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0607 | Scientists working for the Medical Research Council have announced the results of their tests on one of the viruses taken from the Turkish bird flu cases. | |
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0609 | The two men who admitted the rape and murder of the backpacker Katherine Horton in Thailand are being sentenced today. | |
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0615 | The business news with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0625 | The sports news with Gary Richardson. | |
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0630 | The Foreign Office minister Kim Howells has described how he came to the decision to clear Paul Reeve to work in a school when he was an education minister last year. Our political correspondent, Gary O'Donohue, joins us. | |
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0635 | The German chancellor Angela Merkel is making her first trip to Washington since taking office. | |
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0638 | Now that the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany have said that their negotiations with Iran over its nuclear programme have reached "a dead end", what happens next? | |
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0645 | A review of today's papers in the UK and Seoul. | |
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0650 | A look at the events of Yesterday In Parliament. | |
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0653 | Professor Chris Shaw, a member of the team which has been given permission to experiment with human cloning to study motor neurone disease, has said scientists should consider using animal eggs as hosts to create human cells for research. | |
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0657 | The European Parliament is going to investigation the American policy of "extraordinary rendition" in Europe. Elmar Brock, the German MEP, chairs the parliament's foreign affairs committee. | |
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0709 | Zaki Badawi, principal of the Muslim College in London, talks about the stampede during this years Hajj in Saudi Arabia, in which at least 345 people were killed.
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0712 | Seven weeks from today we'll know who's going to lead the Liberal Demcrats. Sir Menzies Campbell, Simon Hughes and Mark Oaten are the three MPs who have joined the leadership race, but it looks as if there will be at least one other runner alongside them. The MP for Eastleigh, Chris Huhne, joins us. | |
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0715 | The business news with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0725 | As the West searches for a response to Iran's resumption of its nuclear programme, one sanction that has been suggested is cutting off sporting ties. The Conservative MP and former shadow foreign secretary, Michael Ancram, joins the programme. | |
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0728 | The sports news with Gary Richardson. | |
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0732 | Different European Union countries have been developing different mechanisms for dealing with terrorism suspects. Franco Frattini, the EU Justice Affairs commissioner, talks about whether there should be a more uniform approach. | |
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0738 | George Saunders, admired by the likes of Thomas Pynchon, Tobias Wolff and Jay McInerney, is one of a new generation of American short story writers. We hear a taster of one of his short stories. | |
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0745 | Thought for the day with the Righ Reverend Richard Harries, Bishop of Oxford. | |
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0750 | Child protection consultant, Mike Haimes, and Donald Findlater, the deputy director of the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a child protection charity, talk about the controversy surrounding the appointment of a sex offender as a teacher. | |
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0810 | The effort to prevent Iran from resuming its nuclear programme by diplomatic means has reached a dead end, according to the foreign ministers of Britain, Germany and France. So what happens next? The Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, talks to the programme. | |
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0821 | London Zoo is just completing its annual stocktake during which every bird, beast, bug and fish is counted. The zoo is home to 600 different species and tens of thousands of creatures. So how exactly do you keep count of them all? | |
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0826 | The sports news with Gary Richardson. | |
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0830 | There is a paper in the British Medical Journal arguing that cancer patients are suffering because many of our radiotherapy departments are heavily overstretched. We are joined by the man who wrote it, David Dodwell of Cookridge Hospital in Leeds, and Professor Mike Richards, the Department of Health's National Director of Cancer. | |
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0833 | The Dutch Government will announce over the next few weeks whether it is to make it a crime to wear traditional islamic dress which covers the face apart from the eyes. | |
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0845 | The Economist has published details of a map which might prove that the Chinese Admiral Zheng He reached America before Christopher Columbus. Stephen Fay wrote the piece. | |
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0850 | The business news with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0853 | The latest outbreak of bird flu in Turkey is clearly a major challenge for vets and public health officials, but it is also a big blow for the local tourist industry. Last year 21 million people visited Turkey, a trade worth 10 billion pounds. | |
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0855 | Former SAS Soldier, Andy McNab, and James Meek, the award winning war correspondent with the Guardian, discuss Sam Mendes' new film, Jarhead. | |
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0857 | The German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, is going to Washington today. The former Clinton administration official, Ron Asmus, and Michael Sturmer of Die Welt Newspaper in Germany, discuss the visit | |
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