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The home secretaryÌýJohn ReidÌýhas beenÌýcriticised for prison overcrowding and criminals going free when they should be in jail. |
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0712 |
TheÌýIdentity and Passport Service failed to enforce overseas travel bans imposed on 147 convicted drug traffickers. |
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0714 |
The royal editor of the News of the World, who intercepted phone messages to Prince William, has been sent to jail. |
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0717 |
Yesterday in Parliament. |
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Economically we've had higherÌýinflation and interest rates. So is it time to prepare for a rocky year or two? |
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Sports news with Garry Richardson. |
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Burberry factory workers in South WalesÌýwill protest todayÌýoutside the Burberry shops because they are losing their jobs. |
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0732 |
The paper review. |
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The slogan of the World Economic Forum at Davos is "Committed to improving the state of the world". Hear some practical suggestions for global self-improvement. |
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Thought for the Day with Catherine Pepinster, Editor of The Tablet. |
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The US stock market operatorÌýNasdaq has refused to raise its hostile takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange. |
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In America, theÌýDemocrats plan to challenge President Bush's troop surge in Iraq. |
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Should big businesses being taking serious action against climate change? Are they to blame for global warming? You will be able to hear the long version of this interview on the website on Monday. |
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One activity that has been a sell-out at Davos is the "Dialogue in the Dark": a workshop that occurs in pitch black. |
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0823 |
We speak to David Fine, a poet who was sponsored by the Arts Council to go to Australia and write poems about theÌýAshes series. |
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0830 |
TheÌýsports news with Garry Richardson. |
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The Conservative MP Anne Widdecombe and Professor David Wilson, a criminologist, on prison overcrowding. |
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The British Fashion Council is refusing to join the backlash against super thin models. |
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We speak to Bill and Melinda Gates about their family. the Global Alliance for Vaccination and Immunisation. |
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A new film chronicles the beat poetÌýAllen Ginsberg's tour of Britain 40 years ago. |
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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 91Èȱ¬ Secretary wants to deport back to Algeria. Based on secret intelligence and police investigations, the 91Èȱ¬ 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 91Èȱ¬ 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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