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0607 | An armed siege has continued throughout the night in the Lancashire town of Rawtenstall. | |
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0609 | Final campaigning is underway in Singapore as the candidates to host the 2012 Olympics gather ahead of the IOC's vote tomorrow. | |
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0615 | Business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0626 | Sport with Garry Richardson. | |
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0630 | A pre-G8 African summit is being held in London today, whilst the first G8 protestors arrested in Edinburgh will appear in court. | |
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0634 | Norman Smith on the political fallout of President Chirac's comments about the British, and the ongoing row over id cards. | |
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0637 | Armed militants are reported to have entered a disputed religious site at Ayodhya in India. | |
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0640 | A review of today's papers in both the UK and Spain. | |
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0647 | Yesterday in Parliament with Rachel Hooper. | |
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0651 | Are the rising number of ASBOs being imposed on children doing more harm than good? | |
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0709 | President Chirac's candid jokes about the British may heighten Anglo-French tensions ahead of the G8 summit. French Socialist MP and former Culture Minister, Jack Lang, explains how the French view this faux pas. | |
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0714 | A spat between the international scientific community could have grave implications for global policy on climate change. | |
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0718 | Simon Davies of the London School of Economics, who worked on the damaging ID cards report, explains why he believes the policy now "oozes the stench of death". | |
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0721 | Business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0723 | Dr Silvia Gonzalez, who led the expedition that found 40,000 year old footprints in central Mexico, explains how the discovery challenges orthodox history. | |
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0726 | Sports with Garry Richardson. | |
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0732 | Jon Manel reports from Srebrenica a decade after the massacre of 8000 muslim men and boys marked the town as the site of one of the worst atrocities in recent history. | |
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0744 | Seven new academies are being launched to nurture British film-making talent. Stewart Till, Chair of the UK Film Council, and William Sargeant of Framestore, join us.
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0747 | Thought for the Day with the Right Reverend Tom Butler, the Bishop of Southwark. | |
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0750 | Home Office Minister Tony McNulty and Professor Ivor Crewe, Vice Chancellor at Essex and President of Universities UK, debate the tightening of rules on visas for foreign students. | |
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0810 | As anti-globalisation protests are held ahead of the G8 summit, Cambridge economist Professor Noreena Hertz and Sir Mark Moody-Stuart,Chair of G8 Business Action for Africa, discuss whether business will aid or hinder Africa. | |
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0820 | To mark Veterans Awareness Week Lord Deedes, the former cabinet Minister and Daily Telegraph editor, recalls his experiences of the War. | |
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0826 | Sport with Garry Richardson. | |
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0833 | Chefs Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Raymond Blanc discuss President Chirac's assertion that "after Finland, Britain is the country with the worst food". | |
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0838 | The former lighting director of the Millennium Dome has pleaded guilty to defrauding NMEC, the dome management company. | |
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0846 | Business update with Greg Wood. | |
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0849 | Architects Stephen Bayley and Robert Adam debate whether new country houses in Britain should always be "sentimental and backward looking". | |
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0854 | Patrick Smith, Editor of Africa Confidential, and Professor Michael Grubb from the Carbon Trust look ahead to what the G8 summit can achieve on trade and climate change. | |
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