Today - 27/08/2009

Presented by Justin Webb and John Humphrys. The Rugby Football Union chief executive Francis Baron discusses injury-feigning allegations against Harlequins player Tom Williams. Sir Mike Tomlinson, former chief inspector of schools, says GCSE exams are a very expensive exercise. Sam Zarifi of Amnesty International says the Chinese government is right to encourage voluntary organ donation. Correspondent Kevin Connolly visits the site of the oldest African American church in the United States, the African Methodist Episcopal in downtown Philadelphia, to ask how the people there will remember Senator Edward Kennedy. Can climate change be tackled using mechanical trees and algae? Science correspondent Tom Feilden reflects on the first 100-year action plan to tackle climate change to be published. Dr Tim Fox, Head of Environment and Climate Change at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, discusses whether an artificial environment could be the solution to global warming. Reporter Huw Williams visits Stirling to hear the music that could have formed a soundtrack to the time when Mary, Queen of Scots lived in Stirling Castle. Thought for the day with Professor Mona Siddiqui, of the University of Glasgow. Reporter Jack Izzard speaks to two former hooligans about what makes people get involved in this kind of violence. Author Caroline Gall considers the extent of damage that violence does to the glossy image of the Premier League. Michael Summers, Vice-Chairman of the Patients Association, and Dame Christine Beasley, the Chief Nursing Officer for England, discuss whether the NHS is offering a satisfactory service. Angela Knight, of the British Bankers Association, discusses Lord Turner's comment that much of the activity of the City of London is 'socially useless'. Today's new presenter, Justin Webb, joins a 'bicycle convoy' from the suburbs into central London, a scheme designed to tempt new urban cyclists into the saddle. Professor Peter Braude, of the Department of Women's Health at King's College, London, explains the medical potential of germline gene therapy. Timothy Knatchbull remembers the day his grandfather, Lord Mountbatten, was killed by an IRA bomb. Journalists John Micklethwait and Jonathon Freedland discuss Edward Kennedy's liberal reputation. James Berresford, of VisitEngland, and Tracy Corrigan, of the Daily Telegraph, discuss the appeal of 'staycations'.