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0700-0730
07:10 Depression does greater damage to long term health than many physical conditions like angina, arthritis or diabete.
07:15 We discuss a report from the US which claims the Iraqi interior ministry is dysfunctional and riddled with sectarianism and corruption.
07:20 Greater impact is made by the extra money that specialist schools attract than by the specialist courses they offer a new study suggests.
07:25 Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb and the phonograph, also wrote at least one surrealistic, modern, beat-style prose poem.
07:28Ìý The sports news with Rob Nothman.
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0730-0800
07:30 Johann Elliasch who lent £2.5million pounds to the Conservative party is expected to resign from the party to become an adviser to Gordon Brown.
07:35 We speak to the executive director of Greenpeace, John Sauven, about why the organisation has pulled out of the latest public consultation on nuclear power.
07:40 A look at today's papers.
07:45Ìý The business news with Greg Wood.
07:50 Thought for the day with Reverend Angela Tilby.
07:55 We hear from some of America's most eminent economists about the uncertainty in the world markets and former Chancellor, Lord Lamont.
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0800 - 0830
08:10 Kate McCann, mother of missing four-year-old Madeleine, will be declared a suspect today by Portuguese police.
08:15 Investigators establishing the cause of the foot and mouth outbreak in Surrey have found five separate breaches of bio-security all of them the responsibility of the government site. We speak to the President of the National Farmers Union and the shadow environment secretary.
08:20 Depression is a more disabling condition than angina, arthritis, asthma and diabetes, World Health Organization research shows. We speak to Professor Louis Appleby.
08:25Ìý A sports update with Rob Nothman.
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0830 - 0900
08:30 Are we about to see a revolution in foreign policy? The new Foreign Secretary David Miliband has been posing some distinctly different questions about how the office might do business.
08:40 A new biography claims that Winston Churchill's sense of destiny was shaped by his american mother.
08:45Ìý A business update with Greg Wood.
08:50 We speak to former UN High Commissioner for Human rights, Mary Robinson, who is just back from refugee camps in Chad, coping with the crisis in Darfur.
08:55 We speak to a close family friend of the McCann's about the news this morning that Kate McCann will be named by police as a suspect. |
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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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