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0607 | A committee of MPs has concluded that the tax credit system is a nightmare. | |
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0609 | Interior ministers from across the EU are meeting in Newcastle today to talk about terrorism. | |
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0615 | Business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0626 | Sports news with Steve May. | |
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0632 | The damning Volcker report on the oil-for-food programme has shaken the UN. | |
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0635 | We talk to our correspondents Daniela Relph and Jon Manel about the current situation in the Gulf of Mexico affected by the recent hurricane. | |
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0638 | A former Labour social security minister is accusing the government of having allowed the Child Support Agency to become chaotic. | |
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0641 | Research published today warns that the Trade Union Movement faces a bleak future because of falling membership. | |
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0647 | A review of today's papers from Britain and Cairo. | |
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0650 | A single mother of three children, Becky Cooper, complains about the tax credit system. | |
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0653 | How is Australia dealing with the Ashes fever? | |
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0709 | Never before has a President of the United States had to ask the Congress for 50 billion dollars to rebuild communities swept away by a natural disaster. | |
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0716 | The Shadow Foreign Secretary and former Chairman Dr Liam Fox is in the running for the Conservative leadership contest. | |
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0720 | Business update with Greg Wood. | |
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0724 | How much damage has been done to the United Nations by the fiasco over Iraq's oil-for-food programme? | |
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0729 | Sports update with Steve May. | |
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0734 | The former social security minister, Frank Field and Lord Hunt, the current minister, discuss the role of the Child Support Agency. | |
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0746 | The French president Jacques Chirac missed his weekly Cabinet meeting for the first time for ten years yesterday due to his illness. | |
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0750 | The thought for the day with the writer Rhidian Brook. | |
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0755 | Mick Jagger and John Major talk about their passion for cricket. | |
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0810 | The secretary general Kofi Annan had to admit to the Security Council that he had failed to exercise proper control over the UN. | |
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0822 | What song will the fans sing as the England's cricketers take the pitch for the big match today? The Daily Mail columnist Simon Heffer and singer Billy Bragg discuss. | |
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0826 | Sports update with Steve May. | |
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0832 | The writer Gore Vidal talks about the impact of the hurricane Katrina on America. | |
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0836 | A new play about multiculturalism called "Playing with Fire" opens in the autumn. | |
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0842 | Business update with Greg Wood | |
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0845 | Professor Sue Black of Dundee University has worked on identifying bodies in Thailand after the tsunami. She now talks about how a similar work could be done after hurricane Katrina. | |
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0854 | The political pressure on the Bush administration over hurricane Katrina is intense. | |
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0856 | Political parties are not what they used to be. | |
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