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0709: Three British soldiers have been killed by a roadside bomb in southern Iraq.
0711: Flood water is still rising in parts of England. How are families coping away from their homes?
0715: The business news with Nick Cosgrove
0718: Today the man accused of blowing up an American jumbo jet over Lockerbie in 1988 is to announce that he will appeal again. We speak to the father of one of the victims.
0722: The public is being asked to help the Woodland Trust charity create a map of the UK's ancient woodlands.
0725: The sports news with Rob Nothman
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0730 - 0800
0730: We continue our social mobility series by taking a look those who reach the top of the professions.
0740: A look at the day's papers.
0741: The new PM quoted his school motto outside Number 10 yesterday before going into his office for the first time. We ask you to come up with a motto for the Brown government.
0745: Thought for the Day with Right Reverend James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool.
0750: Angry villagers in Iraq are demanding compensation for damage caused during a US air attack.
0753:ÌýHave farming practices contributed to the problem of flooding? |
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0810: We speak to Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Alistair Darling about what we can expect from Gordon Brown's government.
0822: The South African President Thabo Mbeki has faced international criticism for allegedly avoiding the subject of HIV/Aids in his address to his ANC party conference. We speak to the supreme Court of Appeal judge Edwin Cameron, the most prominent man in South African public life to talk about being HIV positive.
0827: The sports news with Rob Notham.
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0830 - 0900
0833: We talk to John Bolton, President Bush's last UN Ambassador, about Tony Blair's new job working with the Palestinians and the Israelis on behalf of the middle east quartet.
0838: The business update with Nick Cosgrove.
0840: Shadow Home Secretary, David Davis, andÌýAlan Johnson, Education Secretary, talk about why Britain is the least socially mobile of all the world's developed countries.
0853: Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Úpolitical editors past and present discuss the transition of power between Blair and Brown.
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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 Home Secretary wants to deport back to Algeria. Based on secret intelligence and police investigations, the Home 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 Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú 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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