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0607 |
The government wants to change the admissions policy atÌýuniversities so that more students from poorer backgrounds can get in. |
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0609 |
President Mubarak of Egypt is said to be well-ahead in the counting in the country's first presidential election. |
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0615 |
TheÌýbusiness news with Rebecca Marston. |
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0626 |
Sports new with Steve May. |
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0632 |
TheÌýChancellor is launching his scheme to provide more funds for immunisation of children in the developing world. |
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0635 |
President Bush has declared that there is to beÌýa national day of prayer and remembrance for the victims of hurricane Katrina. |
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0638 |
The government is being accused of having tried to play down a research suggesting thatÌýinequalities between rich and poor have increased sinceÌýLabour came to power. |
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0641 |
The review of today's papers from Britain and the Ukraine. |
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0647 |
How is the so calledÌý"bra war" influencing Southern European textile producing countries like Italy? |
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0650 |
Prof Wayne Hall of Queensland University talks about the experience of flexible opening hours in pubs and bars in Australia. |
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0653 |
Dr David Martill from the University of Portsmouth has discovered that the prehistoric flying reptiles Pterosaurs were as big as a modern fighter plane. |
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0709 |
The higher education minister Bill Rammell looks at whether students should apply to university only after they have received their exam results. |
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0716 |
Dr Madsen Pirie of the Adam Smith Institute and Peter Hardstaff of the World Development Movement criticise the chancellor's international Finance Facility which would provide money for immunisation in the developing world. |
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0720 |
Business update with Rebecca Marston. |
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0724 |
The public health minister Caroline Flint and Dr Richard Mitchell of the medical school at Edinburgh University talk about the accusations that the government has tried to play down the report on health inequalities. |
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0729 |
Sports update with Steve May. |
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0734 |
There is an increasing concern about the treatment of those who were killed during the hurricane Katrina, as bodies are left lying on the streets or floating in floodwater. |
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0746 |
How well has the British overseas territory of Montserrat been able to recover from a series of volcanic eruptions that took place ten years ago? |
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0750 |
TheÌýthought for the day with the reverend Roy Jenkins, a Baptist minister in Cardiff. |
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0755 |
Claude Hankes-Drielsma, one of the first people to look at the oil for food programme problem, talks about the Volcker report. |
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0810 |
We talk to the Chancellor Gordon Brown about today's meeting of the EU finance ministers. |
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0822 |
The charity War Child is releasing another album called "Help: A day in the life" with a Sudanese rap artist Emmanuel Jal. |
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0826 |
Sports update with Steve May. |
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0832 |
The political rows over theÌýslow response to Hurricane Katrina are continuing in America. |
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0836 |
President Clinton's former labour secretary, Robert Reich and Pippa Malmgren, an economic adviser to President Bush,Ìýlook at how the situation on the gulf coast has affected the US political landscape. |
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0842 |
Business update with Rebecca Marston. |
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0845 |
The journalist and commentator Amir Taheri and Dr Azam Tamimi, the director of the Institute for Islamic Political Thought in London, discuss how important the Egyptian presidential election is for the country's democracy. |
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0854 |
Tilly Smith will be given an honour from the marine society today for saving British tourists including her family during the tsunami disaster in Phuket. |
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0856 |
Former director general of the World Health organisation and former Norwegian Prime Minister, Gro Harlem Brundtland, talks abut the finance ministers' meeting in Manchester today. |
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