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07:10 Private equity bosses are today appearing before MP's to defend their business practices and the taxes they pay.
07:15 The RAC warns that if Town planners don't plan properly for parking, shoppers will desert town centres and leave behindÌý"tumbleweed towns".
07:18 We speak to Shadow Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, about Conservative proposals to hand the day-to-day control of the NHS to an independent board.
07:22 The business news with Greg Wood.
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07:25 Why is Britain standing alone in Europe on the issue of a European treaty?
07:28 The sports news with Sonja McLaughlan.
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0730 - 0800
07:30 Why all the fuss about private equity? We speak to Sir Ronald Cohen the father of the private equity business.
07:35 A look at today's papers.
07:40 One of the most famous advertising slogans of the past 50 yearsÌý"Go to work on an egg" is bannedÌýfromÌýa reappearance by current advertisingÌýstandards. We speak toÌýthe authorÌýFay Weldon who invented the slogan.
07:45 Thought for the day with Dom Antony Sutch.
07:50 Has China already overtaken America to become the world's biggest producer of carbon dioxide? What should the rest of the world be doing about it?
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0800 - 0830
08:10 Britain's ambassador to Afghanistan, Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, has warned it could take decades for democracy to take root in the country.
08:15 Our reporter meets the Icelandic singer Bjork ahead of this year'sÌýGlastonbury Festival.
08:25 It's more than four months since the start of America's security "surge" in Iraq. So has the surge made a difference?
08:28 A sports update with Sonja McLaughlan.
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0830 - 0900
08:30 We ask what Gordon Brown and Sir Menzies Campbell have been in private discussions about?
08:35 Just how dangerous is the Middle East now that the Palestinian Authority has split into two power bases? We speak toÌýTerje Roed Larsen formerÌýUN special coordinator in the occupied territories.
08:40 Do birds really sing simply because they like it?
08:45 A business update with Greg Wood.
08:50ÌýIn the second of his reports on Britain's overheated housing market John Andrew asks whether buy-to-let is part of the problem, or the solution?
08:55 There wereÌýmany obituaries of Bernard Manning in the papers yesterdayÌýbut surprisingly one of them was written by Bernard Manning himself. We discuss the rare art of writing your own obituary. |
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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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