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0607 | We could soon get a national squad of police officers who'll protect witnesses in criminal trials. | |
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0610 | Allegations are flying around this morning that BBC Director General, Mark Thompson, once bit a fellow colleague. | |
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0615 | The business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0628 | The sports news with Garry Richardson. | |
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0632 | An explosion at a BP oil refinery in Texas has killed at least 14 people. | |
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0635 | The Science and Technology committee publishes its report into the way human reproduction and embryo research is regulated. | |
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0637 | New evidence suggests that the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith changed his mind over the legality of the war in Iraq at the last minute. | |
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0641 | A review of today's papers both in Britain and America. | |
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0645 | The Deputy Prime Minister lived up to his name yesterday as he stood in for Tony Blair during PMQ's - and it made it a lively session. | |
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0650 | The Quadripartite Committee will warn the government about lifting the arms embargo against China today. | |
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0653 | More than a fifth of all girls in Britain have had sex by the time they're 14 - that's the conclusion of a survey for Bliss magazine. Susan de Vere carried it out. | |
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0709 | Paul Pendergraft, news director at KUHF public radio station in Houston, and Neil Chapman, a BP spokesman, have details of the explosion at the oil refinery in Texas. | |
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0712 | Lord Winston, professor of fertility studies, on a new report which concludes that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority should be disbanded. | |
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0717 | Sainsbury's releases its latest results - Greg Wood has the details. | |
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0720 | Bruce George, chairman of the Commons Defence Select Committee, explains why they have criticised coalition planning for post-war Iraq. | |
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0723 | The sports news with Garry Richardson. | |
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0730 | Former head of the JIC, Dame Pauline Neville Jones, on the new measures announced by the government on how they are going to approach intelligence assessments and note-take each meeting. | |
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0740 | Jan Podsiadly, Communications Manager of the Automatic Vending Association, defends vending machines being placed in schools. | |
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0745 | Protestors in Kyrgyzstan are heading towards the main government building. Monica Whitlock is in Tashkent. | |
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0747 | Thought for the Day with Dom Anthony Sutch. | |
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0750 | The Commons Science and Technology Committee have proposed radical changes to how reproductive technology is regulated - but are they needed? | |
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0810 | Did the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith change his mind over the legality of the Iraq war shortly before we invaded? | |
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0820 | 22 years after the death of American writer John Fante, one of his last books is published in the UK and being made into a film. | |
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0835 | Zubeida Malik reports on three British men in jail in Egypt, who claim to be wrongfully convicted for promoting an Islamic political group. | |
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0845 | A business update with Greg Wood. | |
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0847 | Author Fay Weldon comments on Toby Litt and Ali Smith, co-editors of an anthology of new writing, who have described submissions from women as "…disappointingly domestic, the opposite of risk-taking - as if too many women writers have been injected with a special drug that keeps them dulled, good, saying the right thing." | |
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0850 | Are the efforts made by those in the north of England during WWII neglected? | |
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0855 | Keith Vaz, Former Europe minister, and Professor John Kay,
Economist, discuss Michael Howard's speech today about "the Britain I believe in". | |
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