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Phil Williams: 20/02/2017

20/02/2017

BBC Radio 5 Live - Phil Williams, 20/02/2017

Olympic funding, inside North Korea, pensions calculator and Back Row.

Olympic funding, inside North Korea, pensions calculator, Back Row with Chi Chi Izundu and Siobhan Synnot, Steve Hewlett and technology and gadgets expert Tom Cheesewright.

Chi Chi Izundu & Siobhan Synnot join Phil to discuss the week's entertainment news in Back Row. Plus Hollywood entertainment correspondent Matt Belloni looks ahead to which films are likely to do well in this weekend's Academy Awards.

As seven Olympic and Paralympic sports lose their appeal against a decision by UK Sport to remove their funding in the run-up to the 2020 Games in Tokyo, we hear the case for weightlifting and archery. 
  
Journalist Ryan Duffy on his 2013 meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un, when he travelled with former NBA star Dennis Rodman & the Harlem globetrotters to the secretive east Asian country.

Former Pensions minister Sir Steve Webb highlights concerns about the accuracy of an online DWP pensions calculator, which has led some people to fear they'll miss out on future state pension payments.

Tributes to BBC broadcaster Steve Hewlett after his death from cancer at the age of 58. 
Artist Graham Short on the hunt for the last of his five pound notes specially engraved with a portrait of Jane Austen, with an estimated value of £50,000.

And midnight expert Tom Cheesewright joins Phil to answer listeners' questions and discuss the latest developments in the world of technology.

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