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0700 - 0730
0709: The latest from Merseyside where Police are questioning a boy arrested in connection with the murder of Rhys Jones.
0714: The Pentagon has promised a thorough investigation of the killing of three British soldiers by an American plane in Afghanistan.
0718: A look at the day's papers.
0721: Jeremy Paxman has criticised the ±«Óãtv and the wider TV industry in hisÌýlecture at the Edinburgh television festival.
0723: Archaeologists in Russia claim to have solved the mystery surrounding the execution of the Russian royal family in 1918.
0725: The sports news with Steve May.
0730 - 0800
0732: The government is to publish official standards for the schemes that offer to offset your carbon emissions. But will such regulation help or hinder many useful schemes?
0748: An update on the raging forest fires in southern Greece.
0740: A look at the day's papers.
0743: Has autumn arrived early this year?
0746: Thought for the Day with Catherine Pepinster - Editor of the Tablet.
0749: We speak to the Shadow Health Secretary about the planned reorganisation of neo-natal, maternity and paediatric services in Manchester and the creation of an NHS Supercentre.
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0800 - 0830
0810: We speak to Jeremy Paxman following the lecture he delivered last night at the Edinburgh television festival in which he heavily criticised the ±«Óãtv.
0820: "Prog Rocker" Kevin Ayers who inspired figures like William Burroughs and David Bowie is back in the limelight after 15 years.Ìý
0829: A sports update from Steve May.
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0830 - 0900
0833: Following the killing of 11 year-old Rhys Jones this week, we speak to John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, about wider questions of social breakdown.
0838: A look at the day's papers.
0841: Is Britain faced with a choice between Europe and America?
0847: Our Washington correspondent speaks to some of those directly affected by the problem of illegal immigration in the United States.
0853: Following President Bush's comparison between withdrawing from Vietnam and withdrawing from Iraq, we discuss the withdrawal from Saigon from a military perspective.
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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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