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0709 More than half a million people have had to leave their homes as fires in California spread out of control.Ìý
0713 Two prisons in EnglandÌýhave been converted to house only foreign nationals.
0718 Iraq's government says it will shut down the offices of the PKK and not allow the group to operate in Iraq. What do ordinary Kurds in Iraq think of the current crisis?
0721 The business news.
0723 Commonwealth soldiers in the British army who were medically discharged from the service face being removed from the UK.
0728 The sports news.
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0730 Could a brutal killing in south Armagh cause more political instability in Northern Ireland?
0741 We speak to artist Stanley Donwood, who is credited with some of the most striking album art of the last fifteen years.
0745 Thought for the day with Reverend Joel Edwards.
0750ÌýAs talks take place aboutÌýIran's nuclear programme, what lessons can be learnt from the events leading up to the invasion of Iraq? |
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0810Ìý Half a million people have been displaced in California due to wildfires,Ìýand the figure could be doubled by the end of the day.Ìý
0816 Two prisons in England are now solely occupied by foreign prisoners. Does it makes sense to house foreigners separately?
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0830 The health minister Dawn Primarolo appears before a parliamentary committee today to talk about abortion.Ìý
0839 China is preparing to launchÌýa lunar orbiter today, not long after the launch of the American space shuttle Discovery. Are we on the verge of a new space race?
0843 The business update.
0847 It's fifty years since the first crossing of the Antarctic andÌý recently publishedÌýlettersÌýhave produce revelations about theÌýteam members.
0852 A new map of Britain says The North begins in Gloucester, the Midlands don't exist and Cheshire is in the South!
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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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