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07:10 When treaties are drawn up, what's left out is sometimes as important as what's put in. We look over the text of the proposed European Constitution Treaty and speak to Timothy Kirkhope leader of the British Conservative MEPS.
07:15 The business news with Greg Wood.
07:18 Gordon Brown will officially become Labour's leader on Sunday but how has the offer of a cabinet post for Paddy Ashdown gone down with Labour party members?
07:22 Manchester City has a new buyer. More from Greg Wood.
07:26 Spirits are high at Glastonbury but we look at what effect the sudden surge of economic activity has on the local area.
07:28 The sports news withÌýSteve May.
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07:30 British troops say they have succeeded in pushing the Taleban back from their frontline in southern Afghanistan.
07:40 If the 27 EU leaders in Brussels can agree a constitutionÌýtreaty should there be a referendum on the issue in the UK?
07:42 A look at today's papers.
07:45 Bach's St Matthew Passion isÌýbeing dramatised for the first time in a British opera house.
07:48 Thought for the day with the Chief Rabbi - Sir Jonathan Sacks.
07:52 Our Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen has been talking to both Hamas and Fatah in the West Bank.
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0800 - 0830
08:10 As EU leaders face a second day of tough negotiations in Brussels amid veto threats by the UK and Poland we speak to Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
08:18 New research suggests White British students make up more than three-quarters of low achievers in English schools.
08:23 It's cold, wet, muddy and expensive. As the Today campervan pitches up at Glastonbury, we ask comedian Marcus Brigstocke to explain the festival's appeal.
08:25 A sports update with Steve May.
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0830 - 0900
08:30 When is a ring a religious symbol? A 16 year old girl is bringing a case against her school over the wearing of a silver "purity ring".
08:35 As Tony Blair attends his last European summit as Prime Minister we ask Roger Liddle, former Europe adviser in Downing St, to assess Mr Blair's record.
08:40 A look at the business news with Greg Wood.
08:45 Kidnap and slave labour in illegal brick factories continues to be a problem in China despite a national investigation into the practice of slave labour, we speak to a family in Henan province still searching for their missing son.
08:48 The Environment Agency has uncovered a rare Quaker burial site in Cambridgeshire where sixteen bodies have been found in a previously unmarked grave.
08:50 Following the warning from Sir Ronald Cohen that the gap between rich and poor could eventually lead to rioting on the streets we ask could today's rich learn from Victorian entrepreneurs and philanthropists?
08:55 We hear how tensions in Brussels have led to some surprisingly undiplomatic references to the Second World War. |
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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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