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07:10 Latest news from Alan Johnston's release. We speak to our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen, and Ahmed Yousef, adviser to Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
07:20 Business news with Greg Wood.
07:22 Some small-scale live music events at local venues have had to be cancelled or had unnecessary restrictions placed on them following the introduction of new licensing laws. We speak to Feargal Sharkey from the Live Music Forum.
07:25 Sports news with Alistair Bruce-Ball.
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0730 - 0800
07:30 Gordon Brown will face his first Prime Minister's Question time today. We speak to former Labour leader Lord Neil Kinnock, and former Conservative leader Michael Howard.
07:38 Today's papers.
07:40 Our reporter Huw Williams reports on the feelings of Muslims in Glasgow after the recent terror attack attempts.
07:43 We hear the reaction听of Alan Johnston's family to his release.
07:45 Thought for the Day with the Rt Reverend James Jones, Bishop of Liverpool.
07:50 Dementia is being given too low a priority by health and social services in England according to a report from the National Audit Office.
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0800 - 0830
08:10 We speak to Alan Johnston after his release as he crosses from Gaza into Israel, and to the 大象传媒's Director-General, Mark Thompson.
08:20 Beachy Head near Eastbourne has听for years been听a place听where many people have committed suicide. But volunteers now听patrol the cliffs and the听number of deaths has fallen.听One of those volunteers, Keith Lane,听 speaks to our reporter听Mike Thomson.
08:25 Sports update with Alistair Bruce-Ball.
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听0830 - 0900
08:30 We speak to Joe D. Whitley, former General Counsel of the United States Department of Homeland Security, about the recent terror events in Glasgow and London.
08:40 A British soldier will be laid to rest today in Belgium more than 90 years after he was killed in action. Dominic Hughes reports.
08:45 Business update with Greg Wood.
08:48 Archaeologists have discovered a huge serpent-shaped feature from the early Bronze Age near Hereford.听 Our correspondent Phil Mackie reports.
08:50 It seems in recent days that the government is preferring to use the word "criminal" to describe those who are supporting violence in the name of Islam, instead of talking of "islamists" or "terrorists". We speak to our political correspondent Nick Robinson, Denis MacShane former Foreign Office Minister, and Jason Burke, Senior Foreign Correspondent for The Observer. |
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We don鈥檛 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.听A 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 that听the 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, in听Rome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
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First 大象传媒 interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaks听to our reporter Zubeida Malik about听his ordeal and how he听continues to听campaign 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.听First 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 to听 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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