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0700-0730
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07:10 A newÌýOsama Bin Laden video has been discovered, the first for three years.
07:15 The Italian town of Modena is the scene today of the funeral of Luciano Pavarotti, who died on Thursday.
07:18 The paper review.
07:20 Hear our report from the Democratic Republic of Congo where aid workers are struggling to cope with a surge of people fleeing recent fighting.
07:24 It's the Last Night of the Proms tonight, and the last night for the director of the 91Èȱ¬ Proms, who's off to run the Barbican Centre in London.
07:28 The sports news with Rob Nothman.
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0730-0800
07:30 Has the British media been fair in it's coverage of Madeleine McCann's disappearance?
07:35 It's nearly a month since there's been proper running water in the city of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, there are now serious worries about diseases like cholera.
07:40 The paper review.
07:45 The quirky amusement park in New York known as Coney Island is going to have a dramatic face-lift.
07:50 Thought for the Day with Canon David Winter.
07:55 There's been no let-up in the troubles hitting banks and the money markets. Yesterday, there was the first decline in the number of jobs in the US for four years. Who is to blame?
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0800 - 0830
08:10 The Liverpool estates are now known for their gang rivalry and criminal youths, yet not long ago these estates were good places to live. Ex Today presenter Winifred Robinson grew up in Norris Green. She tells us how it has changed.
08:15 Eight Russian bombers were escorted out of British airspace yesterday by RAF Eurofighter typhoons.
08:20 Sir Stanley Spencer is undergoingÌýa revival. The Spencer Gallery in Cookham has been modernised and is reopening today. Today reporter Nicola Stanbridge visits Cookham.
08:25 The sports news with Rob Nothman.
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0830 - 0900
08:30 Kate and Gerry McCann are named as suspects in the case of the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine. We speak to Gerry McCann's brother John McCann.
08:35 The paper review.
08:40 The BMA says that cage fighting should be banned.
08:45 It's International Literacy Day so we ask - What's your favourite word? AS ByattÌýtells us hers.
08:50 When the English football team play today the two young boys who were with Rhys Jones when he was shot will walk onto the field. Is this a moving moment or an unbearable stunt?
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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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