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0700-0730
07:10 The Government is introducing a one-off grant to encourage pregnant women to eat healthily for the sake of their babies.
07:15 With the McCann's now returned to England will Praia de Luz return to normality?
07:20ÌýThe business news withÌý Greg Wood.
07:25 A profile of the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King; the man who may determine whether or not this country slides into recession.
07:28 The sports news with Garry Richardson.
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0730-0800
07:30 America's most senior general in Iraq will appear before a congressional committee today to give his verdict on whether the troop surge has worked.
07:35 Dramatic developments in Pakistan this morning, as the former prime minister Nawaz Sharif arrives in Islamabad.
07:40 A look at today's papers.
07:45 The first dedicated caravan park in the country for people who are still away from their homes after the floods opens on Monday.
07:48 Thought for the day with the Reverend Joel Edwards, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance.
07:52 What level ofÌýpublic sympathy is there for further public sector strike action?Ìý IsÌýstriking stillÌýrelevant to the 21st century workplace?
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0800 - 0830
08:10 There was a dramatic fall in the number of people admitted to hospital with heart attacks in the six months following the ScottishÌýsmoking ban last year. Dr Laurence Gruer, director of public health science at NHS Scotland.
08:15 The former Pakistani prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, has been arrested on charges of money-laundering and corruption after returning to the country to contest forthcoming elections.
08:20 Is there such a thing as "disaster capitalism"?
08:25 A sports update with Garry Richardson.
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0830 - 0900
08:30 As the media scrum following the McCann's descends on Rothley in Leicestershire we speak to ÌýPhilomena McCann, Madeleine's aunt.
08:35 A business update with Greg Wood.
08:40 Najam Sethi, a Pakistani journalist, editor, and media personality, is the editor-in-chief of The Friday Times, a Lahore based political weekly, and The Daily Times newspaper.
08:45 Scientists have developed a new computerised system that can diagnose certain genetic disorders by analysing a child's face. We speak to professor Peter Hammond of University College London.
08:50 A group of senior Christian, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist clergy have gone to the arctic to witness the melting of the ice caps and discuss how religion can help reverse the process.
08:55 In the film of The Great Escape, the prisoners of war dug just three tunnels with makeshift tools – but archeologists at the camp have now discovered that the inmates dug a total of more than 100.
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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 ´óÏó´«Ã½ 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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