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0709 | The Tories want an inquiry into the way chief police officers were apparently asked to lobby MPs for a new 90 day detention limit. Mike Sergeant has more. | | | |  |
0712 | It's a holiday weekend in France and drastic steps are being taken by the government to try to prevent any rioting. Mike Thomson joins us from Paris. | | |
0718 | The Conservative MP for Salisbury, Robert Key, expresses concerns about the politicisation of the police force. | | |
0724 | Mark D'Arcy looks at events Yesterday in Parliament. | | |
0727 | Rob Nothman with the sports news. | | |
0735 | Should anyone be denied a drug that might save their life? We ask Julian Le Grand of the LSE and Alison Poole from the pressure group, Women Fighting for Herceptin. | | |
0740 | A review of today's papers with Peter Donaldson. | | |
0743 | Leading facial surgeons will be going to schools across the country to show children what might happen to them if they smoke. Raphael Rowe reports. | | |
0746 | Thought for the day with Reverend Dr Giles Fraser, Vicar of Putney. | | |
0750 | The former Paymaster General Geoffrey Robinson on the implications of the terror vote on Tony Blair's standing. | | | | |
0810 | Should we blame Islam or poverty for the anger and resentment that led to the riots in France? We ask the French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy. | | |
0822 | A look at your letters. | | |
0825 | What does an Aga lover do when someone is very rude about them? Cook him a meal, of course. | | |
0828 | A sports update with Rob Nothman. | | |
0834 | We speak to a former chief constable and the defence secretary, John Reid, about the fall-out from the government's disastrous vote on detaining terror suspects for 90 days. | | |
0849 | Move over Bob Dylan and Joan Baez...Burt Bacharach is the new voice of protest in America. | | |
0855 | Can the media be accused of fuelling the violenceby sensationalising it? We hear from Agnes Poirier, London correspondent for Liberation and Colin Randall of the Daily Telegraph. | | |
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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.
| |  | 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. | | | | 50th anniversary of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett.
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. | | | | 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.
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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.
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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".
| | | | 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. | | |
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