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0609 | It is three years since a young army recruit called James Collinson died at Deepcut Army Barracks, but still no inquest has been completed. It will be resumed today. | |
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0611 | The Nigerian group which kidnapped nine foreign oil workers has been threatening more of the same kind of thing. | |
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0614 | The business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0626 | The sports news with Gary Richardson. | |
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0630 | The government's doing its best to persuade us that it's doing everything it should to protect us against bird flu now that it's reached France. The papers are not convinced. | |
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0634 | The CBI is telling the government what it thinks of Lord Turner's ideas about pensions today. | |
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0640 | Britain's most controversial historian, David Irving, is going on trial in Austria today charged with denying the holocaust. | |
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0645 | A review of today's papers in the UK and Pakistan. | |
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0648 | Our moth population is in serious decline according to a report on the state of Britain's larger moths which is published today. | |
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0651 | David Mills, the husband of the culture secretary Tessa Jowell, says he's been an idiot in his dealings with the Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. Sergio Romano writes for the Italian newspaper Corriere Dell Sera. | |
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0709 | The chances that bird flu will arrive in Britain in the not too distant future seem pretty high. Indeed it may already be here; nine dead swans found across the country over the weekend are being tested for infection. What can we do about it? We talk to Sir Sandy Bruce Lockhart, the chairman of the Local Government Association. | |
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0715 | The business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0720 | The trial of the British historian David Irving is due to begin in Austria today. He is accused of denying or diminishing the Holocaust. Our correspondent in Vienna Bethany Bell spoke to Mr Irving's lawyer, Elmar Kresbach, and asked him how he would be answering the charges. | |
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0724 | Andrew Murray has one his first major tennis title in San Jose. Gary Richardson speaks him in a round up of the sports news. | |
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0730 | The president of the Black Police Association, Keith Jarrett and Peter Fahy, the chief constable of Cheshire, discuss the Sunday Time's disclosure of racism in Merseyside Police force over the weekend. | |
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0741 | Stars from the world of film gathered in central London last night for the Orange Bafta awards, where the western romance Brokeback Mountain took the award for best film. | |
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0742 | Thought for the Day with the Reverend Roy Jenkins, Baptist Minister in Cardiff. | |
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0748 | The world's largest science organisation has attacked what it sees as attempts to curb the teaching of evolution in schools. We speak to Eugenie Scott, the executive director of the National Centre for Science education which campaigns against Intelligent Design and John Henry, a professor of mathematics, who wants to see intelligent design taught in schools. | |
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0810 | Mathematical biologist Professor Neil Ferguson, and Dr Albert Osterhaus, an advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture in the Netherlands, about the danger of bird flu arriving in the UK, and the governments plan to deal with it.
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0822 | Should cabinet ministers be travelling around in a Jaguar, or a more environmentally friendly Toyota? The chairman of the Jaguar Enthusiasts Club, Keith Vincent, and Jason Torrence, campaigns director for Transport 2000 put forward their cases.
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0826 | The sports news with Gary Richardson.
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0830 | The newly named Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh has dismissed the effect of Israeli restrictions on the Palestinian Authority. He made his comments in an interview with the BBC at his home in Gaza City. | |
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0834 | Why do teenagers form gangs? Well apparently it is not to intimidate us but to protect themselves against each other. That is what a report for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found.
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0838 | There's some research coming out which suggests that the majority of children who live in areas of England where selection still operates do worse at school. Professor David Jesson of York University did the work. We also speak to David Chaytor, a Labour member of the Commons education committee, and Linda Wybar, head of Tunbridge Wells girls grammar school. | |
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0845 | The business news with Greg Wood. | |
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0850 | This week is the BBC's ACTION Week, highlighting people's efforts to influence the world around them. Our Reporter Polly Billington is looking particularly at what happens when those efforts come into contact with the mainstream political process. She has been to Kidderminster, the constituency of the Independent MP, Dr Richard Taylor. | |
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0855 | Sir Alan Sugar says women shouldn't use their sexuality to do well in business. Deirdre Walker is the London managing partner at the city law firm Norton Rose and Ruth Lea is the Director of the Centre for Policy Studies. | |
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