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0700 - 0730
0709 The result of the Scottish election is inseparable from the problems and failings of the election that made the SNP. Our political correspondent Iain Watson reports.
0712 The Scottish Papers with James Naughtie.
0715 Wales has no majority government either... We speak to John Andrew.
0717 Today's Papers.
0718 We speak to Mark Hutchings about the Welsh elections.
0720 A 91Èȱ¬ investigation has found that criminal gangs have obtained millions of pounds in student loans by enrolling hundreds of "ghost students" onto university courses. We speak to Matthew Chapman.
0725 Sports News with Steve May.
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0730 Madeleine McCann is still missing. On holiday in Portugal her parents still wait for news of their three year old daughter, who's thought to have been abducted. Danny Wood reports.
0735 Today's Papers.
0737 In today's letter from the book "War and Peas - intimate letters from the Falklands War", news has emerged about the number of casualties aboard the destroyer HMS Sheffield, hit, and sunk, by an Argentine missile.
0741 Angelika Kluk was raped and murdered by a convicted sex offender, Peter Tobin. Like so many others from small towns and villages in Poland who come here to live, she was particularly vulnerable. Sanchia Berg reports.
0745 Thought for the Day with Reverend Bob Marshall, an Anglican Priest.
0750 The Electoral Commission has begun a review of the voting system in Scotland after the chaos of Thursday. More than 100,000 ballot papers were spoiled.What exactly went wrong? Iain Watson reports from Edinburgh. |
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0800 - 0830
0810 Who can govern in Scotland? The SNP has 47 seats in the new Scottish Parliament and Labour 46 - so it's clear who, but turning that victory into power is more difficult. We examine the options with our Scotland political editor Brian Taylor, the Liberal Democrat MSP Iain Smith, and Nicola Sturgeon, deputy leader of the SNP.
0820 Thinking of getting a nice new fence for the garden this summer? You might have to think again.There's such a shortage of the right kind of wood it's even being reported that some people are stealing them! Nicola Stanbridge reports.
0825 Sports Update with Steve May.Ìý
0830 - 0900
0830 The local elections have been bad for Labour and now on the back of this the Conservative chairman Francis Maude says his party has made a breakthrough it can build on in the lead-up to the general election.
0833 Today's Papers.
0835 Campaigning has ended ahead of the final round of the French presidential election, with the Socialist Segolene Royal and the right-wing candidate Nicolas Sarkozy exchanging insults. Caroline Wyatt reports.
0845 Kenya Airways has lost contact with a plane that took off from Cameroon early this morning carrying more than 100 passengers.
0850 The 91Èȱ¬ programme 'Who Do You Think You Are?' proved we are interested in our family's history. We speak to Tony Robinson and Dan Snow who presents his own history programmes on television and is involved in a big history "event" at Earls Court that opens today.
0855 Jim Naughtie surveys the political landscape from Edinburgh following the week's electoral convulsion. |
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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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