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FridayÌý6thÌýJuly 2007
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0710: Kidnappers who seized a three-year-old UK girl in Nigeria have demanded that she be exchanged for her father.

0712: Iraq's Prime Minister has described an amended draft law on how to share the country's oil wealth as the "most important law in Iraq". We discuss the significance of the newÌýlaw.

0717: Police in Western Australia have questioned four men and seized evidence in raids connected with last week's foiled car bomb attacks in BritainÌý

0719: The business news with Greg Wood.

0721: Have we been over-estimating the number of people likely to have heart problems?

0724: The government hopes to engage with with radical young Muslims tempted to turn to violence through the Immams at their mosques. But a 91Èȱ¬ survey suggests that this approach may be more of a challenge than it seems.

0728: The sports news with Garry Richardson.


0730 - 0800

0730: New rules will mean that private security staff at secure training centres may inflict pain on youths who will not behave using physical restraint techniques.

0740: A look at the day's papers.

0742: Beekeepers and experts meet today to discuss the shortfall in funding for bee research in the face of new threats to Britain's bee population.

0745:ÌýDoes anyoneÌýstill want a United States of Europe?

0749: Thought for the Day with Reverend Dr. Giles Fraser.

0752: The Labour party in Wales decides today if it will go into coalition with Plaid Cymru.


0800 - 0830

0810: The floods in the north east of England have been a disaster for thousands of people. The cost will run into the billions. We speak to Vice President of the NFU.

0820: The Tour de France starts in London tomorrow for the first time in its history.

0826: A sports update from Garry Richardson.


0830 - 0900

0833: Is the financial world safer than it's ever been?

0839: A business update with Greg Wood.

0838: The Brazilian government has reached an agreement with a US-based company to cut the price of an important anti-AIDS drug.

0842: Police investigating possible links with the attempted car bomb attacks on London and Glasgow are questioning four more people following raids inÌýtwo hospitals in Western Australia.

0844: South African Deputy Foreign Minister, Aziz Pahad, says it's now a matter of urgency that countries in the region try to help neighbouring Zimbabwe deal with its collapsing economy.

0849: One of the first feature films to be made in post Saddam Iraq was screened last night in Liverpool. 'Ahlaam' follows the lives of three people emerging from the brutality of the Baa'thist regime.

0853: The Bank of England raised rates yesterday yet inflation is falling. Is monetarism coming back into fashion?

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Thought for the Day

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The Blunder Clips

Some of Our Less Memorable Moments
These infamous sound clips have risen from the Today vaults again to haunt our newsreaders and presenters. Enjoy!

Can of what John?
John gets confused over the expression, 'opened a can of worms.'
- 18th March 2005
What is our website and email address John?
John gets confused about all this modern technology and it's David Blunkett Jim!
- 22 December 2004
Who's reading the news Sarah?
Sarah introduces a guest newsreader. And it's catching, asÌýNick Clarke of the World at One demonstrates
- 4/5th October 2004
The boy who likes to say YES!
Sports presenter Steve May is left trying desperately to get his seven year old guest to say something other than yes!
- 23rd September 2004
When the technology failsÌýJohn and Jim have to Ad-Lib...
JimÌýintroduces a veryÌýstrange soundingÌý
'Yesterday in Parliament' package.
Ìý- 23thÌýJuly 2004
Paul Burrell sings opera?
Sarah cues in a very odd sounding Paul Burrell clip.
Ìý- 25th October 2003

Sarah decides it's her turn - and interrupts Allan's discussion
-7 June 2002
Waiting
Garry Richardson waits and waits and waits for Brendan Foster.
The Extended Interview

We don’t always have time to play the whole interview on air. Listen to the extended interview here, exclusive to the Today website.

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"?
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.
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)
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.
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.
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)
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)
Part 1
Part 2
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.
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)
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).
, about the recent increase of religious violence in Nigeria.
(19/05/04)
John Humphrys interviews Prince Hassan of Jordan on the critical situation in Iraq.
(03/05/04).
Jim Naughtie interviews Bob Woodward.ÌýFirst Watergate, now a controversial book into events in the White House pre-Iraq war.
(20/04/04).
Sarah Montague interviews Paul Burrell.
The former royal butler denies betraying Diana, Princess of Wales, insisting his controversial new book was "a loving tribute".
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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