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0600 - 0630
0630 - 0700
Today's briefing hour: catch up onÌýthe day'sÌýnews, sport , business and Yesterday in Parliament.
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0700 - 0730
0709. Professor John Curtice of Strathclyde University and Conservative's George Osborne talk about the problems with the new voting systems used in the local elections.
0716. Head teacher of Riverside Community School in North Shields, Dame Mary Macdonald and Mick Brookes of the National Association of Head Teachers discuss the implications of teachers being falsely accused by their students of malicious behaviour.
0721. Business update with Greg Wood.
0722. Voters going to the polls in Scotland were confused by the ballot papers and computers that did not work.
0726. Sports update with Steve May.
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0730 - 0800
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0733. Local election results update. We talk to the Liberal Democrat leader Menzies Campbell. 0743. Professor John Curtice of Strathclyde University comments on the election results.
0744. Climate change and record temperatures are changing our wildlife, according to the Woodland Trust
0747. The thought for the day with Canon David Winter.
0750. Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr Rajendra Pachauri talks about how much difference new technologies coul make to the environment. |
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0800 - 0830
0810. We speak to professor John Curtice of Strathclyde University, Ken Ritchie from the Electoral Reform Society, Labour's Hazel Blears and our political editor Nick Robinson about the local election results.
0823. DJ Marc Riley and Martin Fry from the group ABC discuss the top ten worst lyrics.
0832. Sports update with Steve May.
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0830 - 0900
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0835. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Falklands War.
0841. Business update with Greg Wood.
0845. Police in Portugal are investigating claims that a three year old British girl has been abducted.
0847. We talk to the deputy leader of the SNP, Nicola Sturgeon, about the election results in Scotland.
0850. Republicans are trying to decide who their candidate should be in the 2008 US presidential election.
0853. Professor John Curtice of Strathclyde University, journalist Andrew Neil and the Guardian columnist Jackie Ashley have a final look at the local election results. |
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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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