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0607 | We hear today whether a turkey farm in France has been infected with the H5N1 birdflu virus. | |
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0610 | Hosepipe bans in April, as the showers fall? It's possible in south-east England according to the Environment Agency. | |
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0614 | The business news with Rebecca Marsden. | |
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0626 | The sports news with Gary Richardson. | |
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0632 | A man and a woman have been arrested by police investigating a raid on a Securitas depot in Kent. | |
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0634 | The prime minister is to tell Scottish Labour activists that he has no intention of leaving office early. | |
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0637 | Baghdad and nearby provinces are now under curfew, amid sectarian unrest sparked by an attack on a Shia shrine. | |
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0639 | A review of today's papers in the UK and Washington. | |
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0646 | Who is the Palestinian's new prime minister? Katya Adler has been to Gaza to find out. | |
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0649 | EU Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, proposed new duties on certain shoe imports from China and Vietnam yesterday. Our Economics Editor Evan Davis examines Mr Mandelson's case. | |
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0652 | A Government bill will ban vehicles from unsurfaced country roads, known as green lanes. Craig Carey-Clinch represents the Motorcycle Industry Association and Ian Ritchie chairs the Green Lanes protection group. | |
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0709 | How do detectives track down the perpetrators of big cash robberies? Retired Det Supt Peter Wilton joins us. | |
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0712 | Why we need a hosepipe ban when it's raining. | |
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0715 | British troops have started building what will be their largest base in Afghanistan, Camp Bastion in the anarchic Helmand province. | |
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0717 | The business news with Rebecca Marsden. | |
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0721 | Iain Watson has been talking to some of Labour's influential and usually loyal supporters about how the prime minister should prepare for a handover. | |
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0725 | The sports news with Gary Richardson. | |
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0732 | Our reporter, Raphael Rowe, speaks to Mouloud Sihali, an Algerian currently on immigration bail, having been found not guilty of involvement in the so-called Ricin plot and Ian MacDonald is a barrister who was appointed by the government to represent detainees. | |
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0745 | Why MI6 gave British servicemen LSD. | |
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0749 | Thought for the day with The Right Reverend James Jones. | |
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0752 | Rose Winterton, the health minister, is in Vienna today to meet other European health ministers to discuss the impact of avian influenza on public health. | |
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0810 | Parts of Iraq have been put under curfew. Britain's former Special Representative to the country, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, talks to us about the prospects for Iraq after the handover of sovereignty on 30 June. | |
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0821 | Julian Barnes on why the Camden house made famous by Rimbaud and Verlaine should be saved. | |
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0825 | The sports news with Gary Richardson. | |
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0831 | The shadow chancellor, George Osborne, has been looking at the impact of low business rates. Is it going to be part of David Cameron's policy review? | |
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0836 | The film director, Robert Altman, on Arthur Miller and the knowledge that he will finally get an Oscar. | |
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0842 | The business news with Rebecca Marsden. | |
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0845 | Should we condemn Communism? Swedish MP, Goran Lindblad and Robert Service, professor of Russian history at Oxford tell us what they think. | |
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0850 | Ministers have been accused of bowing to industry pressure in watering down plans to make homes use energy more frugally. We talk to the housing minister, Yvette Cooper. | |
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