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0710: The leader of Liverpool City Council, wants the Home Secretary to call a "summit" meeting of representatives from all our big cities to talk about gun crime.
0713: The British Medical Journal say we have the worst outcomes in western Europe for stroke victims.
0716: A paedophile who admitted 24 counts of assault has been given a community rehabilitation order. Michael Porter, a Jehovah's Witnesses, preyed on children in Somerset over 14 years.
0719: Business update with Greg Wood.
0722: A group of Labour MPs are trying to persuade the Prime Minister to renegotiate听parts of the EU treaty agreed by his predecessor in Brussels in June.
0725: The sports news with Steve May.
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0730: The Radio 4 programme Face the Facts has carried out an investigation that shows the number of parents claiming their children have been removed from them unjustly, has reached record levels.
0740: The paper review.
0743: The oak trees of Sherwood Forest are under attack by moths.
0747: Thought for the day with Martin Palmer, Director of an International Consultancy in World Religions.
0750: There are more reports in this morning's papers suggesting that Britain's withdrawal from Basra Palace is imminent.
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0810: We speak to former Home Secretary, David Blunkett, and local Croxteth vicar, David Leslie, about gun crime.
0722: Our colleague Jim Naughtie made an interesting observation on Monday's programme - it was inspired by a discussion with the writer Andrew Greig about the novelist James Buchan.
0727: The sports news with Steve May.
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0830: After a turbulent year in the television industry, executives meeting at the Edinburgh television festival discuss what can be done to restore trust.
0836: An American family's last son is returning from service in Iraq after his two brothers were killed in action.
0840: Business update with Greg Wood.
0844: We talk to Norwegian Jazz musician, Bugge Wesseltoft, who is dedicating a song from his new album to a young mother in Congo, who was abducted, raped and forced to kill her own baby.
0850: Two academics have been working through a huge amount of material left behind by Ralph Waldo Ellison, looking for the shape of that elusive second novel.听In June 2008听it will be published.
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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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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.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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