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0709: The results of tests which will show whether there's been a second outbreak of foot and mouth disease will be known later today. Last night a herd of cattle on a farm in Surrey were ordered to be slaughtered after they showed signs of having the disease.
0718: The Department of Health will publish its verdict today on whether NHS dentistry has improved since it was overhauled last year.
0723: Business update with Nick Cosgrove.
0725: The sports news with Garry Richardson.
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0732:ÌýThe National Audit Office estimate that it cost the taxpayer 3 billion pounds for the 2001 outbreak of foot and mouth and that the private sector lost 5 billion. We investigate the possible economic consequences this time.
0739: The paper review.
0742: A charity working with veterans says that one in ten homeless people used to be in the armed forces. That figure has come down from more than twenty per cent ten years ago.
0746: Thought for the day with Reverend Roy Jenkins, Baptist Minister in Cardiff.Ìý
0749: Companies which make formula milk for babies are being accused by charities of using "devious" tactics to bypass a ban on advertising the product to new mothers - who, the government says, would be better off breastfeeding.
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0810: We talk to Laurence Matthew, the farmer who owns the land where up to 100 cattle were slaughtered last night.
0818: Fifty years ago parliament approved a plan to flood a Welsh villiage and create a reservoir. And that was despite the fact that every Welsh MP, except for one, opposed the plan. A new play about the episode opens tonight at the Clwyd Theatre.
0823: Edinburgh arts impresario Richard DeMarco's achievements and memories are being marked with a special exhibition at this years 60th Edinburgh Festival.
0827: The sports news with Garry Richardson.
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0833: As rivers return to summer levels we have returned to see the devastation left in the wake of the floods. This morning our reporter Nicola Stanbridge is in Pershore near Worcester looking at the double impact of flooding and foot and mouth for farmers:
0839: Today is the deadline set by Britain for Israel to open a criminal investigation into the death of a British cameraman, James Miller. We talk to Anne Waddingon, James Miller's sister.
0842: Business update with Nick Cosgrove.
0845: Britain's biggest surfing tournament starts in Newquay today and is expected to attract 200,000 visitors.
0849: Officials in the Chinese capital, Beijing, have launched a campaign to root out English mis-spellings in public places. Menu Police have been deployed to crack down on Chinglish and a telephone translation service has been set up to help confused diners.
0853: We discuss the issue of vaccination for livestock with Jonathan Long, Livestock Editor of Farmers Weekly and Patrick Holden of the Soil Association.
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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 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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