets in the solar system.

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