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0709ÌýBritain is seeing a major decline in house prices. We speak to Jeremy Leaf of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
0714ÌýSir Terry Leahy, Tesco's chief executive on more record profits for the supermarket giant.
0719 Justin Webb in Washington reports on Barack Obama's remarks about small town America.
0722 Has the policy of isolating Hamas backfired? Our Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen reports.
0727 Sport with Arlo White.
0730-0800
0735 The row over inheritance tax is resurfacing. We speak to Brendan Barber, General SecretaryÌýof theÌýTUC andÌýShadow Treasury Minister, David Gauke.Ìý
0742 Today's papers.
0745ÌýWe report from New York where restaurant chains are resisting a move which would force them to reveal on their menus how fattening their dishes are.
0749 Thought for the Day with Akhandadhi Das.
0752 Jonny Dymond reports from Rome on Silvio Berlusconi's big comeback in the Italian election.. |
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0800-0830
0810ÌýAs banks prepare to meet Gordon Brown, Alex Potter, banking analyst at Collins Stewart and Danny Corrigan of ICAP, discuss what steps can be taken to ease the effect of the credit crisis.
0818 Our correspondent in Manchester, Fiona Trott, reports on eleven people arrested this morning over the murder of schoolboy Rhys Jones.
0821ÌýSome rather interesting recordings of Evelyn Waugh are released by the British Library today. We speak to his grandson, Alexander Waugh.
0827 Sport with Arlo White.
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0830-0900
0832 Amnesty International says China executed more people than any other country last year. But are the Chinese in fact making more progress in this area than they’re given credit for?
0838 Business with Greg Wood.
0841 Why has a general strike been called by Zimbabwe's opposition party?
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0846 We ask the director general of the Council of Mortgage Lenders what he wants the government to do and whether lenders are, in fact, responsible for the mess.
0850ÌýSilvio Berlusconi is prime minister of Italy once again. What does it mean? We speak to Analisa Piras, a London correspondentÌýfor Italian news magazine, L'espresso.
0854 Do major terror attacks turn out to be historic turning points or are they more often spectacular but short-lived?
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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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