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0607 | Presidential elections are being held in Haiti today; the first since the removal of Jean Bertrand Aristide two years ago. | | |
0609 | BT has revealed a marked increase in the attempts to access child pornography on the internet. | | |
0615 | Business news with Greg Wood. | | |
0626 | Sport with Garry Richardson. | | |
0632 | The government looks set to compromise with Labour rebels over education reforms. | | |
0634 | Omar Kayam, the protester who dressed as a suicide bomber over the weekend, has been revealed as a convicted drug dealer. | | |
0637 | The spring Synod of the Church of England is attempting to reach a compromise over women bishops. | | |
0640 | New checks are being introduced on care workers who look after the vulnerable. | | |
0643 | A review of today's papers in the UK and Lebanon. | | |
0649 | Yesterday in Parliament with David Wilby. | | |
0654 | Protests are being held in France today, over proposals for new contracts for young workers. | | | |  |
0709 | Shadow Education Secretary David Willets explains the Tory's stance on the amended education reforms, while former Home Office Minister, John Denham, tells us whether Blair's concessions have won the support of rebels. | | |
0715 | The Rt Rev Christopher Hill, Bishop of Guildford, and Dr John Broadhurst, Bishop of Fulham, on the proposals for a compromise over the issue of women bishops. | | |
0719 | Business with Greg Wood. | | |
0722 | Although none of the anti-cartoon demonstrators outside the Danish Embassy were arrested over the weekend, two men who were protesting against the protests were. Andrew Hosken reports. | | |
0727 | Sport with Garry Richardson. | | |
0731 | Care Services Minister Liam Byrne and Gary Fitzgerald, Chief Executive of Action on Elder Abuse, discuss the new proposals for checks on care workers. | | |
0738 | Nicola Stanbridge reports on the preponderance of art displayed in public spaces; has it improved the public's appreciation of art, or lead to a reduction in quality? | | |
0745 | Thought for the Day with Elaine Storkey - President of Tear Fund. | | |
0750 | The First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff Sir Alan West speaks to us on the day of his retirement. | | | | |
0810 | Education Secretary Ruth Kelly discusses the concessions the government is making to their controversial education reforms, in a bid to win over Labour rebels. | | |
0822 | Napier University is launching an appeal to find missing issues of the Hydra, a hospital magazine that both Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon wrote for during their stay at Craiglockhart Hospital. | | |
0827 | Sport with Garry Richardson. | | |
0831 | Lord Browne, Chief Executive of BP, defends their rising profits. | | |
0840 | Business with Greg Wood. | | |
0845 | The former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey calls for moderation in the row surrounding the Danish cartoons. | | |
0849 | On the hundredth anniversary of their last electoral victory, Lord Kenneth Morgan and Andrew Roberts discuss the Liberals. | | |
0854 | Tony Blair has had to concede to Labour rebels in order to avoid another potential defeat in the Commons. Philip Cowley of Nottingham University and Matthew D'Ancona of the Telegraph discuss the rebellion. | | |
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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.
| |  | The nominations for the Oscars were announced yesterday, and The Constant Gardener is tipped for a place on the shortlist. It stars Ralph Fiennes who picked up an Evening Standard Film Award this week for his role in the film. Polly Billington spoke him and to the author, John le Carre, about the film and its chances at the Oscars. (31/01/06) | | | | 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. | | |
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