Breakfast

6:19: SHEPPARTON APPLES: Chris Hazelman, mayor of the city of Greater Shepparton, talks about community outrage at the danger of New Zealand fruit imports introducing the disease'fireblight' they fear could wipe out their crops.

6:37: FRENCH TORTURE: Khamal Samari, Amnesty International's spokesman on Algerian affairs, talks about the human rights organisation calling on the French Government to prosecute the perpetrators of war crimes committed by French troops during the Algerian war in the 1950s and 1960s.

6:44: POLITICAL UPDATE: Fran Kelly reports with the latest news from Canberra.

6:48: DUTCH DEATHS: The Netherlands has become the first country in the world to legalise euthanasia, making legal and moral history. Rob Jongkiere, managing director of the Dutch Foundation for Voluntary Euthanasia, speaks about the new legislation.

7:34: POLITICAL UPDATE: Fran Kelly with another update on the political situation from the nation's capital.

7:37: FRAN KELLY: Fran Kelly talks to Con Siacca, Shadow Immigration Minister, about controversy surrounding the Woomera Detention Centre.

7:43: QLD OVERVIEW: Cathy Van Extel reports on further developments in Queensland's electoral rorts crisis. A week after resigning from Cabinet, Deputy Premier Jim Elder will be questioned in court about alleged official misconduct or criminal activity. Meanwhile, the State's youngest backbencher, MP Grant Musgrove, is due to conclude his evidence concerning allegations that he was involved in electoral fraud.

7:48: SNAPPING TURTLE: Rob Porter, manager of the Australian Reptile Park in Gosford, fills us in on the extremely rare Alligator Snapping Turtle who was found lurking in a drain in the inner Sydney suburb of Alexandria. He says there could well be others - possibly a whole family of turtles alive and well beneath the streets of Sydney.

7:55: HALF BRAINS: Joseph Lurito, assistant radiology professor at Indiana University's School of Medicine, about a study they conducted that has found listen with only half their brains.

8:06: BOSTON STRANGLER UPDATE: In an amazing turn of events, the case of the 'Boston Strangler' may be re-opened after doubts about the guilt of the accused Albert DeSalvo were raised. The relatives of DeSalvo and the Strangler's last victim, Mary Sullivan, are pushing authorities to release files from the original investigation which they say was badly botched. They have also called for the bodies of DeSalvo and Sullivan to be exhumed and re-examined. James Starrs, Professor of Law and Forensic Sciences at George Washington University, was asked by the families to collect this forensic evidence, including samples for DNA testing, and he talks to us.

8:17: CURRENCY UNIONS: Michael Straughn, international economist with the Macquarie Bank, talks about the emerging need for currency unions in the Asia Pacific region.

 
8:26: NEW MUSIC: Tim Ritchie reviews "The Gould Variations: The Best of Glenn Gould's Bach Record Company".

MUSIC STING: "Aria from Goldberg Variations BWV 988" from the CD "The Gould Variations: The Best of Glenn Gould's Bach", Sony Classical.