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0607 | Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, is visiting Beirut today. Our Correspondent is there.
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0609 | Thai police are continuing to search for Katherine Horton's killer. | |
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0615 | The business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0626 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0631 | Israel's Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, is in surgery after he suffered what doctors described as a "significant" stroke and massive internal bleeding. | |
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0633 | Two Liberal Democrat MPs have now said that Charles Kennedy should submit himself to a vote of confidence. | |
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0635 | The Home Office is publishing a consultation paper today on how it plans to deal with people trafficking. | |
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0640 | Two Turkish children are thought to have died from bird flu. The World Health Organisation says it is likely they had the H5N1 strain. | |
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0645 | A look at the papers from Britain and Kuala Lumpur. | |
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0650 | Hear more on the Jack Abramoff scandal which is expected to dominate American politics for much of the year. | |
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0655 | The Equal Opportunities Commission says that despite the sex discrimination acts, passed 30 years ago, women will not have equal power in this country for 200 years. | |
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0709 | Hear the latest news on the condition of Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, who has spent the night in surgery. | |
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0714 | We speak to Baroness Tongue about the Liberal Democrat leadership crisis. | |
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0718 | More business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0722 | Two children have died from suspected bird flu in Turkey; they would be the first cases outside Asia of the H5N1 strain of the disease in humans. We talk to Professor Colin Blakemore, the Chief Executive of the Medical Research Council. | |
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0726 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0735 | What challenges face the farming industry in 2006? Hear our report from the Oxford Farming Conference. | |
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0745 | Thought For The Day with Dr Jeevan Singh Deol, lecturer at the school of Oriental and African Studies. | |
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0750 | Ariel Sharon is in a severe but stable condition in intensive care. The Foreign Secretary Jack Straw tells us what he has been told. | |
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0810 | We speak to David Cameron about the changes he has made to the Conservative Party in his first month of leadership. | |
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0830 | What exactly is medically wrong with Ariel Sharon? Dr Graham Venables gives us his analysis. | |
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0835 | How will Ariel Sharon's stroke affect Middle Eastern politics? We talk to Daniel Shek, Director of the British Israel Communication Centre and former adviser to Shimon Peres, and Anton La Guardia, from the Daily Telegraph. | |
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0837 | The business update with Greg Wood. | |
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0840 | This year is the 250th Anniversary of Mozart's birth and music stations are planning events to celebrate, we also celebrated the bicentenary of his death in 1991. Are we overdoing anniversary celebrations and commemorations? | |
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0849 | A study has been launched to find out how to stop a steep decline in the numbers of sheep on the North York Moors. | |
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0855 | The campaign group Migrationwatch says that arranged marriages are being used as a form of immigration to this country. We talk to Sir Andrew Green, the chairman of Migrationwatch and Labour Peer Baroness Uddin. | |
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