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0607 | The police, Sikh community leaders and managers at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre meet to discuss the play which has caused such controversy. | |
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0610 | The two leading contenders in the re-run Ukrainian elections will hold a televised debate today. | |
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0615 | The business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0626 | The sports news with Garry Richardson. | |
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0632 | One of the special advocates who represented terrorist suspects facing detention by the government will formally resign today. | |
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0635 | At least sixty people were killed in bomb attacks in Shia cities in Iraq yesterday. | |
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0638 | The ID Cards Bill gets its second reading in the Commons today. Norman Smith has more. | |
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0642 | A review of today's papers both in Britain and Hong Kong. | |
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0648 | Exeter University will decide today whether to close its chemistry and music departments. | |
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0651 | A BBC investigation has discovered that doctors may be failing to diagnose a rare bone disease in small babies. | |
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0655 | Head of Social Policy at think tank IPPR, Kate Stanley, on why forcing lone parents back to work may create more problems than it solves. | |
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0708 | Former Shadow Attorney General Bill Cash explains why he is not supporting the Identity Card Bill. | |
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0712 | Baroness Helena Kennedy, a human rights lawyer, on whether special advocate Ian Macdonald was right to resign. | |
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0716 | Alan Beith, Liberal Democrat chair of the Constitutional Affairs Committee, on whether the Cabinet Office is being hypocritical by deleting any email older than three months before the Freedom of Information laws come in. | |
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0719 | A business update with Greg Wood. | |
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0722 | Can you help out the British Trust for Ornithology by becoming an early bird for the day and take part in their survey? Sarah Mukerjee has the details. | |
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0725 | The sports news with Garry Richardson. | |
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0733 | Anglican Bishop of Birmingham John Sentamu and writer and playwright Hanif Kureishi on the discussions surrounding the play at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre. | |
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0744 | Miles Kington and Humphrey Lyttelton give their nominations for the Listeners' Lord. | |
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0747 | Thought for the Day with Reverend Dr Colin Morris. | |
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0751 | Dr Wendy Patterson, Coordinator of the campaign Parents against Cuts at Exeter University, on what action will be taken if the Council backs the departmental closures. | |
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0810 | Ian Macdonald QC explains why he resigned as a Special Advocate, a lawyer assigned to represent those held without charge. | |
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0822 | The London Stock Exchange has received a formal take-over bid. Greg Wood has the details. | |
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0824 | The American Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admits he didn't sign letters of condolence for service personnel. | |
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0828 | The sports news with Garry Richardson. | |
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0833 | Will the ID Card Bill get through with so much rebellion from the backbenches? Mark Oaten, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs spokesman and Immigration Minister Des Browne. | |
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0842 | A business update with Greg Wood. | |
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0844 | Gillian Reynolds and others with their nominations for the Listeners' Lord. | |
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0846 | Sanchia Berg reports on claims from Professor Robert Jan Van Pelt that part of Auschwitz has been damaged. | |
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0851 | Evan Harris, Lib Dem MP and Honorary Associate of National Secular Society and Dr Jasdev Rai, Director of the Sikh Human Rights Group, discuss whether the play 'Behzti' in Birmingham should continue. | |
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