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Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:14. | :00:17. | |
With me are the broadcaster and author, Dame Joan Bakewell | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
The Telegraph leads with criticism of the National Trust for dropping | :00:21. | :00:35. | |
the word easter from its easter egg hunt, and carries a large picture | :00:36. | :00:38. | |
The I says opinion polls show Labour losing over a hundred seats at next | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
The Express reports one in five British workers has no | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
The Financial Times leads with the news that | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
unemployment in the Eurozone is at an eight year low. | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
The Metro reports a claim by a union leader that some teachers | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
are working four day weeks then working another for free to keep | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
The Daily Mail says that banks are exploiting customers unable to pay | :01:04. | :01:16. | |
their credit card debts. The Mirror leads with two armed robbers who | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
poured boiling water over their pension victims. The Times is | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
warning of unethical behaviour by aid contractors. We'll start with | :01:30. | :01:43. | |
the Guardian. Saint Petersburg. You know it well, Joan? | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
And what is tucked away here is that the second bomb which did not go | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
off, would have been several times more powerful than the first and was | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
designed to be disguised as a fire extinguisher which had been picked | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
with shrapnel. It would have been much worse than the one which killed | :02:01. | :02:08. | |
ten or 11 people. Small mercies. Indeed. Absolutely dreadful. 50 | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
people have been injured. You know Saint Petersburg as well, Tim. This | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
happened just after 2:30pm local time. Not rush hour but the damage | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
that has been caused is horrific. Russia has been the victim of some | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
horrible terror outrages in recent times, 200 odd Russians died in a | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
plane that was brought down in shambles shake classier. Of course, | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
Russia has been prepared for this for quite some time. There has | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
always been the fear that because of their active involvement in the | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
campaign to bomb Aleppo in disgraceful ways, that there would | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
be a backlash from fundamentalists. I am afraid there is obviously no | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
justification for it whatsoever. What we have seen in sick Petersburg | :02:57. | :03:00. | |
today. But Russia probably is braced for it and will expect more. It | :03:01. | :03:07. | |
could be checked now. -- in Saint Petersburg today. I suspect what we | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
will now see is a crackdown by Vladimir Putin of the kind we have | :03:13. | :03:15. | |
seen in Turkey by President and again. Using terrible terrorist | :03:16. | :03:28. | |
outrages. It's a classic case of, we have an excuse now. We can go in | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
heavy on the protesters. We had a democracy protests in Russia | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
recently, Friday. That will have worried Britain and he now very | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
sadly has, because of this tragedy, an excuse to crack down. -- that | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
will have worried Putin. It's the purview of the Prime Minister, but | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
of course we know who's pulling the strings. | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
The BBC can't be accused of Brexit bias, because the referendum is | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
over. This is according to my erstwhile colleague Mr Nick | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
Robinson. Does he have a point? Of course the BBC is perfect in every | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
way! Obviously when you present. You've got it, Tim. We have a remain | :04:19. | :04:27. | |
here and a Brexiteers. Full balance. I think the BBC, to be fair, during | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
the Brexit campaign worked incredibly hard to be balanced. I | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
hear what Nick Robinson says here and it's a good defence of the | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
corporation. But I think there are programmes partly because I think a | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
lot of the staff in the corporation tend to lean one way, sometimes | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
wonder if there is a full understanding of the Brexit position | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
on some of the BBC's bulletins and broadcast. There's an awful lot of | :04:52. | :04:59. | |
attempts, quite rightly, on a News Corporation like the BBC to ensure | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
there is balance of race and gender among other things. I wonder if | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
there is another attempt to ensure that on a whole range of political | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
and ideological issues there are enough people in the newsroom to | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
think in diverse ways. Who come from different parts of the country. Who | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
are not all London-based, for example. I think that's unavoidable, | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
because they come down to London to work at the harbour. Having been -- | :05:23. | :05:37. | |
to work at the hub. He says if company a announces that it will | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
invest more in the UK and create more jobs, it's not our duty to | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
search for a company that says it will invest less. Just to balance | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
the news. It is a trap this, on the one hand, because there are now so | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
many diverse hands on which we could look. There are not just two options | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
in life any more. Life has become much more... OK, a bit of | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
perspective as well. Like Michael Howard 's silly remarks about | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
Gibraltar the other day. They were silly. And I think perhaps not | :06:09. | :06:14. | |
getting it quite out of proportion like some broadcasting articles have | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
done. That's part of the responsibility as well. Not to pour | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
fire on some of the issues that social media pause fire onto. I | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
think that was just to add to the gaiety of Nations, because it was | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
just so silly. The Spanish slightly worried according to some | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
commentators I spoke to. The only Brits likely to invade Spain are our | :06:39. | :06:39. | |
tourists. And that's bad enough! Corbin heading for disaster in next | :06:40. | :06:57. | |
month 's local elections. How low can you party go? The Labour Party | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
is schizophrenic at the moment. What is extraordinary is that while a | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
large part of the party is in despair, at the prospect of these | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
losses which have to be confronted, Corbin's circle of supporters and | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
the thousands of people who joined up under the new rules are | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
absolutely passionate Corbynista 's. They really cheer him to the Echo. | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
They fill the holes. They are passionate in his support. They | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
don't represent the country. But they represent a very strong morally | :07:31. | :07:38. | |
convinced set of political... Some of the insiders in his office have | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
been resigning recently though. Are there signs of it falling apart from | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
the call? I get the feeling that's because is not a very good manager | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
of staff. At that thing that matters to do the disillusionment of | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
politics, I think the enthusiasts remain super enthusiastic. Everyone | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
else is going, but there aren't... We have to convince the public. | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
Because you don't get elected. So that realisation that the public | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
perhaps, it would seem, have not come on board with this whole | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
project. That still isn't sinking in as far as those who are closest to | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Jeremy Corbyn are concerned that she much and only speculating here, but | :08:20. | :08:28. | |
I believe. The truth will dawn eventually because of this | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
government and the cruelty of the cuts. Schools running out of money | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
and hospitals. Old people dying and so on. The penny will drop and | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
people will suddenly see that they have been right all along. You don't | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
believe that, do you? I don't believe in that particular project, | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
though I do believe it's an evil government doing wicked things. You | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
really believe it's an evil government? No! It's on record now, | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
Joan! You had a title. As a conservative, I can't see any | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
pleasure in either the complete collapse of the Labour Party. Not | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
complete. Well, near collapse. Not in the North, it hasn't come close | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
to collapse. Every country needs an opposition and frankly we have quite | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
a week Tory Cabinet which is not being held to account in the | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
comments particularly. I would welcome a Keir Starmer or a Hillary | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
Byrne leaving the -- leading the Labour Party. A quick look at the | :09:36. | :09:44. | |
times. Theresa May in Jordan for talks there. Saudi Arabia as well. | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
We had on the 10pm news just recently. We both like this picture. | :09:50. | :09:56. | |
Both of us have misgivings about our trade dependence on the spot of the | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
world, but particularly Saudi Arabia. This is a country that does | :10:00. | :10:02. | |
not respect women's rights particularly. Or at all, very much. | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
Here we have a female leader of our country going there, and having to | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
sort of acknowledged this. That's right. She's wearing trousers, | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
that's correct. She's not wearing anything on her head, they may | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
disapprove of that. But she's doing it in her own right. She is stepping | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
down alone into a world that does not give women any kind of credit. | :10:23. | :10:32. | |
That's impressive. It is. As we had only ten o'clock News, allegations | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
of weapons used by Saudis sold by Britain against people in Yemen. A | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
difficult relationship. "Teachers lose a day's | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
pay to do homework." That's in the Metro. Stressed staff | :10:42. | :10:50. | |
cut hours to free up time for marking. The teachers I know do | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
spend a lot of time marking papers. Because there are so many stats, | :10:57. | :11:03. | |
these various sets of things that children are to reach, they now have | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
to check they are doing it at every stage. There is no freewheeling | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
education in which people can coast a little and learn adjacent | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
information that is not strictly governed by passing these exams or | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
reaching these targets. We target crazy. I think it is so sad for | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
young children when the teachers are just going crackers trying to keep | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
up with it. And hit their targets said the report on the School | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
reflects them well. But you have to have a bar to which these schools | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
and pupils reach? That's part of the target system. That's part of the | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
system we have set up. It's not one I grew up with many years ago. It's | :11:50. | :11:55. | |
been accentuated. There was a time when you simply passed. In my day, | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
it was the 11 plus or not. That's coming back, you know? LAUGHTER | :12:00. | :12:09. | |
Easy, Tiger! Tim, for that, you have to explain why Easter has | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
disappeared according to the Telegraph. The National Trust | :12:13. | :12:18. | |
usually has an Easter egg Trail where kids follow their chocolate | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
desires at this time of year. The National Trust are renaming it the | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
great British egg hunt. Cadburys think, who have sponsored this, | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
think that this will be more appealing now to non-Christians as | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
well as Christians. The Archbishop of York, the most Reverend John | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
Saint-Saens, is not impressed. Spitting on the grave of John | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
Cadbury, is his understated reaction to this. I'm a Christian, I don't | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
think this is something I particularly welcome. I think most | :12:53. | :13:03. | |
people, Muslims, Jewish people, they are -- actually quite like the idea | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
of a Christian country where these principles are celebrated. I don't | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
think they find offensive. Neither can I get too worked up about the | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
fact this is being renamed. In a slightly more lively way. It does | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
mean you can flog eggs in November, doesn't it? August. It's Easter. | :13:20. | :13:26. | |
It's a famous festival and just as we like to Bali or whatever, -- | :13:27. | :13:38. | |
Diwali. We celebrated and respected. I'm not an observing question but | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
it's Easter, it is a serious festival. So let's just have Easter | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
eggs. We all agree, we not impressed. Thank you very much for | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
looking at some of the stories behind the headlines. We'll have you | :13:53. | :13:53. | |
back soon. Don't forget you can see the front | :13:54. | :13:54. | |
pages of the papers online Were going to look at the front page | :13:55. | :14:07. | |
of this Sun before we leave you. It has the clear message, up yours, | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
Senor 's. They spent all day working at! Don't forget you can see all the | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
front pages online. It's all there for you - | :14:17. | :14:17. | |
seven days a week at bbc dot co uk forward slash papers - | :14:18. | :14:20. | |
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