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0607 | The United Nations is getting very agitated about what is happening in Ivory Coast. | |
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0609 | The Centre for Policy Studies has accused the government of "plundering" National Lottery money to pay for projects that should be funded by the taxpayer. | |
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0614 | The business news with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0625 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0632 | The education secretary, Ruth Kelly, survived yesterday. But there's another big test coming up. | |
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0634 | A special team set up to reinvestigate unsolved murders from the troubles in Northern Ireland begins work today. | |
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0637 | Iraq voted for a new parliament before Christmas but the results still haven't been announced. They should be today. | |
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0639 | A review of today's papers in the UK and Cambodia. | |
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0642 | A look at the events of yesterday in parliament. | |
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0647 | An american oil worker held hostage in Nigeria is gravely ill and there are fears for the safety of the other three hostages being held with him, one of whom is British. | |
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0651 | The government should be legally forced to tell us every year how much aid it's giving to the world's poorest countries and should be legally obliged to reach the target of giving 0.7% of our national income. That is the essence of a bill, which has been sponsored by Labour MP, Tom Clarke. | |
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0709 | Labour politicians turned out in force last night to tell the government what they think of the way it wants to change the way our schools are run. The meeting was called by what's known as the Compass Group, and David Chaytor, a Labour member of the education select committee was there. | |
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0714 | The Vice President Dick Cheney says the apparent offer of a truce from Osama Bin Laden is a "ploy". It was made in a new audio message from the Al Quaeda leader which Al Jazeera broadcast and which the CIA has authenticated. Ryan Lizza, senior editor of the New Republic, shares his thoughts on these latest exchanges. | |
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0720 | The business news with Rebecca Marston. | |
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0727 | The Centre for Policy Studies claims that lottery money is being raided by the government for projects it should pay for from taxation. The minister with responsibility for the lottery, Richard Caborn, and Ruth Lea, who wrote a report called "The larceny of the Lottery Fund" join us. | |
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0729 | The sports news with Steve May. | |
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0732 | Austria has taken over the presidency of the EU, and is trying to resurrect the constitution. Olli Rehn, the enlargement commissioner, is coming to London today to make a speech. | |
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0742 | It is more than a century since Peter Pan was created and now, Geraldine McCaughrean is writing a sequel. | |
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0747 | Thought for the day with The Right Reverend Richard Harries - Bishop of Oxford. | |
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0750 | US Republican Senator, Sam Brownback, speaks about the latest broadcast from Osama Bin Laden. | |
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0810 | Ruth Kelly seems to have survived the row over paedophiles in schools after her performance yesterday. Can she survive the next big row, over how much independence schools should have? The shadow education secretary, David Willets, talks to the programme.
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0824 | In thirty years of Northern Ireland's Troubles 2000 killings went unsolved. Today a special investigating team starts the work of going through each case again to see if they can come up with any answers. The Northern Ireland Secretary, Peter Hain, tells us more. | |
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0827 | A sports update with Steve May. | |
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0830 | After one of the toughest weeks in her political career, education secretary, Ruth Kelly, tells the programme about the governments education reforms. | |
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0838 | The business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0840 | Cannabisis not going to be reclassified as a more dangerous drug even though many say that it's far more potent these days than it was. Is that true? Matthew Atha is the director of the Independent Drug Monitoring Unit. | |
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0849 | As gas reserves diminish faster than anticipated in the North Sea, the UK is increasingly importing gas from abroad. Nicola Stanbridge reports on the construction of two new terminals for shipments of Liquefied Natural gas in Pembrokeshire, which a local pressure group say it exposes the public to unnecessary risk. | |
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0853 | Some of our brightest young writers are basing their novels on the theme of global warming. One of them is Susannah Waters, whose book Cold Comfort is just out, and she joins the programme with Ian Jack, the editor of the literary magazine Granta. | |
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