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If listening back to the programme IN FULLÌývia 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 sportÌý/ news bulletins) will continue to be available in the Audio Running Order below. |
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0607 |
The clean up has begun after landslides in central Scotland. Colin Blane. |
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0609 |
There's evidence that abused children who have been taken from their homes by social workers are harmed againÌýonce they return home. Karen Allen. |
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0615 |
The business news with Greg Wood. Audio will be inserted shortly. |
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0632 |
It is as predicted ... more A-level passes. Kim Catcheside. |
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0634 |
The Americans have shot and killed two detainees during a disturbance at Abu Ghraib prison. Nick Childs. |
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0637 |
What caused the disturbanceÌýat Abu Ghraib? Alastair Leithead in Baghdad. |
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0639 |
Things are getting worse at British Airways. Stephen Cape. |
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0642 |
A look at the newspapers in the U.K and Israel. |
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0649 |
Students are rejecting some traditional subjects at A-level. Dr Paul Danielson, the director of Strategy for the Institute of Physics, and Susan Heyday, curriculum manager for the Association of Colleges. |
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0653 |
Are social services allowingÌýabused children to be sent back to unfit parents? Dr Alison Kemp of Cardiff University. |
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0709 |
How is the fighting in the Iraqi city of Najaf affecting the city's ordinary people? Kylie Morris found out. |
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0712 |
Did Muqtada al-Sadr offer to leave the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf? We talked to Dr Mowaffak al Rubaie, Iraq's Security Minister. |
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0717 |
There have been a record numbers of passes again at A-level. Are exams getting easier? Kim Catcheside. |
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The Met policeÌýmay follow British Airways' example of offering a bonus to employees for limiting their sick days. But unions are not happy about it.ÌýNicola Stanbridge. |
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0735 |
Holiday chaos? The GMB and the transport workers union are planning strikes over the bank holiday weekend. Ed Blissett, the GMB's senior officer for aviation, and Mike Street, the director of operations at BA. |
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0742 |
Two Abu Ghraib prison detaineesÌýhave been shot and killed by AmericansÌýduring a disturbance. Lt Colonel Barry Johnson, spokesman for detainee operations on behalf of the Joint Task Force. |
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0746 |
WithÌýsome subjects disappearing from GCSE lists, we've asked a several prominent figures to give us their thoughtsÌýonÌýwhat could replace them.ÌýNovelist Jilly Cooper and the writer Marek Kohn |
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0753 |
At a specially convened Likud meeting this week, a majority rejected Arial Sharon's attempt to form a coalition with the Labor party. Naomi Blumenthal is a Likud member of the Knesse and Ephraim Sneh of the Labor party. |
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0810 |
Schools minister David Miliband denies that A-levels have become easier but Bill Midgley, president of the British Chambers of Commerce, and Delyth Chambers, of the Russell Group and Birmingham University's director of admissions, beg to differ.
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0820 |
Henry Watson Fowler is going to be honoured with an English Heritage blue plaque. The authors Alec Hamilton andÌýTony White. |
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0847 |
The government in Dublin plans to move more than 10,000 staff out of the capital and into towns around the country. But many oppose the idea. James Helm. Sir Michael Lyons is the director of Birmingham's Institute of Local Government Studies |
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0840 |
Greg Wood with a business update. |
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0843 |
The return of theÌýAlphorn. Gavin Henderson, the Artistic Director of Dartington Summer School of Music. Henrietta HarrisonÌýandÌýappalled listener John Wates.
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0847 |
Is it time to look atÌýchanging the criteria for university admission? Phil Willis, the Liberal Democrats' education spokesman. |
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0850 |
What about those who didn't pass their A-levels? National Youth Theatre directorÌýPaul Roseby says it's not all bad. |
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0853 |
How important is academic success? The philosophers A.C Grayling and Alain de Botton. |
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