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0607 | The two Thai fisherman convicted of murdering the British backpacker Katharine Horton have been sentenced to death. | |
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0609 | The Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel will tell the European parliament today about his country's plans for its presidency of the EU over the next six months. | |
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0614 | The business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0625 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0632 | The Sun newspaper claims this morning that the police have managed to foil a plot to kidnap the Prime Minister's five year old son Leo. | |
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0634 | Controversial plans for new anti-terrorism laws have suffered two defeats in the House of Lords. | |
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0637 | The Dutch have yet to decide whether they will be sending troops to Afghanistan alongside Britain in May. It may mean Britain has to send more. | |
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0639 | A review of today's papers in the UK and Jerusalem. | |
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0642 | A look at the events of yesterday in parliament. | |
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0647 | Separatist rebels in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria who're holding hostage four oil workers - one of them British - have threatened more attacks on oil installations; Shell has begun to evacuate some of its staff. | |
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0651 | The number of cases of Sudden Infant death syndrome when a parent sleeps with a baby on a sofa has risen dramatically. Professor Peter Fleming is the lead author of the study which is published in the Lancet today. | |
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0709 | Britain is taking over control of NATO's force in Afghanistan in May. It'll mean sending more troops but there's still been no announcement of how many and what they will be doing. James Arbuthnot, the Conservative chairman of the defence select committee, joins the programme. | |
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0714 | The French prime minister has announced new measures to help unemployed youngsters in the French suburbs. During the riots in November, the voices of girls and women were rarely heard. What were they doing during the riots, and how do they hope to improve their lives? | |
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0720 | Two Thai fishermen have been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of the British student Katherine Horton on New Years Day. Stephen Jacobi from Fair Trials Abroad, talks to the programme. | |
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0725 | The business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0727 | The Sun Newspaper's headline this morning is "Plot to Kidnap Leo Blair". The paper says that special branch officers had been monitoring extremists who linked themselves to Fathers for Justice. The group's founder is Matt O'Connor. | |
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0729 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0732 | The former Rueters bureau chief in Lagos, James Jukwey, and Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat's treasury spokesman and former chief economist with Shell, discuss the threat to oil workers in the Niger delta. | |
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0738 | The Scottish National Party's defence and foreign affairs spokesman, Angus Robertson, claims to have new details about CIA "rendition" flights landing in Scotland over the last three of four years. | |
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0745 | Do chimpanzees help each other and hurt each other in the same way humans do? Not according to some research from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. One of the authors of the research the Phd student Keith Jensen is in Leipzig. | |
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0747 | Thought for the daywith Reverend Roy Jenkins, a Baptis minister in Cardiff. | |
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0747 | The Lords have thrown out the government's plans to outlaw the glorification of terrorism, saying its unworkable. Labour Peer and former chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority, Toby Harris, and Lord Goodhart, a Liberal Democrat peer, discuss the latest move. | |
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0810 | David Cameron will be outlining his approach to social justice in a speech today. He says he shares the same objectives as the Chancellor in wanting to tackle poverty but that there is a desperate need for for new thinking about the means. Iain Duncan Smith talks to the programme about the Conservative party's new Social Justice Policy Group. | |
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0824 | How guilty do you feel about your knowledge and use of English? In his new book "How language works", professor David Crystal argues that only 4% of English speakers speak "standard" English, and they shouldn't condescend to the 96% who do not. Professor Crystal and Ian Bruton-Simmons, a trustee of the Queen's English society, talk to us. | |
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0827 | A sports update with Steve May. | |
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0830 | One of President Bush's strong supporters on Iraq has joined a lawsuit which hopes to fight the administration all the way to the United States Supreme Court on the issue of wiretapping and eavesdropping of the National Security Agency. The writer, Christopher Hitchens, says he suspects he's among those who might have been monitored. | |
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0838 | The Conservative leader David Cameron is unveiling his approach to tackling poverty tonight. It's part of his plan to take the Tories firmly onto the centre ground of British politics, but has what he has said so far had any success in winning over so-called swing voters? Cabinet office minister, Jim Murphy, talks to the programme. | |
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0840 | Rudyard Kipling died seventy years ago today. The writer Jad Admas has produced a new biography and talks about how Kipling's reputation has changed over the years. | |
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0849 | A business update with Greg Wood. | |
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0853 | Guardian columnist, Peter Preston, and Trevor Kavanagh, the Sun's Associate Editor and columnist, Trevor Kavanagh, discuss the current row surrounding the Education Secretary, Ruth Kelly. | |
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