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 0708 |
Heavy fighting in Iraq following a ceasefire breakdown: Alastair Leithead report from Baghdad. |
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 0712 |
The Sudanese Government say they've reached a deal with the United Nations. Our correspondent in neighbouring Chad is Peter Biles. |
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 0717 |
Imran Khan, head of Pakistan's Movement for Justice voices disquiet at recent events in the country. |
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 0721 |
A gender war at the Metropolitan Police? Jan Berry, of the Police Federation and Suzzette Davenport, from the British Association of Women Police. |
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 0733 |
Concern that children with special educational needs may be worse off in mainstream education. Liberal Democrat Phil Willis tells us his experience. |
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 0743 |
A look at today's papers. |
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 0746 |
Some of the world's last remaining mountain gorillas - in the Virunga National Park on the borders of Rwanda, Uganda and Congo - are under threat. |
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 0752 |
Will John Kerry's privileged background make it harder to win over working class voters? Professor Coleen Graffy from Republicans Abroad debates Jonathan Freedland, the Guardian columnist. |
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 0810 |
There have been clashes between coalition forces and fighters loyal to Shiite religious leader Moqtada al-Sadr in several cities across Iraq. Ahmad Al-Rikaby, founder of Radio Dijla in Baghdad, and Major Ian Clooney who speaks for the MOD in South East Iraq. |
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 0819 |
Our weekly look at your letters. |
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 0822 |
Does The Queen have a few things to teach us about thrift? Marguerite Patten who advised the Ministry of Food during WW2 and Professor Felipe Fernandez Armesto of Queen Marys, London discuss. |
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 0830 |
After the GMC's ruling on paediatrician Professor David Southall, we hear from Justine Durkin, whose daughters were wrongly placed in foster care also Dr Richard Wilson, trustee for the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths and George Osborne, who was Sally Clarke's MP until she moved away after being cleared and released. |
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 0848 |
It's forty years to the day since the children's classic 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' was first published. With the help of his widow Felicity, we look back at Roald Dahl's struggle to write the book. |
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 0857 |
Dr Mary Ramsey of the Health Protection Agency on why the government is scrapping a vaccine containing mercury given to babies when they are eight weeks old. |
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