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0700 - 0730
0709: The PM Gordon Brown will be visiting some of the areas worst affected by flooding today.
0716: Nigeria's president has appealed for the release of the three year old British girl kidnapped in Port Harcourt.
0719: A look at today's papers.
0722: The Tour de France begins in London today - for the first time ever.
0725: "The artist formerly known as prince" is giving away his latest album in a newspaper next week - entirely free.
0709: The sports news with Garry Richardson.
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0730 - 0800
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0730: Have the flooding problems in East Yorkshire been forgotten by the rest of the country?
0740: The paper review.
0746: A new exhibition featuring the paintings of the Davies Sisters - a pair of Welsh spinsters - opens in Cardiff next week.
0749: Thought for the Day with Brian Draper, lecturer at the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity.
0752: We speak to Michael Cox, the legal adviser to the campaigning group Fathers for Justice, who was recently released from jail after being imprisoned because he refused to pay child support.
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0800 - 0830
0810: Concerts are being held all over the world today to draw attention to the challenge of climate change. Britain's Live Earth event begins atÌý1330 at Wembley.
0820: We speak to Hull MP Alan Johnson, also now the secretary of state for health, about the efforts made to to help those effected by the flooding.
0825: This week Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf finally went after pro Taliban militants trying to impose their own brand of Islamic law in the heart of Islamabad.
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0828: The sports news with Garry Richardson.
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0830 - 0900
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0830: The PM Gordon Brown is visiting areas in the north 1000s affected by the floods.
0841: The paper review.
0844: As an author, is it hard to kill off a much loved character? We are joined by two authors who have given us much loved characters - Colin Dexter and Alexander McCall Smith .
0851: Jacques Chirac and Dominique de Villepin may be out of office in France but not it seems out of the limelight - investigators in the so-called Clearstream affair have raided the former prime minister's office.
0853: Are you feeling lucky? It's 7-7-07 and that apparently makes it one of the "luckiest" days of the century.
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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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