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0708 | The CIA director George Tenet is to take the blame for the inclusion of a false allegation about Iraqi attempts to procure uranium in Africa. Our Washingtion Correspondent Rob Watson reports. | |
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0711 | George Bush is in Nigeria - our correspondent Barnaby Phillips is with him. | |
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0714 | The Education Secretary Charles Clarke is going to have to explain next week how he's going to avoid a repeat of this year's fiasco over school funding. This report from our local government correspondent John Andrew.
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0718 | The amount of time patients spend travelling to hospital for kidney dialysis has been very much in the spotlight this week - on the programme yesterday we heard from a doctor who claims that kidney patients have died because they couldn't cope with the long journeys they have to make for treatment. Listen to our report.
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0732 | The father of the youngest British soldier to die in Iraq is planning to write to the Prime Minister to ask Mr Blair why we went to war. Private Andrew Kelly was killed in a shooting accident in Basra on May 6th. Robert Kelly is in our studio in Plymouth. Also on the line is the Liberal Democrat Peer William Wallace.
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0741 | A review of today's papers with Charlotte Green.
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0744 | There was a public meeting in Kings Lynn last night to discuss concerns about the large number of Chinese immigrants moving into the town. Hear the report. | |
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0751 | More than 200 MPs have signed a commons motion calling for the two British citzens facing military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay to be returned to Britain for trial. | |
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0808 | The Director of the CIA - the world's top spy - has done something that spies very seldom do George Tenet has made a very public and detailed statement about the use of intelligence material - and he's admitted that his Agency made a serious mistake. Here's our Defence Correspondent Andrew Gilligan.
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0822 | "I love germany. If through my words a misunderstanding has occured, I hearby apologize" The words of Stefano Stefani, the Italian minister who called visiting German tourists "blondes with a hypernationalist pride" Mr Stafani's apology comes too late though, he's been sacked by Prime Minister Belusconi. Hear Francesco Speroni, an Italian member of the Euroepan Parliament from Mr Stefani's party the Northern League.
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0834 | More than 100 charities are desperately looking for new donors because the fund set up in memory of Princess Diana is facing a court case in America which could lead to its financial ruin. Listen to the report. | |
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0842 | The Church of England Synod is meeting in York at the moment after a pretty bruising public row over homosexuality and the ministry. Perhaps the bishops and clergy should lend an ear to the words of one of the Big Brother housemates on Channel Four this week..
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0850 | How much trouble is Tony Blair in ? Is the current unrest merely the midterm blues - is it something worse?
Hugo Young is the Guardians poliical commentator and Charles Leadbeeter is a friend of the prime minister and an advisor to his policy unit. | |
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0855 | Our regular Saturday Essay this week is the Deputy Managing Editor of the Johannesburg Sunday Times, Lizeka Nda, who wrote about President Bush's visit to South Africa. | |
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