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0607 | The BBC has turned up evidence of serious failings in the way a new computerised call system for benefit claimants is working. Kim Catcheside has more. | |
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0609 | The city of Harbin in China has been without water for three days after supplies were contaminated by a benzene leak. Louisa Lim is there. | |
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0615 | The business news with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0626 | The sports news with Mary Rhodes. | |
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0632 | The Chancellor spoke about pensions among other things to the IOD last night. Garry O' Donoghue is our political correspondent. | |
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0634 | There's a formal ceremony to mark the opening of the Rafah crossing between the Gaza strip and Egypt today. Alan Johnston reports. | |
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0636 | Colin Campbell is at the hospital in London where George Best is being treated. | |
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0639 | A look at the papers from Britain and Malaysia. | |
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0644 | We take a look at the events of Yesterday in Parliament. | |
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0650 | The biennial get-together of the leaders of the Commonwealth is beginning in Malta today. Our world affairs correspondent, Mike Wooldridge. | |
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0653 | The Housing Corporation has published a survey showing millions of people don't have a bank account. It's chief executive Jon Rouse joins us | |
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0709 | Did George Bush really want to bomb Al Jazeera? The Labour MP Peter Kilfoyle is putting down an early day motion and tells us more. | |
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0712 | Our reporter Luke Walton has been out on the town in the in Newcastle...did he survive the night? | |
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0717 | The business news with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0720 | The failings of a new computerised call system for benefit claimants. Mark Serwotka of the Public and Commercial Services. | |
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0723 | It's been a month since the CPS cleared two Metropolitan police officers accused of killing Harry Stanley. The wife of one those officers, Alison Fagan, has been talking to our reporter, Zubeida Malik. | |
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0727 | The sports news with Mary Rhodes. | |
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0734 | We hear about a tour guide for paedophiles that's being offered for sale on the web. | |
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0743 | The writer Hunter Davies on the life of George Best. | |
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0746 | Reverend Dr Alan Billings, Director of the Centre for Ethics and Religion at Lancaster University with Thought for the Day. | |
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0749 | It's now thought that about a hundred tonnes of poisonous chemicals leaked into the Songhua River in China. We talk to Darrel Malek-Wylie from the Sierra Club and Sir Jonathan Porritt, chair of the Sustainable Development Commission. | |
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0810 | Tory leader Michael Howard on the Chancellor's decisions about how to reform the state pension system. | |
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0821 | What would the founders of the temperance movement make of our new 24-hour drinking culture. | |
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0827 | More sports news from Mary Rhodes. | |
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0832 | We reflect on an extra-ordinary week in Israeli politics. | |
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0839 | George Best is still breathing with the help of a ventilator. We are joined by consultant Professor Roger Williams. | |
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0842 | A business update with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0847 | The Shadow Commission for Africa are to publish a report called "African Civil Society's agenda for Regenerating Africa". Mary Robinson is a former UN high commissioner for human rights. | |
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0851 | The people of Chechnya go to the polls this weekend to elect a new parliament - the first there since Russian troops moved back in six years ago. Steve Rosenberg reports. | |
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0855 | The pioneering leader in stem cloning, Professor Hwang Woo-suk resigned yesterday, after it emerged that some eggs he had used in his work had been donated by female researchers on his team. We talk to Dr Peter Braude from Kings College London. | |
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