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0709: The independent organisation REACH was asked by the government to look at the problems of young black men and it has found that the people members of that group look up to are very often celebrities or rappers - some of whom glamorise gun and gang crime.Ìý
0715: The ban on moving livestock in England and Wales has been eased - five days after it was introduced to try to contain the foot and mouth outbreak. Farmers outside the protection zone in Surrey will be able to send their livestock straight to an abattoir for slaughter.
0717: Business update with Nick Cosgrove.Ìý
0720: ÌýEnvoys from the United States, the European Union and Russia are meeting in London today to launch fresh talks on the fate of Kosovo. The new round of talks has been forced by Russia's decision to block a UN plan to grant Kosovo's 2 million Albanians the independence they're demanding.
0723: The sports news with Garry Richardson
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0746: A committee of MPs has questioned a promise by the government to spend 45-billion pounds refurbishing every secondary school in England. Ministers say it's a "once-in-a-generation opportunity." But the MPs argue that the money might be better spent on teaching.
0738: The paper review.
0741:ÌýFifty years after the pirate radio station Radio Caroline became illegal, we talk to the man who still broadcasts it over the internet.
0746: Thought for the day with Reverend Doctor Alan Billings, Director for Ethics and Religion at Lancaster University.Ìý
0749: The EU Emissions Trading Scheme was designed to set strict carbon reduction targets which would help make firms more energy efficient and so more profitable. But a report today from the Euro sceptic think-tank Open Europe says the scheme which has run since 2005 isn't working.
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0810: It has taken almost a year for a key witness to come forward in the case of Jesse James, 15, who was shot dead as he rode his bike through a park in Manchester's Moss Side. ÌýWe talk to Jesse James's mother and sister, Barbara and Rosemary Reid.
0818: Hitler's record collection contained recordings by Jewish and Russian musicians who were banished from the concert halls of the Third Reich. The revelation came after about a hundred of his gramophone records were discovered in the attic of a former Soviet intelligence officer.
0825: The sports news with Garry Richardson.
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0833: Immigration rules for highly skilled migrant workers wanting to come to the UK to work have been tightened up making it more difficult for them to settle here permanently.
0838: Business update with Nick Cosgrove.Ìý
0841: Pakistan's deputy minister for information has said that his government is discussing whether to introduce a state of emergency to combat growing Islamist militancy.Ìý
0843: ÌýAll this week we've been hearing tales from the river, finding out how farming and tourism are recovering from the floods. Nichola Standbridge continues her journey on the River Stour, which is still badly affected, but not much reported.Ìý
0847: ÌýThe world of baseball in the United States has seen one of its most famous records broken, by San Francisco Giants player Barry Bonds, who hit his 756th home run. The ball went into the crowd, and a huge scrum followed as baseball fans tried to grab it, knowing the potential value of the ball as a piece of memorabilia. There's talk it could fetch more than a million dollars.
0854: Africa Investment not aid is the way to change Africa; a familiar refrain that, but we are joined now by someone who seems determined to turn the idea into a reality; Barbara James has set up what she says is the first independent African private equity fund. Also with us is Patrick Watt, the policy co-ordinator of the development charity Action Aid.
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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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