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0709 | Hundreds of people have been stranded in the west country. They even had to call in the RAF. Squadron leader Dave Webster. | | | |  |
0712 | Should Lord Archer be allowed to resume his political career? Sean Curran is our political correspondent. | | |
0714 | This is the first weekend under the new licensing laws...so was there drunken mayhem across the land last night. Andrew Hosken spent the night in Guildford, Surrey. | | |
0720 | The Commonwealth summit in Malta and the issue of Uganda has been pushed up the agenda following the arrest of the main opposition leader. The Ugandan Deputy High Commissioner Justinian Kateera joins us. | | |
0726 | Mary Rhodes with the sports news. | | |
0733 | Did George Bush really tell Tony Blair he wanted to bomb the offices of Al Jazeera? We talk to the general manager of Al Jazeera, Wadah Khanfar. | | |
0739 | A review of today's papers with Chris Aldridge. | | |
0742 | We talk to the award winning chef who plans to open a new restaurant...in Highdown Prison. | | |
0745 | At least five people have been killed after an earthquake struck central China. We join our correspondent in Shanghai, Quentin Sommerville. | | |
0747 | Thought for the Day with Reverend Dr Giles Fraser, Vicar of Putney. | | |
0750 | Ever looked in the mirror and thought you could do with a little nip and tuck? If you work for the NHS, a new scheme in Oxford could give you 10% off the cosmetic surgery of your choosing. | | | | |
0810 | Why do governments set up commissions and then refuse to act on their recommendations? Lord Lipsey is a veteran of commissions that have reported and been virtually ignored and Lord Sutherland is Chair of the Royal Commission on Long Term Care for the Elderly. | | |
0816 | A look at your letters. | | |
0819 | One of football legend George Best's last broadcast interviews. | | |
0823 | More sport from Mary Rhodes. | | |
0829 | The government wants to curb the right to some jury trials, mostly in cases involving very complex frauds. We talk to the Attorney General Lord Goldsmith and the president of the Law Society Kevin Martin. | | |
0841 | British industry could face gas shortages this winter. But the situation looks very different if you go to the Gulf state of Qatar and it seems Britain will be a key customer. Our Business Correspondent Nils Blythe reports. | | |
0848 | Do the obese deserve to have their healthcare rationed? Mike Thomson reports. | | |
0855 | Most religions hold services of some sort or another. Should humanists do the same? That question is raised in this month's New Humanist magazine by the humanist writer Dave Belden. We speak with him, along with philosopher AC Grayling. | | |
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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 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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