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0607 | The families of Rover workers will be in London today demonstrating against the company being shut down. | |
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0612 | The American Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, arrives in Afghanistan today. | |
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0615 | Business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0626 | Sports news with Kirsten Webster. | |
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0632 | The Labour manifesto is launched this morning. | |
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0635 | Senators in Washington are still trying to decide whether to approve John Bolton as the new American ambassador to the UN. | |
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0640 | The Pope's tomb in St Peter's has just opened to the public. | |
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0644 | A review of today's papers in both Britain and Moscow. | |
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0650 | Susan Hulme presents the highlights of yesterday's campaigning on the election trail. | |
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0653 | The leader of the Liberal Democrats in the European Parliament, Chris Davies, discusses overly generous expenses and allowances for MEPs. | |
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0655 | How similar is the new Labour manifesto to that of 1983? | |
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0710 | Our correspondent Ian Watson and Lord Strathclyde, former leader of the Conservatives in the Lords, look at the new Labour manifesto. | |
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0712 | The families of workers at MG Rover march on Downing Street today to try to persuade the government to keep the lines of communication with the Chinese open. | |
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0718 | A business update with Greg Wood. | |
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0720 | Sarah Montague is in Nottingham to look at one of the central themes of this election campaign - crime. | |
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0722 | A sports update with Will Schindler | |
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0730 | The new Labour manifesto includes a plan to encourage parish councils in big cities. | |
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0739 | The former Home Secretary, David Blunkett, and Daisy Goodwin, the editor of eight poetry anthologies, discuss the poetry inspired by elections. | |
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0745 | Thought for the day with Akhandadi Das, a Vaishnav Hindu teacher and theologian. | |
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0749 | Polls in France suggest the EU Constitution will be rejected in next month's referendum. | |
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0810 | Labour election co-ordinator, Alan Milburn, discusses the launch of Labour's manifesto. | |
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0825 | A sports update with Will Schindler. | |
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0830 | Veteran Conservative politician, Ken Clarke, joins Sarah Montague on the election trail in Nottingham. | |
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0841 | Biographer Simon Mitten and Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, a friend and colleague of Professor Sir Fred Hoyle, discuss his legacy and the accuracy of his theory about the origin of life on earth. | |
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0846 | A business update with Greg Wood. | |
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0848 | Labour Peer Baroness Kennedy discusses the role of constitutional reform in the new Labour manifesto. | |
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0853 | The largest genetic study into human migration patterns ever conducted is about to begin, with 100,000 people giving DNA samples. | |
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0858 | Today's election panel consists of seasoned campaigners - Peter Hyman, author and former Blair speechwriter, Jo Anne Nadler, author and a Conservative press officer in the 1992 campaign; and Ian Wright, former press spokesman for Paddy Ashdown. | |
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