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0700-0730
07:10 We speak to Stephen Bell, Chief Economist at the hedge fund GLC about the US Dollar'sÌýrecord low.
07:15 Terminal 5 opens at Heathrow this morning. We speak to former Planning Minister Labour MP Nick Raynsford.
07:20 Willie Walsh, the Chief Executive of British Airways, speaks to our business correspondent Greg Wood.
07:22 Should British troop numbersÌýin southern Iraq be cut? We asked Major General Patrick Cordingley whoÌýhas just returned from Basra.
07:28 The latest sports news with Steve May.
0730-0800
07:30ÌýÌýShadow Chancellor, George Osborne, talks to us about his party's economic alternatives.
07:35 A look at today's papers.
07:40 We speak to a senior doctor who believes raising alcohol taxes will do nothing to curb alcohol induced injuries.
07:43ÌýThe National Trust is looking at the way countryside can be used to provide public good.
07:45 Today's Thought for the DayÌýis given by BuddhistÌýVishvapani.
07:50Ìý Brendan Duddy was anÌýordinary man who tried to solve the Northern Ireland conflict by acting as a secret go between. He gives his story for the first time.
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0800-0830
08:10 We look at the controversy surrounding airport expansion in this country withProfessor Peter Hall, of the Town and Country Planning Association, and John Cridland, of the CBI.
08:20 The Royal Society of Chemistry appeals for your help in a search for a very special medal.
08:25 The latest sports news with Steve May.
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0830-0900
08:30 The battle over a referendum on the new European treaty is moving to the House of Lords. We speak to Conservative Peer Lord Strathclyde.
08:35 Business correspondent Greg WoodÌýgives aÌýbusiness update.
08:40 Our sports editor Mihir Bose reflects on how the parameters of cricket have changed.
08:45 Tony Blair arrives in Tokyo today to secure a global deal on climate change as part ofÌýhis new international lobbying effort.
08:47 Writer and human rights campaigner Ariel Dorfman speaks about a new film of his life.
08:50 Our reporter talks to Dominique Moisi of the French Institute for International Relations in Paris about the countdown to the war in Iraq five years ago.
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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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Gil Scott-Heron (04/03/2008)
Life hasn't been easy for the 'god-father of rap', but as US politics gets interesting again, he's making aÌý comeback. |
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(01/02/08)
He used to be Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, and now he's advising presidential candidate Senator Obama. We hear his vision for US Foreign policy.
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(26/11/07)
The legendary Jazz saxophonistÌýtalks about his time in prison, phone calls withÌýJohn Coltrane,Ìý9/11 and the ambitions of a Jazz survivor. |
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(17/11/07)
James Naughtie asks the President of Pakistan when he willÌýlift his country's state of emergency and what he is doing to tackle Islamist Terrorism. |
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