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0709: The gravity of the floods seems ever-increasing, the army has been called in to help. Our Correspondents are at some of the worst hit areas and Frasier Pithy is director of operations at Severn Trust Water.
0716: Barclays has received the offer of ten billion pounds from the Chinese government.
0718: Business news from Greg Wood.
0721: There's excitement in Alabama as actor Fred Thompson sits second in the republican opinion polls without having campaigned, raised money or even declared.
0725: Sports news from Steve May.
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0732: The government wants 3million new homes by 2020, but despite the current climate there are no plans to prevent building on flood plains. Yvette Cooper is housing minister.
0738: A look at today's papers.
0741: What kind of measures can be taken to limit flood damage? Jean Venables is from the institute of Civil Engineers and former chair of the Thames Region Flood Defence Committee.
0747: Thought for the Day with Canon David Winter.
0750: Turkey's most significant election in decades took place yesterday and the officially secular country voted in the Islamist AK party. Fadi Hakura is a specialist in Turkish affairs.
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0810: 43,000 people are now without power and 150,000 homes are without water supplies- reports from around the country. Sir John Harman is chairman of the Environment Agency; were they too slow to act?
0820: America has long portrayed itself as the doyenne of democracy, but documents show the in the depression of 1930's nearly lead to a coup.
0825: Sports news with Steve May.
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0830: Business news with Greg Wood.
0833: With a weeks warning surely something could have been done to limit the flood damage. Hilary Benn is Environment Secretary.
0835: Faking it.
0840: Will the election of the Islamist AK party effect Turkey's European ambitions?Ìý
0845: As caravan's take their place on the palace lawns Lembit Opik waxes lyrical in their favour.
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0849: Oxford looks set to flood next, our reporter Angus Stickler has spent the night at an temporary refuge centre. |
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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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Baroness Sally Morgan Interview
Tony Blair's former Director of Political and Government Relations, Baroness Sally Morgan has given a rare, interview to Today to mark the Prime Minister's departure.
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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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