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0607 | From today, homeowners face prosecution or fines for failing to cut leylandii trees down to size. | | |
0609 | The Royal College of Paediatrics is worried about the lack of community paediatricians working in child protection. | | |
0615 | Business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0627 | Sports news with Garry Richardson. | | |
0632 | The Dutch vote on the European constitution today. James Naughtie reports from Amsterdam. | | |
0637 | The identity of Deep Throat, the source at the centre of the Watergate scandal, is finally revealed. | | |
0641 | Royal Mail warns that plans to freeze stamp prices over the next five years would ruin service. | | |
0644 | A review of today's papers in both the UK and Amsterdam. | | |
0650 | Head of the UN's World Food Programme, James Morris, will be in talks with President Mugabe today, about the food shortages in Zimbabwe. | | |
0655 | As Bob Geldof calls for a million protesters to march in Edinburgh during the G8 summit, the Leader of Edinburgh City Council, Donald Anderson, discusses the city's ability to cope. | | | |  |
0709 | As polls open in the Dutch referendum, Jim Naughtie talks to Maurice de Hond, the country's top pollster. | | |
0717 | Peter Carr, Chairman of Post Watch, discusses Royal Mail's demands to increase the price of first class stamps. | | |
0720 | Business update with Greg Wood. | | |
0724 | Dr Tony Sewell, senior lecturer at Leeds University's School of Education, and the Labour MP, Dianne Abbott, discuss the persistent problem of under-achievement by black boys in British schools. | | |
0728 | Sports update with Garry Richardson. | | |
0735 | The identity of Deep Throat, whose revelations in the Watergate scandal led to the downfall of president Nixon, is finally known. Henry Porter, Vanity Fair's London Editor, and Stefan Halper, a former Nixon official, discuss the news. | | |
0742 | Homeowners will now face prosecution if their leylandii are not kept under control. Jim Fitzpatrick, the Minister responsible for the new rules, explains why. | | |
0747 | Thought for the Day with the Reverend Joel Edwards, General Director of the Evangelical Alliance. | | |
0751 | Britain's former EU Commissioner, Chris Patten, discusses the implications of the Dutch referendum. | | | | |
0810 | Chairman of PostCom, Nigel Stapleton, and the Chief Executive of Royal Mail, Adam Crozier, dispute the need to cap the rise in stamp prices. | | |
0820 | Joe Haines, Harold Wilson's Press Secretary, on new revelations from the National Archives that Harold Wilson feared Soviet spies were secretly monitoring his conversations during his holidays on the Isles of Scilly. | | |
0826 | Sports update with Garry Richardson. | | |
0831 | At least 20 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a bomb attack at a mosque in Kandahar this morning. | | |
0834 | According to polls, the Dutch are expected to vote against the EU constitution today, just three days after France also rejected the treaty. | | |
0841 | Business update with Greg Wood. | | |
0844 | Dr James Martin, Pulitzer Prize nominated author of The Wired Society, will today make a multi-million pound donation to Oxford University, in the hope that academics will find the answers to...everything. | | |
0849 | Former Conservative MP Jonathan Aitken, who wrote "Nixon: A Life", discusses what was the best kept secret in journalism - the identity of Deep Throat. | | |
0853 | Files released by the National Archives reveal Whitehall's disregard for the welfare of thousands of deprived British children who were sent to Australia after the war. | | |
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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.
| |  | 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) | | | | Edward Stourton interviews Monsignor Charles Burns, a retired head of the Vatican's Secret Archives, in Rome about the funeral of the Pope John Paul II.
(08/04/05)
Part 1
Part 2 | | | | First BBC interview of Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo Bay detainee. Mr Begg speaks to our reporter Zubeida Malik about his ordeal and how he continues to campaign for five Britons still there to be freed. | | | | Justin Webb interviews Walter Cronkite who pays tribute to Dan Rather, a 73 year old news presenter in America whose is retiring after 24 years.
(10/03/05) | | | | 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). | | | | Jim Naughtie interviews the Nigerian High Commissioner in Britain, Dr Christopher Kolade, about the recent increase of religious violence in Nigeria.
(19/05/04) | | | | John Humphrys interviews Prince Hassan of Jordan on the critical situation in Iraq.
(03/05/04). | | | | Jim Naughtie interviews Bob Woodward. First Watergate, now a controversial book into events in the White House pre-Iraq war.
(20/04/04).
| | | | Sarah Montague interviews Paul Burrell.
The former royal butler denies betraying Diana, Princess of Wales, insisting his controversial new book was "a loving tribute".
| | | | General James L. Jones
During his visit to London - the Supreme Commander of Nato talks to James Naughtie about the threat posed to NATO by a stronger EU military force. | | | | Hillary Clinton talks to James Naughtie
Her questions surrounding the White House handling of the Iraq war, plus her years with Bill in that stately building. | | | | Mark Coles interviews Damien Hirst
......about his new exhibition in the small Slovenian capital Ljubljana, including drawings from his teenage years. | | | | James Naughtie interviews Hans Blix:
Hans Blix says allies had motivations other than WMDs for going to war - 6th June 2003. | | | | Michael Jackson complaint
Los Angeles based psychiatrist, Dr Carol Lieberman, tells us why she’s complained to child protection authorities about Michael Jackson.
| | | | Saudi ambassador on war
Zubeida Malik talked to Prince Turki Al Faisal - the new Saudi Ambassador to Britain before the war in Iraq
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