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0607 | What would be the consequences of an interest rate rise today? | |
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0610 | Turkey has released some Kurdish activists from jail - will this increase its chances of joining the E.U? | |
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0615 | The business news with Rebecca Marston.
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0626 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0632 | Will the talks of world leaders at the G8 summit amount to anything? Rob Watson is there.
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0634 | Polling stations open in half an hour - Norman Smith reports.
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0636 | Why are less junior doctors choosing organ transplant surgery as their career?
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0640 | A review of today's papers both in Britain and the Solomon Islands. | |
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0645 | MPs have debated whether survivors of the WWII arctic convoys should be given the 'Arctic Star' medal. | |
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0647 | Steve Crawshaw from Human Rights Watch on the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan. | |
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0651 | Why have a record number of foreign tourists visited Britain recently but not spent very much? | |
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0708 | Why is there a shortage of transplant surgeons? John Forsythe of the British Transplantation Society and Professor Peter Friend is a consultant renal surgeon.
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0717 | President Chirac has refused to agree that NATO should become involved in Iraq. Jacques Myard is a French MP. | |
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0722 | The Commons is to investigate the role of British soldiers in Iraq. British lawyer Phil Shiner is calling for a public inquiry into allegations of prisoner abuse by the soldiers.
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0726 | Why has Ireland only attracted a small number of tourists - even after spending £125m on visitor centres? Kevin Connolly reports. | |
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0734 | Should the Governor of Zimbabwe's Reserve Bank have been allowed to enter Britain? Michael Ancram and Mike Thomson. | |
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0742 | Why is wireless technology leaving us at the end of our tether? Mike Brooks of the Low Power Radio Association. | |
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0750 | What did scientists discover when they drilled two miles into the ice of Antarctica? | |
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0810 | Prince Hassan of Jordan on whether the West should impose democracy on the Middle East.
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0822 | Lord Beaumont of Whitley and David Hollamby, Governor of St Helena, on why we should think about moving to St Helena. | |
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0834 | Should Iraq's £120bn debt be cancelled? Justin Alexander of Jubilee Iraq and French journalist Benedicte Paviot. | |
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0840 | A business update with Rebecca Marston.
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0844 | Will all of the facilities at the Olympic stadium in Athens be ready in time? | |
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0849 | Is the US Presidential race becoming an all-out war?
Journalist Sheldon Rampton and Professor Coleen Graffy of Republicans Abroad | |
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0852 | Saddam Hussein's regime cut off the ears of army deserters in 1994. However there may be new hope for the victims. | |
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0855 | What would be the consequences if Tony Blair banned smoking in all bars and restaurants? | |
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