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0630-0700
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0700-0730
0709 Official results of the presidential race in ZimbabweÌýhave not been released, how are the media covering the situation?
0714 91Èȱ¬ Office minister, Tony McNulty, on proposals to extend the detention of terror suspects.
0718 Business with Greg Wood.
0721 An update on the news ofÌýthe death ofÌýtelevision presenter, Mark Speight.
0722 Why Iraqi refugeesÌýin the UK may haveÌýto return toÌýviolent parts of their own country.
0725 Sport with Rob Bonnett.
0730-0800
0731ÌýWe debate whether it's time for the government to get tough with the banks in return for more support from the Bank of England.
0737 We speak to the man who left a 17th Century violin on a train and who hasn't seen it since.
0740 Today's papers.
0743 A new report suggests the government is right to use private firms to move people off benefits.
0746 We ask if biofuels are the answer to the world energy shortage or whether they cause more harm than good?
0754 Thought for the Day with Clifford Longley.
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0800-0830
0810 The Communities Secretary, Hazel Blears,ÌýtellsÌýthe programme that people in Britain are enduring "difficult times."
0822 Our East Africa Correspondent, Adam Mynott reports on the deaths of two British teachers.
0824 Does a poem have to rhyme to be a proper poem? The Queen's English Society thinks it does and we ask them why.
0829 Sport with Rob Bonnett.
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0830-0900
0834 We hear the confessions of a travel writer who admits he cut a few corners when coming up with his guides.
0839 Kevin Connolly looks at the changing nature of Catholicism in the United States of America.
0843 Business with Greg Wood.
0843 What does the Madeleine McCann caseÌýtell us about British journalism and the laws on libel & contempt of court?Ìý
0848 Sir Harrison Birtwistle on how his latest opera was inspired by the myth of the Minotaur.
0854ÌýThe plot to kidnap a Prime Minister, hushed up for more than forty years.
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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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Gil Scott-Heron (04/03/2008)
Life hasn't been easy for the 'god-father of rap', but as US politics gets interesting again, he's making aÌý comeback. |
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(01/02/08)
He used to be Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, and now he's advising presidential candidate Senator Obama. We hear his vision for US Foreign policy.
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(26/11/07)
The legendary Jazz saxophonistÌýtalks about his time in prison, phone calls withÌýJohn Coltrane,Ìý9/11 and the ambitions of a Jazz survivor. |
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(17/11/07)
James Naughtie asks the President of Pakistan when he willÌýlift his country's state of emergency and what he is doing to tackle Islamist Terrorism. |
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