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0607 | Palestinians begin to cast their votes in the first parliamentary election to be held for a decade. | |
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0614 | The business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0626 | The sports news with Garry Richardson. | |
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0631 | Representatives from police authorities are hoping to persuade the home secretary to rethink police reform plans. | |
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0634 | Nominations close today for the Liberal Democrat party leadership. It's been an unsettled time - not helped today by the defection of a former parliamentary candidate to the Conservatives. | |
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0637 | The decision of a retired doctor to kill herself in Switzerland because she had a degenerative brain disease has reignited the debate about voluntary euthanasia. | |
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0639 | A review of today's papers in the UK and Canada. | |
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0645 | A look at the events of yesterday in parliament. | |
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0651 | The Chancellor is facing calls to explain how he'll make the savings he promised in last month's pre-budget report. John McFall is the committee's Labour chairman. | |
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0654 | Legislation allowing particular roads to be designated as "Quiet Lanes" to limit traffic has been on the statute book for five years: but why are there still so few of them? Paul Hamblin of the Campagn to protect Rural England. | |
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0709 | We speak to our correspondents live at the polls for the Palestinian legislative elections. | |
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0716 | Police representatives are lobbying MPs today on the Home Secretary's plan for the merger of forces across England. Bob Jones chairs the Association of Police Authorities. | |
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0720 | The business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0721 | We talk to the former Lib Dem general election candidate, Adrian Graves, who's going over to the Conservatives. | |
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0725 | The sports news with Garry Richardson. | |
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0734 | The issue of assisted suicide has hit the headlines again, with the case yesterday of a retired doctor from Bath ending her life with the help of doctors at a controversial clinic in Switzerland. Dr Rob George is a palliative care consultant working in west London. | |
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0743 | We've had over five hundred emails on the Radio Four UK theme's demise. We hear from one listener who's set up a protest website to save the tune. | |
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0749 | Thought for the day with the Reverend Richard Harries. | |
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0752 | Congo is to chair the African Union, after Sudan withdrew its bid following criticism of its human rights record. | |
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0810 | We talk to the Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, about his plans to merge Britain's police forces. | |
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0820 | Hilary Spurling's Matisse the Master has won the £25,000 Whitbread Book of the Year award and the author joins us. | |
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0824 | A sports update from Garry Richardson. | |
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0830 | Palestinians have begun voting in landmark parliamentary elections in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Hear from Ghazi Hamad, a spokesman for Hamas in Rafah. | |
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0837 | A business update from Greg Wood. | |
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0840 | We find out why human ashes could be altering the delicate eco-systems of Scotland's mountains. | |
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0844 | A quarter of a century since first seeds of the SDP were sown with the 'Limehouse declaration', we talk to one of the original gang of four. | |
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0852 | Zaki Badawi, founder of the Muslim College and one of the most influential muslims in Britain died yesterday at the age of 83. The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, and Dr Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, leader of the Muslim Parliament. | |
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