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0607 | The Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has persuaded his Likud party to go into coalition with its old ideological enemy the Labour party. | |
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0610 | Chief police officers have said they don't like the idea of 'toleration' zones for prostitutes. Neil Bennett has more. | |
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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 | One of the world's leading fertility experts, Lord Winston, says the human fertilisation and embryology departmentt should be abolished. Tom Fielden has the details. | |
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0635 | Ofsted says children who are excluded from school aren't being properly supported. Mike Baker has more. | |
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0638 | The government is showing a lack of urgency in trying to deal with nuclear waste. Pallab Ghosh has more. | |
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0640 | A review of today's papers both in Britain and Italy. | |
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0645 | Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy announced the two main parties in N.I will attempt to reach a political settlement again next week. | |
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0650 | Martin Gillebrand, Secretary for the Moorland Association, on the bumper grouse season which ends today. | |
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0653 | Adam Sampson of the housing charity Shelter says the big regeneration programme across the north of England has led to an increase in homelessness. | |
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0708 | Miriam Rosen, Ofsted's Director of Education, on their latest report which says excluded pupils are not being given the proper support from the local education authorities. | |
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0712 | Lord Oxburgh, Chairman of the Science Committee in the Lords and Environment minister Eliot Morley, on the government's nuclear waste problem. | |
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0717 | Ambassador Mitchell B Reece, President Bush's Northern Ireland envoy, on what part America played in the recent N.I negotiations. | |
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0721 | A business update with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0725 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0733 | Former cabinet minister Jack Cunningham and Lib Dem MP Sir Menzies Campbell discuss why Lord Butler has accused Tony Blair of taking advantage of a weak government. | |
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0743 | A group of Christian protestors have asked police in St Andrews in Fife to prosecute a theatre company because they say it is putting on a blasphemous production. Huw Williams reports. | |
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0748 | Thought for the Day with the Right Reverend Richard Harries. | |
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0751 | Andrew Moffat, who proposed the winning entry to the Today Listeners' Law and Sir David Calvert Smith, former Director of Public Prosecutions, on whether home owners should be given the right to defend their home by any means. | |
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0810 | Leading fertility expert Lord Winston and Suzy Leather, Chair of the HFEA, on what changes should be made to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. | |
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0822 | Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy is appearing in a Christmas Edition of Eastenders - but should he be? | |
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0826 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0832 | Jamal Kashoggi, media advisor to the Saudi ambassador, on why women will not be allowed to take part in the Saudi elections. | |
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0839 | A business update with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0842 | Kate Clarke reports on the ancient equivalent of Inland Revenue scripts, the oldest ever literature recorded, which are being deciphered and told to the audiences for first time in 4000 years. | |
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0846 | Its International Human Rights Day and Gugulethu Moyo, a Zimbabwean lawyer, working at the International Bar Association, spoke to us. | |
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0851 | Dr Barry Smith and Malcolm Gluck of the Guardian discuss the first ever Philosophy and Wine conference; from Science to Subjectivity. | |
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