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0709 We hear from passengers at Heathrow's Terminal 5 after yesterdays chaos.
0712 Government forces and the Mehdi army are still fighting one another in Basra.
0715 What the world thinks about China's crackdown in Tibet and what China thinks about it are two very different things. James Reynolds reports.
0720 Business with Greg Wood.
0723 Was the Speaker in the House of Commons right to say the matter of MPs expenses could not be discussed in Parliament because it was before a court?
0725 Sport with Garry Richardson.
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0730 It's the eve of the elections in Zimbabwe but is the election going to be free and fair enough to produce an honest verdict?
0735 Today's papers.
0740听Demand from China for scrap metal has led to thieves stripping the lead off church roofs. Bob Walker reports.
0745 Thought for the Day with Catherine Pepinster.
0750听Two American academics have published a study suggesting that the euro may replace the dollar as the world's largest reserve currency within ten to fifteen years. |
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0809 Charlotte Green gets the giggles. And here's some she had earlier.听
0810听The internecine struggle between the government and the forces of the radical cleric Moqtada al Sadr has led some observers to suggest that Iraq could be flirting with civil war.
0820听It is clear already this morning that yesterday's problems at Heathrow Terminal Five weren't an isolated event.
0825 Sport with Garry Richardson. |
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0830 A government website says Prime Minister al Maliki has extended the deadline for militia to hand over weapons by 10 days.
0835 Do Michelin stars carry the same gravitas they use to?
0840 Business with Greg Wood.
0845 A film released next week called Awake plays on the dreadful phenomenon known as Anaesthetic Awareness. We speak to Meryl Davies who has experienced this.
0850 Kenya's biggest share offer gets underway on Friday with the sale of ten billion shares from the mobile phone giant Safaricom.
0853 We hear the oldest known recording of a human voice; a woman singing Clair de Lune in 1860.
0855听More on听Heathrow. |
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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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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 a听 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 saxophonist听talks about his time in prison, phone calls with听John Coltrane,听9/11 and the ambitions of a Jazz survivor. |
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(17/11/07)
James Naughtie asks the President of Pakistan when he will听lift his country's state of emergency and what he is doing to tackle Islamist Terrorism. |
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