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0607 | The government will double funds for stem cell research for the next two years. | |
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0609 | An Australian has been hanged in Singapore for drug trafficking. | |
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0615 | Business with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0625 | Sports news with Garry Richardson. | |
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0630 | The primary school league tables published today have reopened the debate on the government's literacy hour. | |
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0635 | The government will scrap rules allowing local government workers to retire early. | |
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0640 | Blair will be locked in negotiations today over the EU budget. | |
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0645 | A review of the papers in the UK and Australia. | |
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0650 | Yesterday in Parliament with Robert Orchard. | |
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0653 | A reminder of the Today Programme advent calendar. | |
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0654 | The environmental policies of European countries are being scrutinised ahead of the Montreal conference on climate change. | |
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0709 | UKIP leader Roger Knapman and Lib Dem Treasury spokesman Vince Cable discuss Britain's stance on the EU budget. | |
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0715 | Robert Baer, former CIA agent in the Middle East, discusses "extraordinary rendition"; the alleged practice of moving US detainees to countries where they can be tortured. | |
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0720 | Business with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0723 | Jon Manel investigates why a play about Guantanamo can only be staged at the House of Commons if it is not billed as a play. | |
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0727 | Garry Richardson has a cricket update. | |
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0732 | Are primary school league tables redundant? Headmistress Barbara Jones and former Education Secretary Estelle Morris. | |
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0747 | Thought for the Day with Rev Dr Alan Billings - Director of the Centre for Ethics and Religion at Lancaster University. | |
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0750 | Should the reclassification of cannabis as a class c drug be reversed in light of violent crimes caused by addicts? Cliff Prior, chief executive of Rethink, and Lord Mackenzie, former head of chief superintendents. | |
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0810 | Will Blair capitulate over the EU budget? His former EU advisor, Sir Stephen Wall and Michael Howard discuss the rebate. | |
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0824 | Moya Ahmed of Designer Sandwiches in Covent Garden demonstrates that environmentally friendly home grown sandwiches can taste good... | |
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0828 | Garry Richardson has the latest cricket news from Pakistan. | |
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0832 | Chris Martin of Coldplay, who has campaigned to "make poverty history", discusses whether a fairer trade agreement will emerge from the WTO's Hong Kong meeting. | |
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0838 | Business with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0841 | The Defence Secretary John Reid joins us from Basra. | |
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0850 | French historian Claude Ribbe and Christopher Lee, author of Napoleon and Nelson, discuss whether Napoleon should be viewed as a heroic emperor or genocidal dictator. | |
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0855 | Will the Prime Minister succeed in brokering a deal on the EU budget? Bronwen Maddox, Foreign Editor of the Times and Daily Telegraph Political Editor George Jones. | |
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