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0700 - 0730
0709: Former Pakistani president Benazir Bhutto has said she expects more attacks.
0712: Today's biggest news won't happen until 8pm when England will face South Africa in defence of the World Cup.
0715: The Inquest into the Death of Princess Diana has been going on for 3 weeks, Royal correspondent Peter Hunt is trying to make sense of it all.
0718: The American airforce is in trouble after flying live nuclear warheads across the US.
0722: A look at today's papers.
0725: Sports news with Steve May. |
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0730 - 0800
0732: Despite the violent reception to Benazir Bhutto's return, does a more democratic future for Pakistan still stand a chance? Imran Khan and Daily Telegraph correspondent Ahmed Rashid.
0737: James Naughtie is in Beijing.
0741: Letters that reveal what the English rugby team of 1891 thought of their South African opponents.
0747: Thought for the Day with Rev Rob Marshall.
0750: Sarah Montague asked Jose Manuel Barroso how different is the British version of the European treaty? |
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0800 - 0830
0810:听 Yesterday听5 boys aged between 12 - 14 were听sentenced to听one years detention for manslaughter. Should they have been given harsher sentences or are they听too young to be detained at all?
0820: It seems the oceans aren't soaking up anything like as much of the CO2 as they used to. Professor Andrew Watson from the University of East Anglia.
0825: It's "Apple Day" on Sunday, fetes and festivals are planned up and down the country to celebrate this bumper year for Apple Trees.
0830: Sports news with Steve May.
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0830 - 0900
0832: James Naughtie reports from the former home of the听Dalai Lama; Potala Palace in Tibet.
0840: Dr Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal has claimed that the guidelines to on safe alcohol consumption were "plucked from the air" some 20 years ago.
0845: A look at today's papers.
0850: We ask Anthony Beevor and William Shawcross is there is any weight to Tony Blair's recent comparisons between Islamic extremism today and the rise of fascism in the 1920s and 30s.
0855: James Naughtie's final thoughts from China. |
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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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