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The city of Amara in southern Iraq is the focus of new fighting, which might force British troops to re-enter, two months after pulling out. |
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Camera surveillance systems are to be set up across England, in order to target drivers for moving travel offences. We Speak to Sheila Grainger is Campaigns Manager for the RAC. |
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Legislation that would make it illegal to stop women breast-feeding in some public places was debated in the Commons today. |
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Although Clare Short has stepped down from the Labour benches, she remains as an independent Labour MP. Is that right? Or should she leave the Commons all together? |
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Sports News with Garry Richardson. |
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We speak to Sandy Berger, National Security Adviser in the Clinton White House about the claim that the North Korean crisis is down to the failure of Bill clinton's policy in the 90s. |
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The Tower of London is at risk of being placed on the United Nation's Heritage in Danger list. |
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The Orionid meteor shower is expected to be visible tonight. We speak to Greg Smye-Rumsbey is planetarium lecturer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. |
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Thought for the Day with The Reverend Rob Marshall. |
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We speak to Ruth Hall from the group Women Against Rape and Chris Hehir a Criminal Barrister about the issue of anonymity in rape cases. |
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We speak to our correspondent, John Simpson, about the current situation in Iraq. |
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It's exactly forty years since the Aberfan disaster, which killed 144 people, most of them schoolchildren. John Humphrys reflects on what he witnessed that day. |
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We read some of the letters you have sent in this week. |
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Sports Update with Garry Richardson. |
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We speak to David Holmes, Chief Executive from the British Association for Adoption and Fostering, about the issue of inter-country adoption. |
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We ask Mark Sands and David Quantick, about the new trend of giving away wall charts in newspapers. |
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A group of childcare experts is arguing today - in a letter to the Daily Telegraph - that inadequate nurseries can damage children. We speak to Su Palmer, a former headteacher. |
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When the Aberfan disaster happened, John Humphrys was one of the first journalists on the scene - he's been talking to some of today's residents of Aberfan, 40 years on. |
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We don’t always have time to play the whole interview on air. Listen to the extended interview here, exclusive to the Today website.
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Don De Lillo Interview
The American writer Don de Lillo who wrote Underworld and is one of the biggest figures in modern American literature - has become a classic. A Penguin classic.ÌýA great accolade, but usually one reserved for the dead. John interviewed him and asked what it's like to be thought of as a "classic"?
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Mouloud Sihali Interview
Mouloud Sihali from Algeria, North Africa, is one of the suspected terrorists thatÌýthe ±«Óãtv Secretary wants to deport back to Algeria. Based on secret intelligence and police investigations, the ±«Óãtv Secretary has deemed Sihali a threat to the Nation's security. Last year Mouloud Sihali was found not guilty of being a part of a so called released Ricin plot. |
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The nominations for the Oscars were announced yesterday, and The Constant Gardener is tipped for a place on the shortlist. It stars Ralph Fiennes who picked up an Evening Standard Film Award this week for his role in the film. Polly Billington spoke him and to the author, John le Carre, about the film and its chances at the Oscars. (31/01/06) |
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Edward Stourton interviews the President of Mexico, Vincente Fox, and Tom Shannon, the United States Under Secretary of State with responsibility for the Americas, on the Summit of the Americas in Argentina and the prospect of a free trade agreement for the region.
President Vincente Fox.
Under Secretary of State Tom Shannon. |
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The uncut interview with Sir Peter Hall, the first director to stage the play in 1955, with the last surviving member of the original main cast, Timothy Bateson who played 'lucky', and playwright Ronald Harwood. |
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Jim Naughtie speaks to the Archbishop of Kaduna, Josiah Idowu Fearon, about the Anglican Church in Africa and tensions between Christians and Muslims. (25/05/05) |
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Edward Stourton interviews Monsignor Charles Burns, a retired head of the Vatican's Secret Archives, inÌýRome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
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First ±«Óãtv interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaksÌýto our reporter Zubeida Malik aboutÌýhis ordeal and how heÌýcontinues toÌýcampaign for five Britons still there to be freed. |
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Justin Webb interviews Walter Cronkite who pays tribute to Dan Rather, a 73 year old news presenter in America who is retiring after 24 years.
(10/03/05) |
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Tony Blair speaks to Jim at the British Embassy in Washington, following his controversial Rose Garden press conference with Bush. The Iraq war, the Middle East and the first hints of an EU constitution referendum u-turn. (17/04/04). |
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, about the recent increase of religious violence in Nigeria.
(19/05/04) |
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John Humphrys interviews Prince Hassan of Jordan on the critical situation in Iraq.
(03/05/04). |
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Jim Naughtie interviews Bob Woodward.ÌýFirst Watergate, now a controversial book into events in the White House pre-Iraq war.
(20/04/04).
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Sarah Montague interviews Paul Burrell.
The former royal butler denies betraying Diana, Princess of Wales, insisting his controversial new book was "a loving tribute".
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General James L. Jones
During his visit toÌý London - the Supreme Commander of Nato talks to James Naughtie about the threat posed to NATO by a stronger EU military force. |
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