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07:10 Lord Deedes has died at the age of 94. Our correspondent Torin Douglas reports.
07:12 We speak to former Editor of The Sunday Times, Andrew Neil, and Max Hastings who succeeded Bill Deedes as Editor of the Daily Telegraph.
07:15 Fourteen southern African countries have ended their summit in Zambia with a statement that the problems of Zimbabwe are being exaggerated. Our correspondent Peter Biles reports.
07:18 Today's papers.
07:21 An extract from an interview from 1994 and broadcast last week, is causing embarrassment to the American vice-president Dick Cheney. We speak to the producer, Emmanuel Touhey.
07:24 Our reporter Nils Blythe explains the stock market changes seen this week.
07:26 Is there a vastly better model for the British economy to follow? John Redwood MP encouraged us yesterday to look to Ireland. We speak to Paul Walsh, Professor of International Development at University College Dublin.
07:28 Sports news with Garry Richardson.
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07:30 Our correspondent Torin Douglas, and Charles Moore, one of Lord Deedes' successors as Telegraph Editor, tell us about his life.
07:38 Today's papers.
07:41 The people of Tewkesbury are marching today to complain about the prospect of more building close to flood plains. We speak to the Mayor and Chairman of Tewkesbury town council, Ken Powell.
07:45 Thought for the Day with Canon David Winter.
07:48 We speak to Michael Gordon, Chief Investment Officer of Fidelity International, and Larry Elliot, Economics Editor of The Guardian, about this week's financial turbulence. |
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08:10 The problems of teenage violence and intimidation have been widely discussed this week. Our reporter Tulip Mazumdar has been talking to sixteen and seventeen year-olds in Romford. We also speak to Trevor Averre-Beeson, a headmaster with a long record of turning round difficult schools.
08:19 This weekend marks the centenary of the birth of one of the greatest of all documentary film makers, Humphrey Jennings. We are joined by Humphrey Jennings' daughter, Marie - Lou Leggs and Patrick Russell, senior curator of non-fiction at the British Film Institute.
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08:30 Lord Deedes has died at the age of 94. We speak to Richard Ingrams, Lord Gnome of Private Eye, and by Stephen Robinson, who is writing Lord Deedes' biography.
08:40 Today's papers.
08:42 Parallels are being drawn between the war in Iraq today, and a war in Iraq which took place in the 1920s. A serving American military Intelligence Officer, Major Joel Rayburn, is warning that we should heed the lessons of that war and not leave Iraq too quickly.
08:48 The Labour party has declared John Redwood's detailed plan for the British economy, a move to the right by the Conservatives. But is the label "right-wing" such a political faux pas? We are joined by Tim Yeo, a Conservative and former Cabinet Minister, and Lord Blackwell, Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies and former Head of Policy at number ten, under John Major.
08:55 There is an instinctive admiration for the person who stands up in the face of danger, when others shrink away. We are joined by Dr Peter Marsh, Psychologist and Sociologist at the Social Issues Research Centre, and A C Grayling, Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. |
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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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