5 live Drive Episodes by date: May 2012
May 2012
This week
Thu 31 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
31/05/2012
A round-up of the day's top news and sport with Peter Allen and Aasmah Mir.
First broadcast: 31 May 2012
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Wed 30 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
30/05/2012
A round-up of the day's top news and sport with Andrew Verity and Aasmah Mir.
First broadcast: 30 May 2012
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Tue 29 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
29/05/2012
Police investigating an arson attack in Derby arrest the parents of the children who died.
First broadcast: 29 May 2012
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Mon 28 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
28/05/2012
Harrowing accounts from Syria after the massacre of more than 100 people.
First broadcast: 28 May 2012
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Last week
Fri 25 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
25/05/2012
A third of the Olympics tickets that went on sale earlier this month are still unsold.
First broadcast: 25 May 2012
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Thu 24 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
24/05/2012
Revised figures show that the recession is deeper than previously thought.
First broadcast: 24 May 2012
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Wed 23 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
23/05/2012
400,000 people with drug and alcohol dependency could lose unemployment benefit.
First broadcast: 23 May 2012
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Tue 22 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
22/05/2012
The IMF praises austerity but warns a plan B may be needed, and Drogba leaves Chelsea.
First broadcast: 22 May 2012
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Mon 21 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
21/05/2012
Report commissioned by Cameron says it should be easier for companies to sack workers.
First broadcast: 21 May 2012
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Over a week ago
Fri 18 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
18/05/2012
Live coverage from Cornwall as the Olympic Flame lands on British soil.
First broadcast: 18 May 2012
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Thu 17 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
17/05/2012
The Olympic flame is now in British hands. Plus, tributes to the singer Donna Summer.
First broadcast: 17 May 2012
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Wed 16 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
16/05/2012
A round-up of the day's news and sport. Kenny Dalglish is sacked as Liverpool manager.
First broadcast: 16 May 2012
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Tue 15 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
15/05/2012
Rebekah Brooks is charged with conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
First broadcast: 15 May 2012
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Mon 14 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
14/05/2012
Shares plummet across Europe as political uncertainty continues in Greece.
First broadcast: 14 May 2012
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Over two weeks ago
Fri 11 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
11/05/2012
The day's news and sport. Five children die in a house fire in Derby.
First broadcast: 11 May 2012
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Thu 10 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
10/05/2012
Thousands of public sector workers take strike action in a row over pensions.
First broadcast: 10 May 2012
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Wed 9 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
09/05/2012
The European Court of Human Rights turns down Abu Qatada's appeal against deportation.
First broadcast: 09 May 2012
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Tue 8 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
08/05/2012
Nine men are found guilty of the sexual exploitation of teenage girls in Rochdale.
First broadcast: 08 May 2012
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Fri 4 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
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Thu 3 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
03/05/2012
The US military release papers seized last year in the raid in which Osama Bin Laden died.
First broadcast: 03 May 2012
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Wed 2 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
02/05/2012
A coroner finds that MI6 employee Gareth Williams was probably "unlawfully killed".
First broadcast: 02 May 2012
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Tue 1 May
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- 16:00 BBC Radio 5 live
01/05/2012
Results of an investigation by MPs into phone-hacking at the News of the World.
First broadcast: 01 May 2012
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Nicky Campbell and Anna Foster with news and sport from the UK and around the world. 

