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0607
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The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on her way to Moscow for a two-day visit, where she will meet with President Putin. |
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0609 |
A senior advisor to the minister of defence in Iraq was shot dead along with his nephew when gunmen burst into his Baghdad home on Monday. |
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0615 |
Business news with Greg Wood. |
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0626 |
Sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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0631 |
Some newpapers today report that Tory leader Michael Howard has been warned about his election campaign tactics by senior members of his own party. |
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0635 |
An inquiry into the murder of County Armagh solicitor Rosemary Nelson opens today. Our correspondent in Ireland is Kevin Connolly. |
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0638 |
Roman Catholic cardinals will gather in the Sistine chapel for a second day today to seek a successor to Pope John Paul II. |
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0640 |
A review of today's papers with Charlotte Green. |
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0643 |
A look at the international papers with Ray Furlong in Berlin. |
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0646 |
David Wilby looks at the big themes on the election campaign trail. |
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Japan and China are still deciding whether their leaders should meet to talk about the anti-Japanese protests in Shanghai over the past few weeks. |
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0653 |
Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy will today set out his party's policies on cutting NHS waiting times and giving more freedom to frontline health staff. |
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0709 |
Can Britain's most senior police officer realistically expect to work with a Tory Home Secretary following his comments backing Labour's plans for ID cards and terror laws? |
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0715 |
Is the state of our environment a big issue in the election campaign? James Naughtie talks to people in Cumbria. |
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0719 |
Business update with Greg Wood. |
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0724 |
What effect do past atrocities such as the Rape of Nanjing committed by the Japanese still have on Sino-Japanese relations? |
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0728 |
Sports update with Garry Richardson. |
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0730 |
Is the Muslim vote going to be crucial in this election? Zubeida Malik reports. |
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0744 |
Marcus Brigstock, star of Radio 4's ''Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off'' takes a personal look at the election campaign. |
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0746 |
Thought for the day with the Right Reverend James Jones. |
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0749 |
What do we know about the man many tip to be the next pope - the controversial Bavarian cardinal, Joseph Ratzinger? Edward Stourton talks to the Master of the Dominican Order, Father Carlos Azpiroz Costa. |
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0810 |
Is compulsion the only solution to the pensions black hole? Former social security minister Frank Field and Pensions expert Alan Pickering. |
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0821 |
Former BBC presenter Sue MacGregor reads some of the many "election poems" which have been sent in by listeners. |
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0826 |
Sports update with Garry Richardson. |
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0832 |
We talk to leading Tory, Liam Fox on reports of criticism within the his party over the way Michael Howard is running the election campaign and the party's struggle to close polls gap. |
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0836 |
Business update with Greg Wood. |
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0839 |
Liberal Democrat MP Steve Webb outlines his party's stance on pensions. |
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0844 |
Former BBC boss Greg Dyke and Piers Morgan, who edited the Daily Mirror along with Sir Harold Evans, who edited the Times and the Sunday Times discuss the election campaign. |
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0857 |
BBC's political editor Andrew Marr on the elections. |
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