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0607 | A senior British army officer has said troop withdrawal from Iraq could begin within six months. | | |
0612 | Firefighters are still battling to control the fire at the Buncefield oil depot in Hemel Hempstead. | | |
0615 | Business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0625 | Sport with Garry Richardson. | | |
0632 | The World Trade Organisation talks are about to begin in Hong Kong. | | |
0635 | There are calls for an independent investigation into fraud in the tax credit system. | | |
0639 | Stanley "Tookie" Williams faces execution in the next two hours, after the Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger refused appeals for clemency. | | |
0642 | A review of today's papers in the UK and Chile. | | |
0648 | Yesterday in Parliament with Susan Hulme. | | |
0653 | British Intelligence agents are being accused of involvement in the kidnapping and "psychological torture" of 28 men in Greece during the hunt for the terrorists behind the July 7th bombings. | | | |  |
0709 | Tom Feiden investigates the long term effects of the dense black smoke emitted from the fire at Buncefield, whilst Assistant Chief Constable of Hertfordshire Police, Robert Beckley, has the latest. | | |
0717 | Former Education Secretaries Estelle Morris and David Blunkett are opposing the Prime Minister's proposals for secondary schools. | | |
0720 | Business update with Greg Wood. | | |
0723 | Kim Catcheside reports on the criminal gangs using the identities of thousands of civil servants to defraud the tax credit system. | | |
0727 | Sport with Garry Richardson. | | |
0732 | Pessimism surrounds the opening of the World Trade talks, but who will really suffer if nothing is resolved? EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson joins us in Hong Kong. | | |
0741 | Jon Culshaw contributes to our Christmas poll on who runs Britain? | | |
0747 | Thought for the Day with Elaine Storkey, Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. | | |
0750 | Former Californian gang leader Stanley "Tookie" Williams is about to face execution by lethal injection. Professor Jean Rosenbluth, a former federal prosecutor in LA, and Earl Hutchinson, a political analyst who hosts a weekly talk show, discuss the pleas for clemency. | | | | |
0810 | Andrew Wragg, a father who admitted killing his terminally ill son, has walked free. The Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff Peter Smith and Lord Falconer, Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, discuss the law on mercy killings. | | |
0822 | Should the classic film The Dam Busters be remade, and if so, should it still include Nigger the Dog? George Baker, a member of the original cast, and Jonathan Falconer join us. | | |
0827 | Sport with Garry Richardson. | | |
0835 | Former Director General of the BBC Greg Dyke, Piers Morgan, owner of the Press Gazette and former Mirror Editor, and Amanda Platell, former Sunday Express Editor and Press Secretary to William Hague, discuss whether it is the media who really run Britain. | | |
0850 | Garry Richardson has the latest on the EU ruling in the Marks & Spencer taxation case. | | |
0853 | Sheila Maclean, Professor of Law and Ethics in Medicine at Glasgow University, and John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, discuss the implications of the Wragg case on the value of life in our society. | | |
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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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