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0610 | European Union foreign ministers are discussing the budget in Brussels today. | |
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0614 | Elections are being held in Egypt today with the last round of the country's staggered parliamentary elections. | |
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0620 | The business news with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0628 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0631 | David Cameron is the new leader of the Conservative Party. | |
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0635 | The European tour by the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice continues as she visits Ukraine. | |
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0640 | Nigeria is having over half of its overseas debt of £17 billion cancelled, but it still has to pay £1.7 billion back to Britain. | |
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0642 | The paper reviews from Britain and South Africa where their former Vice President has been charged with rape. | |
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0645 | A look at the events of Yesterday In Parliament. | |
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0655 | A Fabian pamphlet has been published saying that trade unions are stuck in the past. We talk to the author of the pamphlet, David Coats, and Mark Serwotka the general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union. | |
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0709 | The price of a first class stamp is to rise from April to 32 pence up from 30 pence. Second class stamps are going up by a penny to 22 pence. | |
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0715 | What faces David Cameron as the new leader of the Conservatives? We have conducted a poll, carried out by Populus, about trust and the Tories. We speak to Rick Nye, the director of the poll. | |
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0720 | The Criminal Injuries Compensation Board is going to be reformed. | |
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0725 | More business news from Rebecca Marston. | |
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0727 | The Government is being criticised over deficits in the health service. The NHS is heading towards a deficit for the year in excess of six hundred million pounds. | |
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0732 | What should happen to the £1.7 billion which Nigeria is due to pay back to Britain? We speak to Trisha Rogers, director of the Jubilee Debt Campaign, and Vincent Cable the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman. | |
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0741 | Politicians in the US are desperate to be on the satirical programme called 'The Daily Show' because it has solved the problem of getting younger voters to tune in. | |
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0747 | Thought For The Day with Dr Indarjit Singh the Editor of the Sikh Messenger. | |
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0750 | We speak to the Reverend Jesse Jackson about the criticism facing the US for their policy of "extraordinary rendition" . | |
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0810 | What can we expect from David Cameron as leader of the Conservative Party? We speak to Lord Kalms, former Tory Treasurer who was a David Davis supporter, and Lord Heseltine, former Deputy Prime Minister. | |
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0825 | The third version of the film classic King Kong comes out next week. The two earlier versions painted a picture of the era in which they were created. Does this current version do the same? | |
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0829 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0832 | The journalist Christopher Hitchens speaks to us about the coming election in Uganda and the current Government's attitude to human rights. | |
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0838 | The business update with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0841 | The protected stronghold of rare red squirrels on the Isle of Bute, off the west coast of Scotland, is facing a new threat. | |
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0850 | The Home Office is set to overhaul the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme. We talk to Diana Gorodi, whose sister Michelle died in the July 7th bombings. | |
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0855 | MI6 has commissioned a new history of itself from 1909 until 1949. We speak to Keith Jeffrey,the man commissioned to write the book. | |
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0858 | How do the Labour Party feel about facing David Cameron and his "compassionate conservative"? We speak to Labour MPs Ed Miliband and Liam Byrne. | |
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