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08/06/2016

BBC Radio 5 Live - Afternoon Edition, 08/06/2016

BHS, voter registration, Bryony Gordon and Fern Britton.

BHS, voter registration, Bryony Gordon, Fern Britton and The Big Share.

We spoke about BHS after the man who bought the retail giant claimed he did everything in his power to save the business. Dominic Chappell has been appearing before MPs. As the voter registration deadline was extended until midnight tomorrow we heard from Dr Victoria Honeyman  
a Lecturer in British Politics at Leeds University. The journalist Bryony Gordon was here to talk about OCD and depression, the topic of her new book Mad Girl. Inspector Michael Brown, the mental health lead at the College of Policing spoke to us about restraints following the Spithood case. Our big guest was Fern Britton who spoke about life, TV and her new book The Postcard. And throughout the show we had a great response to our the question for astronaut Tim Peake, our reporter Phil Mackie managed to ask him the question in space just after 1500 which can now be seen and heard on 5live Inshort.

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