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0709 | Shadow Northern Ireland Secretary David Lidington refutes claims that the Tories have abandoned cross-party cooperation. | | | |  |
0714 | Memorial services are being held across the Indian Ocean for the victims of last year's tsunami. Chris Hogg reports from Thailand. | | |
0721 | Commemorations are also being held in Aceh, Indonesia; the area worst hit by the tsunami last year. | | |
0724 | Sports news with Steve May. | | |
0732 | Many Boxing Day hunts are meeting today, despite the ban introduced this year. We're joined by Chief Executive of the Countryside Alliance Simon Hart and Mike Hobday of the League Against Cruel Sports. | | |
0738 | Endangered species of bats are making a home in military bunkers in Dorset - Zubeida Malik reports. | | |
0746 | Thought for the Day with Rev Dr Alan Billings, Director of the Centre for Ethics and Religion at Lancaster University. | | |
0750 | Minister for International Development Gareth Thomas discusses whether aid donated to the victims of the tsunami has been effectively used. | | | | |
0810 | Amid international protests over "extraordinary rendition" and growing domestic opposition to President Bush, we speak to the new American Ambassador to Britain, Robert Tuttle. | | |
0825 | Sports news with Steve May. | | |
0832 | Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor joins us from Sri Lanka, where he is marking the anniversary of the tsunami. | | |
0846 | Listeners have been responding to the shortlist in our poll on Who Runs Britain? | | |
0851 | Controversial writer Hanif Kureishi discusses his work over the last 20 years. | | |
0855 | Ruth Thompson, a British teacher who was in Sri Lanka when the tsunami hit last year, discusses her decision to leave Britain and work with the survivors trying to rebuild their lives. | | |
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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 who 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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