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0709: A group of MPs says the government's decision not to call for a ceasefire in Lebanon sooner last summer led to more deaths on both sides, and significantly damaged Britain's international reputation.
0715: Another British solider has been killed in Afghanistan, the sixth to die in action either there or in Iraq this week. We talk to a former Army captain who left the services to write a book, called Desert of Death.
0718: Business update with Nick Cosgrove.
0721: Trial of apartheid-era justice minister Adrian Vlok over the failed murder of an aide of President Thabo Mbeki during white-minority rule
0725: The sports news with Steve May.
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0732: More campaigners against the growth in air travel are expected to arrive at a camp near Heathrow today, ahead of the start of a week-long protest about climate change.
0740: The paper review.
0743: A radical plan to rescue the Dead Sea, which is evaporating away.Ìý
0747: Thought for the day with Rabbi Lionel Blue. Police are questioning six youths today after a man was killed tackling vandals outside his home in Warrington.
0750:Ìý Police are questioning six youths today after a man was killed tackling vandals outside his home in Warrington.
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0810: How can the war be won in Afghanistan? We talk to Defence Secretary, Des Browne.
0815: Police are investigating possible links between biker gangs and the murder of a motorcyclist on the M40 in Warwickshire yesterday.
0823: A little known group of scholars in Southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics 250 years before Newton did.
0826: The sports news with Steve May.
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0830: The Charity, Marie Curie, has published a booklet which gives advice on how best to cope if someone wants to die at home.
0837: Is the Premier league still the best in the world? Or has the amount of money that has been pumped into the Premiership resulted in the beautiful game losing its soul. We speak with Graham Poll and David Davies.
0843: Business update with Nick Cosgrove. Its 60 years ago since Pakistan and India became independent countries. Partition not only affected those living in the Indian subcontinent but also those families who had moved here.
0850: 'Legacy of Ashes', a new book by Tim Weiner, the NY Times' long-standing security reporter, claims to be the first on-the-record history of the CIA.
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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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Baroness Sally Morgan Interview
Tony Blair's former Director of Political and Government Relations, Baroness Sally Morgan has given a rare, interview to Today to mark the Prime Minister's departure.
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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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