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0607 | The government has warned there could be a severe shortage of beds in intensive care units this winter. Our health correspondent is Adam Brimelow. | |
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0609 | Australia has reached a deal with Washington about the way their detainees at Guantanamo bay should be treated - John Leyne is at the State Department. | |
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0615 | Rebecca Marston has a round-up of today's business news. | |
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0630 | It's the Queen's speech today. So what should we expect? Our political correspondent听is Norman Smith. Danny Shaw听has been following听home affairs and听Kim Catcheside has details of changes to education laws. | |
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0640 | A听man with a long history of mental illness was able commit two murders while in the care of mental health services. Neil Bennet is our Crime Correspondent. | |
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0645 | Today's World Press Review comes from Paul Anderson in Pakistan. | |
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0650 | The Foreign Office says further terrorist attacks on western targets in Turkey may be imminent. Turkish and British police are focusing inquiries on Bingol in southeast Turkey, where it's thought the suicide bombers were from.听Richard Galpin reports from Bingol.
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0654 | It's rain, rain, rain... so why are the environment agency warning of water shortages next year? David King is the agency's director of water management. | |
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0709 | A warning is being issued today that the NHS may run out of intensive care beds this winter. Dr Saxon Ridley is the President of the Intensive Care Society and Health Minister, Rosie Winterton. | |
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0715 | It's the Queen's speech today.听Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy on the content of the speech - and whether his party can still jossle for opposition status. | |
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0721 | What's the point of a Sports Minister? and do we really need one?听We put these points to Richard Caborn - the Minister prematurely recalled from Sydney for the vote on Foundation Hospitals. | |
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0730 | The Higher Education Bill is likely to be one of the more controversial pieces of legislation announced in the Queen's speech today.听 Steven Schwartz is the vice Chancellor of Brunel University and Dr Liam Fox is the Conservative Party Chairman. | |
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0743 | Harriet Cass has a review of today's newspapers. | |
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0747 | You'll remember that six swans were fitted with tiny radio transmitters so we could see how they make their extraordionary journey from Siberia to this country as winter approaches.听So how听have they fared? 听Julian Hector runs 大象传媒 radio's Natural History Unit. | |
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0752 | Gordon Corera exclusively interviews General Jay Garner, the man in charge of Iraq for those first turbulent weeks after the fall of Saddam. This is his first international interview. | |
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0810 | The Health Secretary, John Reid has details of the legislation - which includes the controversial top-up fees proposal - that will be included in听today's Queens Speech. | |
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0825 | English Heritage says we should care about the appearance of our own houses as much as we mind about cathedrals and palaces. They want us to stop spoiling them with modern bits and pieces like uPVC windows and stone cladding.
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0835 | Anthony Hardy was given three life sentences for the murder of three women. Two of those murders were committed just after he was released from a psychiatric hospital.听Erville Millar is Chief Executive of Camden and Islington Mental Health and Social Care Trust.
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0845 | The French foreign minister, Dominique de Villepin, has said that rather than accept a "second-class constitution" for the European Union.听But what about the French people? Allan Little reports.
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0850 | Ramadan ends this week - and a very bloody month it has been in much of the Muslim world.听But when is a Jihad really a Jihad?听Anjem Choudry is the UK leader of Al Muhajiroun and Dr Haleh Afshar from the University of York. | |
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0855 | What will the Queen's speech today tell us about the ideological direction of the government, and how will the opposition parties respond? Ann McElvoy is political correspondent for the Evening Standard.听Michael White听is political editor of the Guardian. | |
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