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0607 | More cases of humans catching bird flu have been confirmed in Turkey. | |
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0609 | Iran says it will resume nuclear fuel research today despite the international pressure not to do so. | |
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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 Liberal Democrats' Federal Executive Committee is meeting tonight to set a timetable for a leadership election. | |
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0635 | David Cameron will set out his views on education later today. | |
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0640 | Ariel Sharon's doctors have issued a statement this morning. | |
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0645 | London Underground says a strike by its workers overnight and into today is having little effect on services. | |
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0650 | A look at the papers from Britain and Austria. | |
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0653 | Hear our report about the current political uncertainty in Jerusalem and the highly charged Palestinian election campaign. | |
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0655 | More than a quarter of obese people do not want to lose weight and many of those questioned in a survey by Cancer Research UK were unaware of the advantages of a healthy lifestyle. | |
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0709 | Tony Banks, the former sports minister, has died after suffering a massive stroke at the age of 62. We look back on his life. | |
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0712 | The Liberal Democrats are preparing for a leadership election. Hear the latest news from Westminster. | |
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0715 | Doctors are preparing to bring Ariel Sharon out of his coma. The hospital where he is being treated has said there was no change in his condition overnight. | |
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0720 | The entire EU commission will be in Vienna today for the start of Austria's presidency of the EU. | |
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0723 | More business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0727 | We speak to Bernardus Ganter who is the co-ordinator of the World Health Organisation mission sent to investigate the fatal cases of bird flu in south eastern Turkey. | |
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0729 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0732 | General Sir Michael Rose, formerly one of the top officers in the British Army, tells us why he thinks the PM should be impeached over Iraq. | |
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0738 | The Science Museum in London thinks it may have found the answer to Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, a type of winter depression. | |
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0745 | Thought For The Day with Revered Doctor Alan Billings, Director of the Centre for Ethics and Religion at Lancaster University. | |
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0750 | What education reforms could we expect from a Conservative Government? We talk to David Willets, the shadow education secretary, and Jacqui Smith, the schools minister. | |
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0810 | We speak to Paddy Ashdown, an influential Liberal Democrat voice, about the coming Liberal Democrat leadership contest. | |
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0821 | Hear our report on the young author David Mitchell, who wrote the best selling novel 'Cloud Atlas', but says his new book is the first novel he never wrote. | |
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0830 | It is ten years since work began on the Newbury Bypass, you may remember the huge row over the environmental impact of the road at the time. We ask John Gummer, the Environment Secretary at the time, if the bypass has done what it was supposed to do. | |
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0835 | The business update with Greg Wood. | |
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0833 | Stephen Pound and Diane Abbott talk to us about the death of Tony Banks. | |
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0849 | Files released under the Freedom of Information Act by the National Archives in London show that at the end of the Second World War Nazi prisoners were treated appallingly at the hands of the British Intelligence. Hear our report. | |
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0853 | Why are British soldiers sent to war to put their lives at risk with some of the worst guns around? This question is raised in a new book by the former naval officer Lewis Page. We talk to Mr Page and the former Armed Forces Minister John Spellar. | |
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