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0607 | Tougher immigration laws are expected to be announced in France today. | | |
0609 | The Likud leader in Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, has ordered the four Cabinet members from his party to resign from the coalition Government: they include the foreign minister, Shylvan Shalom. | | |
0615 | The business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0626 | The sports news with Gary Richardson. | | |
0631 | The education secretary Ruth Kelly is going to have to face the Commons today, to explain the decision which led to some registered sex offenders being cleared by her Department to work in schools. | | |
0633 | The so called EU three, the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany, are meeting later to discuss Iran's nuclear programme. Tehran is expected to be referred to the UN Security Council. | | |
0635 | A BBC investigation into the belief in witchcraft in the African community in this country has identified the pastor involved in a case where a father branded a nine-year-old boy with a steam iron. | | |
0640 | A review of the papers in the UK and Kampala. | | |
0645 | A look at the events of yesterday in parliament. | | |
0655 | An examination of the fire service by the independent Audit Commission concludes that only 47% of fire authorities are performing well. The Audit Commission's head of local government, Frances Done, and Matt Wrack of the Fire Brigades Union, discuss what this means. | | | |  |
0709 | The Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has asked her department to review the cases in which registered sex offenders were cleared to work in schools, and not put on List 99 of those who are banned. Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat education spokesman, will be raising the issue at Education Questions today. | | |
0714 | The South Korean scientist who produced fake papers claiming breakthroughs on stem cell research has apologised and asked for forgiveness. Dr Hwang Woo-suk spoke at a press conference in Seoul this morning. | | |
0718 | More business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0722 | In Russia, men are being told to grab rifles and shoot migratory birds as a way of stemming the spread of bird flu. Senior Veterinary Officer at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Keith Sumption, and Dr Richard Thomas of Birdlife International, talk to the programme. | | |
0726 | The sports news with Gary Richardson. | | |
0735 | Former CIA agent and National Security Council adviser to President Bush, Jack Caravelli, and Dr Hans Blix, the former UN weapons Inspector, discuss the situation in Iran. | | |
0745 | Far away in the Arctic, on the ice-bound island of Spitzbergen, the Norwegian Government is going to hollow out a huge cave. And into it will go a seed bank from the world's food crops, in case we face doomsday. Geoff Hawton from the Global Crop Diversity Trust, tells us more. | | |
0750 | Thought for the Day with Dr Jeevan Singh Deol, lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies. | | |
0755 | The Department of Education is reviewing the cases of people who've been cleared to work in schools, after the revelation that a man who was employed in Norfolk was on the sex offenders register. Shadow education spokesman, David Willets, and Debra Shipley, a former Labour MP, discuss the issue. | | | | |
0810 | A BBC investigation into the belief in witchcraft in the African community in the UK has identified the pastor involved in a case where a father branded a nine year old boy with a steam iron. A former Church elder says he was present when the child was diagnosed as possessed with evil spirits. Angus Stickler reports. | | |
0822 | A remarkable diary by Mozart goes online today at the British Library today, where Chris Banks is head of music collections. | | |
0827 | The sports news with Gary Richardson. | | |
0835 | The man who tried and failed to kill Pope John Paul the Second in St Peter's Square in 1981 has been released from a Turkish jail today. Our Rome correspondent, David Willey, reported on the shooting nearly a quarter of a century ago. | | |
0837 | The government's selling off Qinetiq, a research arm of the MOD which has developed liquid crystal displays and security scanners for the London Underground. We speak to the Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, and Robert Peston, the associate editor of the Sunday Telegraph. | | |
0840 | A business news update with Greg Wood. | | |
0849 | The Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague, speaks about a meeting of European ministers in Berlin today, to discuss Iran. | | |
0855 | Graham Hasting-Evans, acting chief executive at the office of the Children's Commission, talks about the issue of sex offenders working in schools. | | |
0857 | The national tour of the controversial show, Jerry Springer - the Opera, opens in Plymouth at the end of the month. Tonight, at the Theatre Royal in Plymouth, a panel are debating the question of artistic freedom. The founder of the English Shakespeare Company, Michael Bogdanov, and Tony Wilds, the Archdeacon of Plymouth, are on the panel. | | |
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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 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.
(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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