30/03/2009
With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis.
Environment analyst Roger Harrabin examines calls for the G20 summit to focus investment on the global climate problem.
Jill McGivering reports from Lahore on reports of gunmen attacking a police training academy in Pakistan.
Lord Smith discusses claims that 25 million people in England and Wales are already living in areas where there is less water available per person than in Spain or Morocco.
Diver Iain Easingwood and history writer Christy Campbell discuss the discovery of a German U-boat off the coast of Berwickshire.
Baroness Prosser discusses claims that the UK has the most unequal maternity leave arrangements in Europe.
Sanchia Berg reports on architect Lucy Bennett, one of the Today programme's 'Faces of Recession', who has managed to find work at a small practice on public sector projects.
Analyst Stephen Pope discusses if more money can solve the serious problems facing the US car industry.
The Dunfermline Building Society is the latest financial institution to ask for government help. Business editor Robert Peston gives details of the deal and Chairman of the Society Jim Faulds discusses why ministers have rejected the ideas to keeping the firm running in its current form.
The parents of murdered teenager Jimmy Mizen, Barry and Margaret, discuss why they believe the UK is losing its feeling for 'civility, fair play, fairness and safety' and becoming a place of anger, selfishness and fear.
Actor Dominic West and TV critic Andrew Billen discuss the success of television drama The Wire.
Peter Riddell of the Times and political editor Nick Robinson discuss the future of expenses for MPs.
Mike Thomson investigates claims of sabotage by the Kennedy administration on British exports in Cuba.
Film composer and conductor Debbie Wiseman discusses the life of French composer Maurice Jarre.
Alastair Leithead reports on the UN-backed trial of a former Khmer Rouge leader in Cambodia, Kaing Guek Eav - known as Comrade Duch - which opened in Phnom Penh last month.
Ray Mallon, chairman of the Centre for Social Justice, and Richard Garside, director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies at Kings College, discuss if the feelings of 'anger, selfishness and fear' are increasing.
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