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If listening back to the programme IN FULL via the orange link on the top right-hand side of this page ('iPlayer'), you may notice some sections of audio are missing. This is to meet our copyright obligations during the Olympic Games. However all individual items (excluding some Olympic material plus sport / news bulletins) will continue to be available in the Audio Running Order below. |
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 0709 |
Despite continuing concerns over the possibility of drug taking, the Olympic Games have begun in colourful style in Athens. Tim Franks. |
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The truce in Najaf seems to be holding: Alastair Leithead in Baghdad updates us. |
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 0717 |
A review of this morning's papers. |
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 0722 |
The French shrine town of Lourdes receives a visit from the Pope to mark the 100th anniversary of the declaration of the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception: David Willey reports. |
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 0725 |
What do record high oil prices really mean for the British motorist? Hear from the Petrol Retailers' Association. |
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 0732 |
Hurricane Charley 1: the hurricane has slammed into the coast of Florida. Hear the latest from the ground. |
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 0738 |
Hurricane Charley 2: hear directly from the state's hurricane monitoring centre. |
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 0744 |
We speak with one of the British veterans who received the Legion D'Honneur this week for their operation to liberate southern France in 1944. |
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Soldiers from Rwanda are being flown into Sudan this morning to help disperse aid: the World Health Organisation updates us. |
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 0810 |
What to do with the asylum seekers who were being held in a detention centre that was set fire to? The UN's refugee agency, the UNHCR, tell us of alternatives to incarceration. |
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 0819 |
A look at your letters. |
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 0831 |
With more clashes overnight in Iraq, we hear from a spokesman for the radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr, plus British Major Ian Clooney in Basra.
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 0839 |
Are bassoonists becoming an endangered species because the instrument's too expensive and too 'un-cool'? |
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 0845 |
Alexander McCall Smith set to unleash a new female detective, at the Edinburgh International Book Festival: Rebecca Jones reports. |
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 0850 |
Pet obituaries ... coming to a newspaper near you soon. |
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 0855 |
As the Olympics gets underway, the question's being asked: 'Is the fight against drugs in sport a battle we should resign ourselves to losing?' |
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