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| How will Brazil, the country with the most Catholics react to a pope from Germany? | |
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0609 | John Bolton's confirmation hearing as US ambassador to the UN is delayed following fresh allegations against him. | |
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0615 | Business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0626 | Sports news with Steve May. | |
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0631 | Edward Stourton in Rome and Tim Franks in Germany gauge reaction to the election of Cardinal Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVI. | |
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0635 | The council tax moves centre stage in the election campaign this morning. Our correspondent Norman Smith. | |
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0638 | US carmaker Ford is expected to announce massive losses later today. This follows yesterday's announcement of losses at the world's biggest carmaker, General Motors. Our Buisness correspondent Steve Evans. | |
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0640 | A review of today's papers with Peter Donaldson. | |
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0643 | A look at the Italian papers with Edward Stourton in Rome. | |
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0646 | Our political correspondent David Wilby looks at why the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has accused the Conservatives of running a nasty campaign. | |
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0649 | The acting head of the UN refugee agency, Wendy Chamberlin tells us why she is visiting conflict-torn Darfur and what the UN is doing to protect people there.
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0653 | Should there be an academic boycott of Israeli universities in protest at the treatment of the Palestinians? | |
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0709 | As Joseph Ratzinger prepares to celebrate his first mass as Pope Benedict XVI today, Edward Stourton finds out kind of Pope will he be. | |
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0715 | Catch up on the election issues making waves with James Naughtie on our battle-bus in Lancashire. | |
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0722 | Business update with Greg Wood. | |
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0724 | Now that the Europe issue hasn't taken a centre stage in this election, where does this leave the UK Independence Party? We speak to a UKIP MEP who is standing in eight constituencies, Dr John Whittaker. | |
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0728 | Sport update with Steve May. | |
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0730 | What is the state of the US car industry, following profit worries by US car giants General Motors and Ford? | |
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0744 | Comedian Al Murray - commonly known as 'the Pub Landlord' - on election language and where it will eventually take us. | |
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0746 | Thought for the day with Catherine Pepinster, Editor of the Tablet. | |
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0749 | Is the the economy stupid? And if it is what does that mean for our election? We speak to Dr Irwin Stelzer, American columnist and scholar at the free-market Hudson Institute, Washington. | |
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0810 | Hear Edward Stourton's historic interview with the new Pope, Joseph Ratzinger recorded some years ago. | |
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0827 | Sport update with Steve May. | |
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0830 | BBC's political editor Andrew Marr with a regular round-up of the election campaign. | |
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0837 | Business update with Greg Wood. | |
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0840 | What do foreigners who live in this country think of our election? Annabel Crabb writes for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Melbourne Age, Stryker Maguire for Newsweek and Marc Roche for Le Monde. | |
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0850 | When you think of Aberystwyth - what springs to mind? It's probably not gangsters, blackmail and kidnapping, but if crime novelist Malcolm Pryce has his way, it soon could be. Our Arts Correspondent Rebecca Jones. | |
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0854 | Prof Nicholas Lash of Cambridge University and Dr Sam Gregg of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty in Rome on Joseph Ratzinger, the new Pope. | |
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