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"The coronation is a tribute to an institution rather than a person, with whom quite a lot of thoughtful people in this country disagree" Robert Lacey, historian, tells Edward Stourton the King's coronation should be a shorter event than the Queen's in 1953 which lasted 3 hours. https://t.co/bEQL04SgqN

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Coming up on #BBCWATO: + Nicola Sturgeon’s husband is arrested in a probe of SNP finances + Would changing the definition of ‘sex’ in the Equality Act weaken trans rights? + Angela Levin on Camilla’s journey to being Queen

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“There is a big difference between the personal past and the collective past” Author Georgi Gospodinov talks to #BBCWATO about his International Booker prize winning book, Time Shelter. Listen in full: https://t.co/x8M7WcN0Im https://t.co/w9WAGzB0We

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Dame Hilary Mantel, author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy, has died aged 70. Her literary agent Bill Hamilton tells @JonnyDymond that Dame Hilary had "inexhaustible talent and determination" in her work. https://t.co/ygqAIGs8Vw | #BBCWATO https://t.co/gPif5ty1Wk

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On #BBCWATO today... + Interest rates go up again but will savers benefit? + Junior doctors announce a 4-day strike. Why won't they compromise on demands for a 35% pay rise? + The Dalai Lama reveals the young boy who'll lead Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia. https://t.co/sZJ969h6cE

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The Arctic Monkeys' version of 'I Wanna Be Yours' is about to clock up 1 billion streams on Spotify. John Cooper Clarke - who wrote it - tells #BBCWATO about the public's enduring love affair with his poem. https://t.co/dmMKM4IuZY

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