Best of Today: Episodes
Conservative leader David Cameron has said he might consider joining forces with the Liberal Democrats in the event of a hung parliament, and adopt electoral reforms which are heavily opposed by his party. Today presenter Justin Webb gauges West Country attitudes to a coalition government. Tory MP Iain ...
The chaos caused by the volcanic ash cloud has seen stranded Britons zipping around the globe like atomic particles trying to find a way back home. But while some embarked on long and torturous journeys, others took a deep breath, and stayed on holiday until the chaos had averted. Psychologist Ben Williams ...
Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg are set for their second live TV prime ministerial debate. Since the first debate last week, opinion polls have indicated a surge in popularity for Nick Clegg, and put the Lib Dems ahead in the election race. Chris Huhne, the Lib Dem's home affairs spokesman, ...
One of the consequences of conflicts like the Afghan campaign is the focus on servicemen and women who come home with injuries, physical and mental, and there is much greater public awareness of the help they often need. James Naughtie has been hearing how two soldiers fared after leaving the army.
UK airports have re-opened. But were officials right to stop UK flights in the first place? The shadow transport secretary Theresa Villiers has called for an inquiry into the ash crisis, accusing the government of being to slow to reopen UK airspace. Transport Secretary Lord Adonis describes how the ...
The Scottish National Party launches its manifesto in Glasgow with the party leader Alex Salmond, telling his troops that the election offers the greatest opportunity in a generation for Scotland. Mr Salmond outlines his view that only the SNP can protect Scotland's public services.
The latest clutch of opinion polls back up indications that the election campaign has tightened. The three biggest parties are grouped around 30 per cent, with the Conservatives slightly ahead suggesting that the Liberal Democrat "bounce" is still there. The party's elder stateswoman Baroness Williams ...
Security service MI5 secretly bugged five prime ministers and their Cabinets for nearly 15 years, according to reports in the Mail on Sunday. The disclosure follows several denials that this practice ever took place. Investigative journalist Stephen Dorril, and Joe Haines, to prime minister Harold Wilson, ...
Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy has written a poem especially for the Today programme on the continued disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud crippling air travel across Europe.
The government's emergency committee Cobra is set to meet to tackle how to rescue passengers stranded abroad from the ongoing suspension of flights due to a cloud of volcanic ash. Environment correspondent Tom Feilden outlines the danger posed to aeroplanes, and Tim Jeans managing director of Monarch ...
The grounding of flights across much of Europe is starting to be a serious problem causing hundreds of thousands to search for hotel rooms, train tickets or rental cars. Philosopher and author Alain de Botton discusses how in a future world without aeroplanes, children would gather at the feet of old ...
The scream of plane engines is a familiar sound to people living under the Heathrow flight path but all is temporarily quiet near the west London airport. James Naughtie savours the silence as he walks in Richmond, near Kew Gardens, in one of the great Royal Parks and along a lovely stretch of the River Thames.
American pollster Frank Luntz put together a focus group of voters to watch the political exchange. He reflects on the outcome.
Nationalist Scottish and Welsh parties and the UK Independence Party believe last night's discussion would have benefited from their leaders' presence.
Will the political TV debate wake everyone up to pay attention to the election? Broadcaster and journalist Michael Cockerell and Mary Beard of University of Cambridge discuss why the public might not be fully concentrating on the politics.
How far is distrust and disdain affecting the public reaction to the election campaign? David Cowling, the editor of the BBC's political research unit, Labour's Hazel Blears and the Conservative Sir George Young examine the issue of public trust in the political process.
Over the course of the election campaign, the Today programme will be investigating the big trends in British society over the past 13 years, and how the trends have influenced the choices that politicians have made on our behalf. In the first in a series of reports, John Humphrys visited Cardiff on ...
The Liberal Democrats launch their manifesto this morning, aiming to make Britain "fairer" and to present the "tough choices" the country faces. Danny Alexander, the party's manifesto co-ordinator, outlines the party's commitments.
Viewers' complaints about the very first Dr Who programmes are to be released today by the BBC, along with internal memos which reveal that the Doctor's regenerations were modelled on bad LSD trips. Andrew Cartmel, novelist and playwright, and former Doctor Who script editor, reflects on how the Time ...
The Conservatives are due to launch their election manifesto today, expected to contain pledges to reverse most of the rise in National Insurance, cut tax by up to £150 a year for lower-income married couples, and guarantee access to an NHS doctor for 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. Shadow foreign secretary ...