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0607 | A 19 year-old man will appear before magistrates in Leeds today charged with murdering PC Sharon Beshenivsky. | |
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0609 | President Bush will make great claims today about the progress being made by Iraqi security forces. | |
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0615 | The business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0625 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0630 | The people who kidnapped four western hostages in Iraq, including the British Christian peace activist Norman Kember, have released a video of their prisoners. | |
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0635 | A look at what to expect from the Pensions Commission report published today. | |
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0640 | The human rights group Liberty are accusing the CIA of using British airports in the course of transferring prisoners to secret camps in eastern Europe. | |
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0645 | The paper reviews from Britain and Paris. | |
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0650 | A look at the events of Yesterday in Parliament. | |
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0653 | Britain and the United States are being accused by Oxfam of using illegal subsidies to support the production of many agricultural products. | |
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0709 | The British Christian peace activist Norman Kember has now been seen on the video released by his abductors in Iraq. | |
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0714 | We look at the different ways the Government has attempted to reform the pensions system and speak to David Laws. | |
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0720 | The business news with Greg Wood interviewing Alistair Darling. | |
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0726 | We speak to Professor Colin Blakemore, the Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council, to get the latest news about Bird Flu. | |
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0730 | Hear the first in a series of special reports made for us by Lord May, who used to be the Government's chief scientist, about climate change. | |
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0739 | What do you do with a vulture who has been bred in captivity and has never had to fly? Steve Eales is taking his to a wind tunnel to show it what to do. | |
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0745 | Thought For The Day with Indarjit Singh, Editor of The Sikh Messenger. | |
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0750 | The human rights group Liberty has launched a campaign against the American Central Intelligence Agency. | |
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0810 | What can we expect from Lord Turner's pensions review? We talk to Malcolm Rifkind & John Denham. | |
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0827 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0835 | A poetry archive is being launched on line meaning that the voices of poets reading their own work will be available to anyone. Andrew Motion tells us about it. | |
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0840 | The business update with Greg Wood. | |
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0845 | Can the World Trade Organisation meeting in Hong Kong produce "fair trade"? We talk to Prof Jospeh Stiglitz the former chief economist at the World Bank. | |
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0850 | The thousandth execution in North Carolina since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976 is due to take place this week. We speak to Sister Helen Prejean who has campaigned tirelessly against the death penalty in that area. | |
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0855 | The Christmas lists of books are in the papers at the moment but what should we be reading? We ask the journalists Robert McCrum and Erica Wagner to give us their favourites. | |
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0858 | We talk to Danny Finkelstein, of The Times, and Simon Hoggart, of The Guardian, about Michael Howard's last challenge to Tony Blair today in PMQs. | |
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