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0607 | There's going to be a major shake-up at the United Nations with plans for an organisation to be pro-active in dealing with security threats. | |
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0610 | Three houses in Manchester are being searched under the Terrorism Act. Tim Muffett has more. | |
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0615 | The business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0626 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0632 | Rail fares will rise above the rate of inflation again next year. Tom Symonds has the details. | |
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0635 | Documents have been published which claim to show that the nanny of David Blunkett's lover had the documents allowing her to remain in this country processed in 19 days. Norman Smith has more. | |
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0637 | France's Socialist Party will vote today on whether to support the EU constitution. Caroline Wyatt is in Paris. | |
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0640 | A review of today's papers both in Britain and Italy. | |
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0645 | Less than a fortnight after the hunting ban, MPs have been airing their concerns that attempts would now be made to ban other field sports. David Wilby reports. | |
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0652 | Russian, Lithuanian and EU figures are trying to bring both sides of the Ukrainian government together, while the Supreme Court considers its ruling on the validity of the election. | |
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0655 | Editor of the Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin, Dr Ike Iheanacho, on why he is concerned that 10m sleeping pill prescriptions are given out each year. | |
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0708 | Keith Best, Chief Executive of the Immigration Advisory Service, on the application made by David Blunkett's former lover's nanny. | |
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0712 | The World Health Organisation says that only one in five generic Aids drugs are passing quality control tests. Karen Allen has the details. | |
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0718 | John Whiting of Price Waterhouse Coopers on how 'salary sacrifice' helps cut company tax bills and Vince Cable, the Lib Dem treasury spokesman, on why it shouldn't be used. | |
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0724 | A business update with Greg Wood. | |
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0726 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0733 | Zimbabwean government minister Nathan Shamuyarira gives his thoughts of the England cricket tour plus Shadow Foreign Secretary Michael Ancram on how he would react if Zimbabwe offered a hand of friendship. | |
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0740 | Would you fancy your own private three day holiday which could include a round of golf with Jack Nicklaus for only £4.5m? | |
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0744 | Bob Walker reports on English Heritage's attempts to get listed status for hundreds of old hangars and control towers on old RAF airfields. | |
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0747 | Thought for the Day with Anne Atkins. | |
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0751 | Professor Peter Main, Director of Education and Science at the Institute of Physics plus, Dr Ian Gibson, Labour chairman of the science and technology committee, on their concerns over university departments closing due to lack of funding. | |
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0810 | Shadow Home Secretary David Davis on the allegations surrounding David Blunkett. | |
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0817 | Why, with only three weeks to go before Christmas, are there no train timetables available for the period? | |
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0824 | Hollywood Actress Holly Hunter on her new role in the play "By the Bogs of Cats" in London. | |
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0828 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0836 | Dr Peter Garrard of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College, London and Dame Iris Murdoch's widower, John Bayley, on Dame Murdoch's last novel which describes the first stages of Alzheimer's Disease. | |
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0839 | What will Neil Kinnock do to transform the British Council? He joins us. | |
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0846 | What should we do with our pennies? Greg Wood has the latest suggestion. | |
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0849 | Jessica Feghali of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society on her concerns over 180 whales and dolphins being stranded on Australian and New Zealand beaches. | |
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0852 | Sir Ranulph Fiennes on allegations that he is in a row with the Rambler's Association over access rights to his land. | |
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0855 | Foreign Office minister Chris Mullin on the situation in Zimbabwe. | |
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