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0607 |
Pre-Christmas New York is still in chaos. |
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0609 |
Schools spend too much time teaching about Henry VIII and Hitler and too little time on other history subjects. |
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0614 |
The business news with Greg Wood. |
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0626 |
The sports news with Steve May. |
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0632 |
Three police forces in England are announcing their merger today. |
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0634 |
Fisheries ministers have reached a deal on fish quotas in Brussels overnight. |
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0637 |
The insurgency in Iraq will last for at least five more years according to Sir Jeremy Greenstock. |
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0645 |
The review of today's papers both from Britain and Washington. |
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0648 |
After months of domestic political uncertainty, Germany is back as the political leader in Europe. |
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0652 |
An international aid agency is warning that it may have to give up on appeals to help parts of drought-plagued Southern Africa because it has only raised a fraction of the money it needs. |
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0655 |
Pax Christi organised a vigil in London last night for Norman Kember who had been kidnapped in Iraq twenty five days ago. |
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0709 |
We talk to the DEFRA minister Jim Knight about the fisheries quotas agreed on in Brussels last night. |
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0715 |
Paul Deneen and Mike Poulter, chairmen of the West Mercia and Staffordshire Police Authorities, talk about the merger of their police forces. |
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0720 |
Business update with Greg Wood. |
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0725 |
The chief executive of the government's qualifications and curriculum watchdog QCA, Ken Boston and Sean Lang from the historical association talk about teaching history at schools. |
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0737 |
Sports update with Steve May. |
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0742 |
Dr Phyllis Starkey MP and Richard Kemp from the Local Government Association discuss new developments near oil storage sites. |
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0747 |
The novelist Frederick Forsyth and Jenny Watson of the Equal Opportunities Commission give us their thoughts on who runs Britain. |
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0752 |
The thought for the day with Reverend Angela Tilby. |
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0755 |
The former commissioner of the MET Lord Stevens and the former archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey discuss how they have been marked by failing their 11 plus exams. |
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0810 |
We talk to the commissioner Sir Ian Blair about the difficult year of the Metropolitan Police. |
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0824 |
Who do our listeners think runs Britain? |
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0837 |
Sports update with Steve May. |
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0835 |
Tony Blair has landed in Basra to visit the British troop in Iraq. |
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0842 |
The Russian ambassador Yury Viktorovich Fedotov tells us what Russia might concentrate on during its upcoming G8 presidency. |
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0847 |
Business update with Greg Wood. |
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0850 |
The Times literary editor Erica Wagner and the novelist Sebastien Faulkes discuss what the most favourite book for book clubs might be. |
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0855 |
Do bloggers have any power? |
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0857 |
Professor of philosophy, Anthony O'Hare and John Bangs, head of Education at the National Union of Teachers, discuss how basic subjects are being taught. |
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