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Radio 4,31 Oct 2014,45 mins

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Fiona Woolf resigns as chair of the historical child abuse inquiry. We hear from a friend of hers, discuss Teresa May's handling of the issue - and what happens to the inquiry now. A Virgin Galactic passenger spaceship crashes during a test flight in the Mojave Desert in California. We assess the impact on Sir Richard Branson's global ambitions. After two polls suggesting a collapse in Labour's vote in Scotland, we debate what is going wrong and how they could get themselves out of the hole. Plus Jamie Coomarasamay in Kentucky for the US mid terms, and Caroline Wyatt on the launch of the "poppy hijab" And we hear from the writer of a new song by African artists trying to raise money for the ebola epidemic. In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. with David Eades.

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