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The Bush Administration has ruled out any deal involving the release ofÌý5 Iranians arrested in Iraq in exchange for the release of the 15 British marines and sailors being heldÌýin Teheran |
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0712 |
The Jamaican police have confirmed to the Â鶹Éç that they asked Scotland Yard for help in the investigation of Bob Woolmer's death. |
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The Zimbabwe opposition has described as a "tragedy" the decision of the ZANU-PF party to re-nominate President Mugabe, who's 83, for another term. |
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0718 |
A look at today's papers |
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0725 |
The Prime Minister says he's "angry"at the scuppering of the government's plan for a super-casino in Manchester.Ìý Iain Watson reports. |
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0730 |
The sports news with Steve May. |
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0735 |
Treasury documents reveal that the Chancellor was warned before the pension changes in his first budget ten years ago that there would be a probable shortfall in the funding of company pension schemes of at least £75 billion and that many of the losers would be among the poorest members of society. |
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The Department of Health now regards the term "institutionally racist"as unhelpful and believes that "the solutions lie in the hands of individuals, not institutions". Barnie Choudhury reports |
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The paper review. |
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0743 |
The last of the examination boards in England still offering ancient history at A level maybe about to drop it |
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Thought for the Day with Reverend Dr Giles Fraser, Vicar of Putney. |
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Latest figures suggest that more than sixty percent of released prisoners re-offend within two years. Can the cycle be broken? Norman Smith reports from Wisconsin where they seem to have a scheme to do just that. |
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There is no sign of an end to the diplomatic crisis between London and Teheran over the 15 marines and sailors being held by iran. |
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Yesterday we discussed Sir Peter Blake's famous cover for the Beatles' Sergeant Pepper album.ÌýÌýIs desingning album covers a dying art?Ìý We talk to Storm Thorgerson, who designed some of the best known covers of the 1970s, he took us to the Dark Side of the Moon with Pink Floyd and the FT's pop critic Ludo Hunter-Tilney. |
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0830 |
TheÌýsports news with Steve May. |
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0835 |
We talk to theÌýChief Secretary to the Treasury Ed Balls andÌýthe Conservative spokesman on pensions Philip Hammond about the documents obtained by the Times under the Freedom of Information Act about pensions |
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Nicola Stanbridge has been discussingÌýRobert Mugabe's position with Zambia's first President Kenneth Kaunda and we talk to Moeletsi Mbeki who is a South African's businessman who worked as a journalist in Zimbabwe in the 1980s, he is also of course President Mbeki's brother. |
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0845 |
A final look at today's papers |
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In a book to be published next Saturday,Ìýcrime writer DavidÌýHewson reveals how with the aid of a ten pound internet site, a friendly pub landlord and some investigative skulduggery he and a couple of friends managed to stop the plan to build a billion pound state of the art science park and thousands of new homes in the village of Wye in East Kent |
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Pope BenedictÌýsaid "hell, about which little gets said today, exists and is eternal for those who shut their hearts to his love". We talk to William Oddie, former editor of the Catholic Herald and Catherine Pepinster, editor of the weekly Catholic magazine The Tablet. |
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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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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)
Part 1
Part 2 |
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First Â鶹Éç 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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General James L. Jones
During his visit toÌý 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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