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0607 | President Chirac and Chancellor Schroeder are to meet in crisis talks over the EU constitution. | |
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0609 | The trial of Michael Jackson reaches its final stages. | |
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0615 | Business news with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0627 | Sports news with Steve May. | |
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0632 | The government is launching a review into the way schools teach children to read. | |
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0635 | A new study suggests a link between childhood cancer and overhead power lines. | |
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0641 | Chancellor Schroeder has urged EU nations to ratify the EU constitution despite "No" votes in France and the Netherlands. | |
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0643 | A 12 year old girl has been rearrested over the attack on a 5 year old boy in West Yorkshire. | |
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0645 | A review of today's papers in the UK and Germany. | |
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0648 | The Crown Prosecution Service in London is holding a conference on violence and crime in sport. | |
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0651 | The UN's Chief Prosecutor in war crimes has been in Belgrade urging the Serbians to hunt down suspected war criminals. | |
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0655 | Kate Allen of Amnesty International explains why they want senior judges to boycott the new inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane. | |
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0709 | Dominic Wyse, a lecturer in Primary Education at Cambridge, and Nick Gibb, Shadow Education Minister, look at how synthetic phonics can help children to read. | |
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0717 | Anne McGregor, Head of Communications at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, insists that, despite reports, they will not remove Bibles from hospital wards in Leicester - yet
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0720 | Business update with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0722 | New research reveals the abuse of the drug meth-amphetamine is increasing amongst the gay community in Britain. | |
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0727 | Sports update with Steve May. | |
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0732 | A new study suggests a link between childhood cancer and overhead power lines. Dr Michael Clarke, from the Radiation Protection Division of the Health Protection Agency, joins us. | |
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0740 | Was Garry's report of 5 wickets off 5 balls really a cricketing record? Cricketer Craig Primmer and Steven Lynch of the Wisden describe similar claims. | |
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0746 | Thought for the Day with Dr Mona Siddiqui, Head of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Glasgow. | |
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0750 | Leading Eurosceptic industrialists have called for a complete rejection of the EU constitution. Simon Wolfson, Chief Executive of Next, and Lib Dem MP and former MEP, Chris Huhne. | |
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0810 | Education Minister, Lord Adonis, and John Bangs of the NUT discuss the use of synthetic phonics in teaching children to read. | |
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0820 | We join intrepid climber Alan Hinkes, who has become the first Briton to have climbed all 14 peaks over 8,000m, at base camp on Kangchenjunga. | |
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0826 | Sports update with Steve May. | |
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0833 | Jonathan Fenby explains why 65 years after it sank, with a greater death toll than both the Titanic and Lusitania, there is so little trace of the Lancastria in history.
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0839 | Business update with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0843 | Should the government enforce any one system of teaching, or allow teachers to adapt? Former Chief Inspector of Schools, Chris Woodhead, and former special adviser in the Department of Education, Stuart Sexton. | |
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0850 | Robert McNamara, former President of the World Bank and US Secretary for Defence, warns against nuclear proliferation. | |
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