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Choose an audio clipÌýyou would like to listen to from the most recent programme.
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0700-0730
0710ÌýTim O'Toole, managing director of Transport for London, gives us the latest on industrial action on the Underground.
0714 A senior appeal court judge Lord Justice Sedley is calling for the national DNA database to be expanded to include everyone living here and everyone visiting the country.
0718 The business news with Greg Wood.
0722 Steve Fossett, the record breaker famous for flying solo around the world, has disappeared.
0728 The European Parliament may vote today to ask airport authorities to review their rules on the carrying of liquids on planes.
0730 A look at the sports news with Garry Richardson
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0730-0800
0730 A conference in Cambridge today looks at why the British are good at coming up with ideas but weak at turning them into money-makers.
0735Ìý A look at today's papers.
0740 New warnings that taking your dog for a walk could damage the environment.
0745 Thought for the day with Dr Indarjit Singh , Director of the Network of Sikh organisations
0750 The SNP minority administration in Edinburgh publishes its first full legislative programme today.
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0800 - 0830
0810 We speak to Senior Appeal Court Judge, Lord Justice Sedley, about his call for the whole population and every UK visitor to be added to the national DNA database.
0815 The British Library is searching for Hidden Treasures: manuscripts lurking in the recesses of public libraries across the country.
0820 A sports update from Garry Richardson.
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0830 - 0900
0830 Where is David Cameron really taking the conservatives and will the voters follow?
0835 The business update with Greg Wood.
0840ÌýWe look at the impact of checkpoints and movement restrictions on the daily lives of Palestinians.
0845 An update on the impact of industrial action on the London Underground.
0850 There are reports this morning that Chinese hackers, some believed to be from the People's Liberation Army, have been attacking computer networks of British government departments.
0855 The European project will crumble unless it is brought closer to the people and the power of the unelected is curbed says Derk-Jan Eppink, a senior official in the European commission. |
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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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