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0607 | Detectives investigating the murder of the policewoman Sharon Beshenivsky say they're actively seeking three new suspects. | | |
0609 | President Kibaki of Kenya has dismissed his entire cabinet after losing a referendum on a draft constitution. | | |
0615 | The business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0627 | The sports news with Gary Richardson. | | |
0630 | John Hutton is giving his first big speech since taking over David Blunkett's job as Work and Pensions Secretary. Our political correspondent, Norman Smith, tells us more. | | |
0635 | An American special prosecutor is continuing his investigations into which White House official leaked the identity of a CIA official. | | |
0640 | The Foreign Office has acknowledged mistakes in the way the immediate aftermath of last year's Boxing Day tsunami was handled. | | |
0645 | A look at the papers from Britain and China. | | |
0647 | We take a look at the events of Yesterday in Parliament. | | | |  |
0709 | You can now stay out all night drinking if you want to. The new licensing laws came into force at midnight. The Chairman of the Police Federation, Jan Berry, and Nigel Jones, a pub landlord, discuss the changes. | | |
0714 | The husband of the CIA agent whose identity was revealed by the White House, says that Tony Blair was double crossed by those in the Bush administration who wanted to go to war with Iraq regardless of the situation on weapons of mass destruction. | | |
0717 | The business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0719 | We've had warmer winters than usual for the past few years; this year it's going to be colder than usual - much colder. And we are going to feel it. At least that's what the Met Office says. Its chief meterologist is Ewen Mcallum. | | |
0724 | The sports news with Gary Richardson. | | |
0738 | The shadow chancellor, George Osborne, and Ed Balls, former economic adviser to Gordon Brown and now a Labour MP, speak about the economy, which is facing its toughest time since Labour came to power. | | |
0741 | The Roman Snail is threatened with extinction according to the invertebrate conservation charity Buglife. Matt Shardlow is their Conservation director. | | |
0747 | Thought for the day with the novelist and columnist Anne Atkins. | | |
0750 | Joe Wilson is the man at the Centre of the story gripping Washington. He is the husband of the deep cover CIA operative, the exposure of whose name has forced the vice president Dick Cheney's chief of staff Lewis Libby to resign to fight serious criminal charges. | | | | |
0810 | The new Work and Pensions Secretary John Hutton is giving his first big speech in the job later today. He gives his first interview to the programme since taking over from David Blunkett, and speaks about Lord Turner's report into pensions, which will be published next week. | | |
0822 | The Guardian's ornithology columnist, Stephen Moss, and Professor Robin Lane Fox, the Financial Times garden columnist, discuss the effects of a cold winter on the UK's wildlife. | | |
0827 | The sports news with Gary Richardson | | |
0832 | The Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs Spokesman, Sir Menzies Campbell, and Michael Holland, whose wife, daughter, and mother were killed in the tsunami, speak about the Foreign Office's admission that it made mistakes after the Asian tsunami last year. | | |
0838 | The business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0841 | Our correspondent Hillary Andersson talks to Marcus Prior of the World Food Programme, which has called for eleven million pounds to fund its aid operation in the west African state of Niger. | | |
0845 | Germany's new chancellorAngela Merkel, who was finally sworn in two days ago, will be heading to London today to meet Tony Blair. We talk to the London bureau chief of Der Spiegel, Thomas Huetlin, and Mark Leonard, who heads the Centre for European Reform. | | |
0850 | What exactly is the cabinet position of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster? Professor of Medieval History at the University of York, Mark Ormrod, and Anthony Howard, a chronicler of more contemporary political matters, discuss the position recently vacated by John Hutton. | | |
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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.
(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. | | |
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