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0709ÌýYves Saint Laurent has died at the age of 71. Lisa Armstrong, the fashion editor of the Times, looks back over his career.
0712 Business with Adam Shaw.
0714 Gordon Brown's plans for the detention of terror suspects has been criticised. We speak to Liberty's director, Shami Chakrabarti.
0720 Robert Mugabe has arrived in Rome for a world food summit. Hear from Conservative MEP Neil Parish.
0723 Sports news with Kevin Howells.
0730-0800
0730ÌýA major new series begins looking at the care of the elderly in the UK. Reporter Jon Manel examines some of the issues.
0738ÌýRavi Shankar is giving a concert at the Barbican this week supported by the London Symphony Orchestra. His tour is called Farewell to Europe and, now in his late 80s, it is expected to be the last time he plays here.
0743 Today's papers.
0746 Archaeologists working in northern France suspect they have found the mass grave of hundreds of British and Australian WWI troops, who were killed during a disastrous campaign in 1916.
0749 Thought for the Day with the Reverend Dr Alan Billings.
0752ÌýThe Chairman of the Â鶹Éç Trust tells us whether he thinks Jonathan Ross is worth his £18 million pound pay deal. |
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0810ÌýWe ask the Secretary of State for Children Ed Balls why he thinks new laws can help curb teenage drinking.
0822ÌýOne of the world's largest private equity houses is to take a stake of about 20% in Bradford & Bingley. The move by a US investor is to boost the finances of the UK's major buy-to-let mortgage lender.
0825 Sport with Kevin Howells.
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0831 Lorenzo Odone, the man whose life inspired the film Lorenzo's Oil, has died. His half-sister, the writer Christina Odone, remembers him.
0837 We examine what happens when famous writers fall outÌýand start to feud in public
0842 Business with Adam Shaw.
0845 Our correspondent, Matt Prodger, has spent the past week in Burma and found growing anger with the regime:
0850ÌýCan humour help us understand Communism?ÌýA book called Hammer & Tickle by Ben Lewis explains how Communism could have been a laugh after all.
0854ÌýCould artificial trees be the answer to global warming? |
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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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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 aÌý 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 saxophonistÌýtalks about his time in prison, phone calls withÌýJohn Coltrane,Ìý9/11 and the ambitions of a Jazz survivor. |
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(17/11/07)
James Naughtie asks the President of Pakistan when he willÌýlift his country's state of emergency and what he is doing to tackle Islamist Terrorism. |
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