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Choose an audio clipÌýyou would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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 0610 |
Condoleezza Rice has announced that the UN Convention Against Torture will apply to American interrogators in the US and now alsoÌýoverseas. |
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 0614 |
The law lords will rule today on whether intelligence obtained throughÌýtorture is admissible in this country. |
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 0620 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Rebecca Marston. |
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 0628 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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 0631 |
The kidnappers in Iraq have extended their deadline by two days and said they will kill theirÌýhostages if their demands are not met. |
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 0635 |
David Cameron is expected to organise hisÌýShadow Cabinet today. |
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 0640 |
Tony Blair is meeting six European leaders today to settle the row over the EU budget. |
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 0642 |
TheÌýRed Cross has a new emblem, a red crystal, which paves the way for Israel to join the movement after nearly six decades of exclusion. |
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 0644 |
TheÌýpaper reviews from Britain and Cairo. |
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 0650 |
A look at the events of Yesterday In Parliament. |
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 0655 |
MPs will be told today how many animals are being used for laboratory tests. |
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 0709 |
Norman Kember'sÌýkidnappers have threatened to kill him unless Iraqi prisoners are freed. |
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 0715 |
We speak to Iztok Mirosi, the Ambassador of Slovenia about Tony Blair'sÌýEU budget proposals that would involve big cuts in handouts to smaller newly joined countries such as Slovenia. |
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 0720 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Rebecca Marston. |
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 0723 |
David Cameron promised to tackle the lack ofÌýwomen MPsÌýfrom his party. What can he do? |
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 0725 |
We heard last night thatÌýLady Thatcher had been admitted to hospital after complaining of feeling faint. |
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 0727 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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 0731 |
How will theÌýLiberal Democrats react to the new leader of the Conservatives? We speak to Charles Kennedy. |
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 0740 |
Hear the Today Programme report from 25 years ago when John Lennon was shot outside his apartment building in Manhattan. |
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 0745 |
Thought For The Day with Anne Atkins, Novelist and Columnist. |
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 0750 |
The United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator, Jan Egeland, has appealed for intervention from the international community to tackle the humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe. |
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 0810 |
We speak toÌýWilliam Hague, who is nowÌýShadow Foreign Secretary, andÌýask him why he has returned to the front bench. |
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 0825 |
Hear a Jim Naughtie report about a young British conductor who made a public debut yesterday at the opening of the opera season at La Scala. |
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 0830 |
John Lennon was shot 25 years ago today. Here on Radio 4 various fans and friends will be rememberingÌýhim in two-minute interviews played between programmes. Hear one recorded by Libby Purves. |
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 0832 |
TheÌýbusiness update with Rebecca Marston. |
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 0838 |
We talk to Ahmed Hashim, a Professor of Military Stategy at the US Naval War College, about the kidnapped peace activist Norman Kember. |
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 0841 |
Arnold Schwarzenegger has to decide today whether to save the life of a notorious convicted killer. HeÌýis under considerable pressure fromÌýdeath penalty opponents and fellow Hollywood stars. |
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 0850 |
Will being an Old Etonian be a curse or a blessing for David Cameron? Two former pupils, Lord Onslow and Jacob Rees Mogg, tell us their views. |
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