Today - 07/07/2008

Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including: Supermarkets, takeaways and newsagents are where children buy most of their food during the day, a new study reveals. Jack Winkler of London Metropolitan University explores what schools can do about kids eating unhealthily outside the school gates. Michael Dobbs of the Washington Post discusses his book One Minute To Midnight, an hour-by-hour account of the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, with Professor Jonathan Haslam of Cambridge University. An aphid is killing leylandii hedges all over the country, acording to a Royal Horticultural Society reports. Mike Cartwright reports on the problem and talks to a hedge owner mourning his loss. Thought for the Day with Clifford Longley. Gordon Brown has urged the UK to stop wasting food, claiming that unnecessary purchases are contributing to price hikes. Environment minister Hilary Benn discusses the Cabinet Office report. The Church of England is to vote on the conditions under which women could be consecrated as bishops. Bishop of Fulham John Broadhurst and Dean of Southwark Colin Slee discuss. A club night for children under the age of five has opened its doors in Manchester. John Thorne reports. A suicide car bomb attack has taken place in central Kabul, outside the Indian embassy. Martin Patience reports. Gordon Brown meeting new Russian President Dmitri Medvedev for the first time at the G8 summit. Could this signify a new rapprochement after a difficult year in Anglo-Russian relations? With former ambassador to Moscow Roderic Braithwaite and former foreign office minister Denis McShane.