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The head of the Navy, Admiral Sir Jonathon Band, says theÌýRoyal Navy does not have enough money to do it's job. We are joined by Vice Admiral John McAnally who supports this view. |
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We speak to MP Kate Hoey in whose constituency one of the threeÌýsouth London shootings took place. |
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Things are not looking good for Segolene Royal, the woman who wants to be president of France. Her poll ratings are lacklustre, she's been booed by schoolchildren and her chief economic strategist has walked out on her. |
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The Education Secretary Alan Johnson has suggested that all school children between 11 and 14 should read Dickens and Jane Austen. Is this realistic? We ask Ian McNeilly, director of the National Association for the Teaching of English. |
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Sports News with Garry Richardson. |
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The organisationÌýUnite Against Fascism is holding it's national conference later today. They aim to stop the BNP gaining further seats in the local elections this year. We speak to Sabby Dharlu. |
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Thought for the Day with Martin Palmer - Director of an International Consultancy in World Religions. |
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There is a mandatoryÌýfive year-prison sentence for carrying a gun but it doesn't apply until the offender is 21. Now the police want it lowered to 17 years old. |
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Yesterday in Washington the House of RepresentativesÌývoted against the President's Iraq policy for the first time since the invasion in 2003. Justin Webb reports. |
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Archaeologists have now decided that the Roman amphitheatre in Chester was actually used for full blooded gladiatorial combat. We speak to Dan Garner. |
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Sports Update with Garry Richardson. |
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We speak to Ben Okechukwa whoseÌýdaughter Ruth was killed in 2005 by the same man who had shot a woman at a christening party is south London 2 weeks earlier. |
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Time wasÌýscience fiction was written by men for men but this is changing. We speak to Liz Williams a sci fi novelist and up-and-coming writer in the genre, Gareth Lynn Powell. |
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Astronauts are calling for an international treaty governing what to do in the event an asteroid threatens earth. Our science correspondent Tom Feilden reports. |
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Despite having attracted nearly aÌýmillion and a half signatures the petition to stop road charging has not worked. So what does this sort of situation do to democracy? We ask Steve Richards & Matt Qvortrup. |
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Sheridan Morley has died - critic, biographer, man of the theatre, whose reviews appeared in many newspapers and magazines in a long career and who was for many years a familiar voice on Radio 4. We are joined by Charles Soncer. |
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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.
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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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