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0610 | Condoleezza Rice has announced that the UN Convention Against Torture will apply to American interrogators in the US and now also overseas. | |
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0614 | The law lords will rule today on whether intelligence obtained through torture is admissible in this country. | |
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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 | The kidnappers in Iraq have extended their deadline by two days and said they will kill their hostages if their demands are not met. | |
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0635 | David Cameron is expected to organise his Shadow Cabinet today. | |
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0640 | Tony Blair is meeting six European leaders today to settle the row over the EU budget. | |
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0642 | The Red Cross has a new emblem, a red crystal, which paves the way for Israel to join the movement after nearly six decades of exclusion. | |
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0644 | The paper reviews from Britain and Cairo. | |
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0650 | A look at the events of Yesterday In Parliament. | |
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0655 | MPs will be told today how many animals are being used for laboratory tests. | |
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0709 | Norman Kember's kidnappers have threatened to kill him unless Iraqi prisoners are freed. | |
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0715 | We speak to Iztok Mirosi, the Ambassador of Slovenia about Tony Blair's EU budget proposals that would involve big cuts in handouts to smaller newly joined countries such as Slovenia. | |
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0720 | The business news with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0723 | David Cameron promised to tackle the lack of women MPs from his party. What can he do? | |
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0725 | We heard last night that Lady Thatcher had been admitted to hospital after complaining of feeling faint. | |
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0727 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0731 | How will the Liberal Democrats react to the new leader of the Conservatives? We speak to Charles Kennedy. | |
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0740 | Hear the Today Programme report from 25 years ago when John Lennon was shot outside his apartment building in Manhattan. | |
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0745 | Thought For The Day with Anne Atkins, Novelist and Columnist. | |
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0750 | The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland, has appealed for intervention from the international community to tackle the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe. | |
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0810 | We speak to William Hague, who is now Shadow Foreign Secretary, and ask him why he has returned to the front bench. | |
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0825 | Hear a Jim Naughtie report about a young British conductor who made a public debut yesterday at the opening of the opera season at La Scala. | |
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0830 | John Lennon was shot 25 years ago today. Here on Radio 4 various fans and friends will be remembering him in two-minute interviews played between programmes. Hear one recorded by Libby Purves. | |
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0832 | The business update with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0838 | We talk to Ahmed Hashim, a Professor of Military Stategy at the US Naval War College, about the kidnapped peace activist Norman Kember. | |
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0841 | Arnold Schwarzenegger has to decide today whether to save the life of a notorious convicted killer. He is under considerable pressure from death penalty opponents and fellow Hollywood stars. | |
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0850 | Will being an Old Etonian be a curse or a blessing for David Cameron? Two former pupils, Lord Onslow and Jacob Rees Mogg, tell us their views. | |
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