Tomorrow we are broadcasting from the home of Jane Horrey - her son Ross is a Sapper in the Royal Engineers and is preparing to go back to Afghanistan. We're hoping to invite the Armed Forces Minister back onto the programme so he can answer questions from serving soldiers.
If you're in the armed forces right now, please post a question here or call tomorrow morning from 10 - 0500 909693...
This morning: an exclusive interview with someone living under a control order. Control orders were introduced by the government in anti-terrorism legislation in 2005. They gave ministers the power to place terrorism suspects, who they say can't be prosecuted in the courts, under close supervision. The reason the suspects can't be prosecuted in the courts could be because the evidence against them has been collected by methods that could inlcude bugging - and so are inadmissible - or because using it could reveal intelligence sources.
Last month nine Law Lords ruled it was unfair that three terrorism suspects should be kept in the dark about the allegations against them. The ruling has called into question the future of control orders.
I've just finished recording an interview with a man known as AR - he's been living in Greater Manchester on a control order since April 2008. He's accused of being a senior member of a terrorist organisation called the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group which has links with Al Qaeda and opposes the Gadafi regime in Libya. The conditions of his control order mean he cannot leave his house between 8.30 at night and 8.30 in the morning. He can't use the internet. He can only call essential telephone numbers agreed with the police. He cannot go further than a 3 mile boundary around his house - and all his home visits are restricted to one guest at a time.
We reported today the deaths of two more British soldiers in Afghanistan. Judging by some of your messages there's quite a lot of confusion and anger about the reasons why the British are there, and also, I sense a feeling that people here want to do something to show support for the soldiers.
Ian in Luton asks "What can we do? Is there a way of sending something to our troops? How can we show our support?" Do you feel the same as Ian?
We receive many many emails from listeners every day as you can imagine, but one in particular caught our eye. It was from Jackie Thorn, mum of 23-year-old Paul who's recently lost 17 stone after having a gastric bypass operation (stomach stapling).
Jackie wanted to tell us that rather than Paul being delighted with the weight loss, he's actually very depressed about the way he looks. She told us his body looks like that of a 70 year old man. You'd never know by looking at him - he looks healthy and well - but the amount of excess skin that has been left after losing the weight means he's very insecure.
So we went to meet him at his home in High Wycombe. Here's the film we made....
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Listen to Paul and Jackie on the programme:
This is 5live listener Paul Thorn. Two years ago he weighed 28 stone. In December 2007 the NHS paid for him to have a gastric bypass. He now weighs 11 stone 5. But as you can see he's been left with excess amounts of skin. You can hear his story on the programme tomorrow and also watch a film we've made with him. We'll put the video on the blog tomorrow morning.
Victoria's been speaking to the Aylott family. Roger and Marion Aylott, their son Caspar and his wife Victoria, and their grandchildren Meredith and Celeste, all went on a trip to Wenzhou in south-eastern China, to see where Roger spent time as a child.
When the family arrived in China, they were tested at the airport for swine flu. Because Meredith and Celeste both had temperatures, the whole family have been kept in quarantine on the top floor of a motel.
Victoria Aylott talked to the programme about her family's experience; you can listen to the interview below.
I've just recorded an interview with a British mother who was jailed in Dubai for adultery.
Her name is Marnie Pearce - she denies ever being unfaithful to her then husband.
Marnie now claims her ex-husband is stopping her from seeing her two young boys.
In this exclusive interview, Marnie talks about what prison was like and how she's about to start the fight to get to see her children once more.
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