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0709 | There's been something of a coup for Customs at Dover by the sound of it - Jake Lynch is our reporter there. | |
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0712 | Why did Alastair Campbell decide to go before the Hutton inquiry is over? Jon Smith is the Political Editor for the Press Association and Chairman of the Parliamentary lobby. | |
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0716 | The Today Programme is being broadcast from London and Torquay. Ed Stourton is at the Riviera Centre and has been talking to Jan Siegada, who's the head of tourism for the English Riviera Tourist Board. | |
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0720 | One of the people killed by that big car bomb in Iraq yesterday was Ayatollah Al-Hakim, one of the most important Shia leaders in Iraq. Dr Sahib Al-Hakaim is his first cousin. | |
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0732 | The exact cause of the power cuts that brought London to a halt on Thursday evening will not be known for several weeks. But what many experts are saying is that the underlying cause is simply not enough money being invested in the system - and it's not just London. Lee Jones lives in Cuddington Cheshire. | |
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0745 | Some slightly unlikely celebrity is heading Torquay's way with a premier just up the road at Paignton this week of a film called Blackball which tells the story of a lawn bowling champion, banned from the game for the sort of bad behaviour more usually associated with volatile tennis stars of the John MacEnroe variety. At the Riviera Centre is the comedian Mel Smith who made the film and Griff Sanders, who was the model for the central character.
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0748 | The future of the fishing industry stirs deep passions in the south west. This year fishermen here are complaining about what they say is an especially vivid illustration of what's wrong with the way the industry is regulated. It seems they are being forced to dump huge quantities of dead fish back in the sea because of the EU quota system. Rick Smith, the Managing Director of Brixham Trawler Agents and the fisheries minister Ben Bradshaw.
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0810 | Yesterday Alastair Campbell announced his resignation - perhaps many people expected he would leave Downing Street once the Hutton Inquiry had finished. The Liberal Democrat party chairman Mark Oaten says the timing was not as innocent as it was portrayed. | |
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0822 | Listener letters - John Humphrys and Ed Stourton look at whether patients should be fined for missing their doctors appointments, London's power cut this week and why is Bombay now being called Mumbai. | |
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0836 | The problems in Iraq continue - a massive car bomb has killed at least 80 people including the Shia Muslim religious leader and another explosion went off near the British army's headquarters. The Armed Forces Minister, Adam Ingram. | |
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0840 | Alison Roper has a review of today's papers. | |
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0845 | The problems with tourism - earlier in the programme we talked about a few of the problems associated with a seaside economy. We discuss this with our audience at the Riviera Centre in Torquay - Adrian Sanders, the MP for Torbay, Tony Wright, the Chief Executive of Visit Britain, and Michael Morpurgo, owner of the City Kids Farm. | |
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0850 | Life after Alastair Campbell - Rory Bremner and Simon Hoggart. | |
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