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0700-0730
07:10 Are allergies in this country reaching epidemic proportions?
07:15 We ask what should the international community be doing as armed troops are deployed on the streets of Burma to prevent further demonstrations.
07:18 The business news with Greg Wood.
07:22 Police in Devon claim there is an "unmet need" in the criminal justice system for more alcoholism services.
07:25 We speak to the McCann's spokesman about possible sightings of Madeleine in Morocco and a photo in today's papers.
07:28 The sports news with Garry Richardson.
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0730-0800
07:30 We speak to Ed Balls, Secretary of State for Schools, about plans to split the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority.
07:35Ìý A look at today's papers.
07:40 A third of the population doesn't use the internet - we ask if it's vital to modern life to be connected to the web?
07:45 Thought for the day with Sir Jonathan Sacks.
07:50 Allergies are reaching epidemic proportions in this country with too few doctors trained as specialists to cope. Dr Bill Egners is a consultant immunologist in Sheffield.
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0800-0830
08:10 Events are moving fast in Rangoon - how will the Burmese regime try to get demonstrators off the streets? We speak toÌýAung Naing OO who was involved in the 1988 uprising.
08:15 For the past 100 days Belgium has had no government unable to reach a coalition now the talk is the possible dissolution of the 180 year old country.
08:28ÌýA sports update with Garry Richardson.
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0830-0900
08:30 We speak to our political editor Nick Robinson at the Labour Party conference.
08:35 We look at a new manual for going to war which looks at whether there can there be morality in armed conflict?
08:40 A business update from Greg Wood.
08:45 More than 4,000 people on the networking site Facebook have joined a group dedicated to an 87-year-old who has lived in a tent in Wolverhampton for more than 30 years.
08:50 To what extent are Burma's current problems rooted in the country's colonial history?
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08:55 The Literary Editor of 'The Herald' discusses her new book which expounds the testimonies of ordinary Scottish people, and their often extraordinary lives.
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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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