The Psychology Of Giving

07:08 Saturday 16th November 2013
BBC Radio 5 Live

[E]LEANOR OLDROYD: An extra £30 million is being given by the British Government to help people affected by Typhoon Haiyan. That takes its total contribution to £50 million, and is on top of £30 million being given by the British public. The Disasters Emergency Committee started its appeal on Thursday. Since then we’ve had a massive night of fundraising for Children in Need. No money from that is going to the Philippines. What will the effect of two massive appeals in a matter of days have on donations? Will people prioritise one over the other? Let’s talk to Dr Eddy Hogg from the Centre for Philanthropy at the University of Kent. Good morning Eddy.
DR EDDY HOGG: Good morning.
ELEANOR OLDROYD: We know that £31 million has been raised so far for Children in Need. Steven Wiltshire has texted us to say “That’s an amazing total for Children in Need when people have already donated £30 million plus to the DEC appeal. It’s not such a bad country we live in.” Is it? What do you think of that?
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Norman Lamb On The Francis Report Into Stafford Hospital

17:16 Tuesday 19th November 2013
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

[J]EREMY SALLIS: Hospitals in England are being ordered to publish details online every month on how many staff are on each ward. The move, to take effect next year, follows the abuse scandal at Stafford Hospital, where hundreds of patients died from neglect. In addition, the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told the Commons that senior medical staff face being struck off for poor treatment, even in cases of near misses. Well I asked our political reporter Matt Cole to explain the terrible incidents at Stafford Hospital that led to today’s announcement.
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MATT COLE: Indeed, there were some serious serious failings that led to the deaths of many many people between 2005 and 2008 at Stafford Hospital. Robert Francis QC was brought in. He did a number of reports. This second one though wasn’t so much specifically just about Stafford Hospital. It therefore expanded a little into thinking about the wider issues of care. Now there were some 290 recommendations made when that report was published earlier in the year. Today Jeremy Hunt the Secretary of State for Health said that he accepted, in principle at least, all 290, in fact 281 actually fully accepted, and 9 not, but the substance behind them was accepted. He just said in the Commons today that things had gone so badly wrong at Stafford Hospital they didn’t want them to happen again.
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US Ambassador Matthew Barzun Visiting Cambridge

17:48 Monday 18th November 2013
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

[J]EREMY SALLIS: The US Ambassador to the UK Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Matthew Barzun, is in Cambridge today. He’s giving a speech at the Cambridge Union this evening, and has spent the day visiting businesses, Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge, and also the American Cemetery at Madingley. And I’m very happy to say he’s taken a little time out of his busy schedule to join me in the studio this afternoon. A very good afternoon to you Matthew. Thank you so much for coming along.
MATTHEW BARZUN: Thank you. It’s great to be here.
JEREMY SALLIS: And have you had a productive day?
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UKTI Export Week In Cambridgeshire

17:50 Friday 15th November 2013
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

[C]HRIS MANN: It’s Export Week, a big push by the Department of Trade and Investment to boost Britain’s earnings abroad. The week’s flagship event for the East was held at Newmarket’s Rowley Mile racecourse yesterday, where about 300 firms received advice from representatives from about sixty countries overseas. Was the advice what companies needed? I asked one local businessman.
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There And Back Again By Peugeot iOn

08:27 Friday 15th November 2013
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

[P]AUL STAINTON: We are increasingly told that electric cars are the future, and we’re all going to be driving one soon, aren’t we, swapping our gas-guzzling cars for a green silent version. Well, as you may have heard on the Bigger Breakfast Show last week, in Peterborough there are six new electric car charging points went up in the city centre to encourage us to ditch our gas-guzzlers. But we were keen to find out how difficult or easy it was to use an electric car and get across the county, so we sent our reporter Waseem Mirza on a challenge. Can he travel from Huntingdon to Peterborough, Cambridge and then back to Huntingdon in a reasonable time? Well, first of all he had to get a car. He did, from Simon Atack at Anvil ESI. But as you are about to hear, it didn’t go at all well for poor old Waseem.
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SIMON ATACK: We’re here in the Peugeot iOn electric vehicle. It’s a 100% electric vehicle.
WASEEM MIRZA: OK. Well I’m very keen to find out how we do on this journey. We’re going to be going to Peterborough.
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Daniel Zeichner Cambridge Labour Questions Government Growth Statistics As Marshall Aerospace Release 200 Staff

08:22 Thursday 14th November 2013
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

[P]AUL STAINTON: Up to 200 jobs are at risk at one of Cambridgeshire’s major employers, but bosses are reassuring staff that there’s unlikely to be more losses than that. Marshall Aerospace Defence Group currently employ around 2,200 people, but now it’s reducing to what it calls normal levels, following an increased workload over the past few years. Here’s Terry Holloway. He’s the Group Support Executive at the company.
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TERRY HOLLOWAY: We would like to hope this is it. One operates in a volatile world. We’ve seen the tragic events in the Philippines, which have had a terrible effect on people working over there. We’ve conducted a review within our company, and this is it. We’re doing it in a one round issue, and of course the other part of it is at Mildenhall. We’ve come to the end of two very successful contracts to build vehicles for the Army, and we announced at the same time today that we’re closing the Mildenhall site, which has been expected. It’s been coming ever since we started our first contract. That developed into a second one, so we lose 39 jobs there.
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PAUL STAINTON: That was Terry Holloway, Group Support Executive at Marshall’s. Cambridgeshire’s Labour Parliamentary candidate is Daniel Zeichner. Morning.
DANIEL ZEICHNER: Morning Paul.
PAUL STAINTON: How much of a blow is this for Cambridge itself?
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Ross Clark On Wasted Aid

09:10 Wednesday 13th November 2013
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

[A]NDIE HARPER: The Coalition’s commitment to increase aid spending to 0.7% of gross national income has come under fire in some quarters, so this morning I want to know what kind of overseas support you think we should be giving. The Cambridgeshire based writer and business journalist Ross Clark believes that objections to offering aid can seem petty. Ross, good morning to you.
ROSS CLARK: Good morning.
ANDY HARPER: Really good to talk to you. Thank you very much for joining us. Now we often talk about aid on this programme, because lots of listeners feel that we give rather too much to other countries whilst we have our own serious problems at home. Now this presumably is slightly different, isn’t it? Last week a lot of people getting hot under the collar about India. We give so much aid to India, although that is due to stop, and yet they can afford to send rockets to Mars. But surely the Philippine situation is hugely different.
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Unitary Authority For Greater Cambridge

17:07 Monday 11th November 2013
BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

[C]HRIS MANN: So, the man who was, until earlier this year, the most powerful politician in Cambridgeshire local government, has declared his support for a radical shake-up, and the abolition of a tier of councils. It would mean an end to Cambridge City Council, East Cambs, South Cambs, Hunts District and Fenland. In their place, former Conservative Leader of the County Council Nick Clarke now favours a new unitary authority for Greater Cambridge, and an enlargement of the one in Peterborough that already exists. He says the move would save money and be more effective. I’ll get reaction live in the studio from the Leader of Cambridge City Council, and the Leader of Huntingdonshire District Council, both with axes apparently poised above their heads. But first of all Nick Clarke. Welcome.
NICK CLARKE: Good afternoon Chris.
CHRIS MANN: You didn’t say this when you were in power.
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