Broadcasting House - 06/06/2010

News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Kevin Connolly. After the shootings in Cumbria, we look at the first recorded case of mass killing, carried out by Howard Unruh in New Jersey in 1949. We hear from the man who acted as his defence attorney, and about Unruh's victims. The activists on the flotilla attacked by the Israelis on the way to Gaza are a reminder of how far people will go for causes far removed from their day-to-day lives. We ask Jason Burke, who spent a summer with Kurdish guerillas in Northern Iraq, what draws people to causes. Caroline Wyatt spends some time with women on the front line in Afghanistan, and there's been a shocking case of skullduggery in this year's Britain In Bloom competition- somebody's poisoned the flowerbeds in Cayton, the favourite to win the contest. We go there to investigate. Reviewing the Sunday papers are actress Rebecca Front, kindly joining us before going to get her hair done for the BAFTAs, Olympic rower Sir Steve Redgrave and journalist and film-maker Paul Martin.